Eye floaters drove me nuts, please if anyone can give me reassurance that my floaters will stop bothering me so much i'd be so grateful

[feren]

I'm 21 years old, not pregnant. I have eye floater since March 2019, only in the right eye, and really annoying, they irritate the life out of me. Already check to optician and he said its only floater dont need to worry. But really felt very desperate, i search on google they said floaters only apppear on older people but im just 21??!! Really make me sad and sad :( I see black stringy line, maybe there are 2-3 long lines, and some spots or clouds always move every time I move my eyes. Very depressed. Sometimes feeling life has no meaning because every day I cry and despair. I dont know people who has them and feel im alone in this. Please for anyone who has eye floaters and is used to them and is not bothered at all please tell me your story, i need that story to give me hope that I can do it too. please share your stories, IT WILL HELP ME A LOT!! And please no negative stories, only positive ones !! Thankyouu .

Anyone who have eye floaters, and get used to them and not bothered by them at all please share me your experience. I desperately really need that kind of story..

I've had one in my right eye since I was 13 so definitely not something only old people get. Optician not concerned either.

I'm only conscious of it now because of this thread and it's made me aware of it. Day to day I no longer see it. Occasionally if I'm looking at something plain white I'll notice it but it doesn't interfere with my life.

@Bootsuit
How is your floater look like? Also look like stringy lines? Spots? I just developed them for 4 months, everytime im outside under bright sun all i could see were the floatersAnd its pissed me off.

I've had them for years, and I know how irritating they can be. I suspect that at first your eyes try to focus on them, but can't. After a bit your brain learns how to filter them out, so it does get better, as it has with me.

@TheSilveryPussycat yes you know what i mean! Do yo still get annoyed by them now??

Always worth getting a second opinion if they hang around, also there is a link to cholesterol I seem to remember, may be worth checking... If in doubt get some decent refreshing eye drops, see if that helps.

@EvelineUK yes i've checked , i dont have cholesterol or diabetes. Optician said its only floaters , and he also gave me eye drops but he already said the eye drops was not for eliminating floaters. Do you also have experince with eye floaters?

I think if you are crying and despairing even though the optician is not concerned thete is any abnormality, you should talk to a GP and tell them that. It sounds as though you may have oversensitised yourself because of the understandable worry and annoyance.

You can probably be helped to learn to cope with the floaters and to reduce your anxiety and distress, either by a relaxation technique or something to turn down your 'vigilance' level. I got hypersensitive about a quite different non-issue for a while and antidepressant medication really helped.

Yeh I get them once in a while when I've been doing a lot of computer work, generally don't last more than a week though...

@feren this is your second thread on this in the last few days, you've had lots of advice and lots of people tell you it's normal and that you'll get used to it.

I think at this point you should seek GP advice for your anxiety about this.

Only very occasionally. When I was on a certain medication they seemed to increase a little, but the meds made me hyper attentive to my perception of my body, so it might have been that. They hardly bother me at all now. Give it time, it will get better.

Oh and yes I have had floaters since childhood but they interest me rather than bother me. Sometimes one wanders into the middle of my field of vision which is slightly annoying when trying to look at small text eg on a phone screen, but they always wander off again.

I’ve had one for a few years - first I thought it was a fly and I tried to waft it away! I got used to it and I barely notice it now, I have to concentrate to find it - oh, there it is

I think silverycat and lwmommy make good points

I've had one for a good few years now, couple of spots in my right eye. Occasionally I notice it and think it's a fly or something but then realise it's a floater! I don't notice it otherwise and it doesn't annoy me.

Had loads for years. I’m short sighted and apparently it’s more common then - or just that we focus on them more, I don’t really know.
Had them since I was in my twenties, now in 50s and hardly ever notice them. Only in bright sunlight and they don’t bother me at all.
Do you usually find you get anxious and upset easily? Is this worth looking into?

I have loads but I am very short sighted and I know that means I'm more likely to get them. Don't feel anxious OP...the brain DOES learn to ignore them in time. Mine are worse when I drink alcohol and since cutting that out they seem to not be as bad. I was reading that dandelion root, liquorice and blueberry supplements can help. Haven't tried them but might do!

I think you may have posted this already on MN Feren?

You’re obviously very anxious. Go and see your gp.
I have loads and so does my mums. She’s 80 and had very good eyes.

@Lwmommy yes i hv decided to go to see my GP next monday. I hope i can get help from my GP.

Good idea. Make sure you let them know how anxious and distressed you are feeling, and ask for help with that.

@candycane222 yes, i will. I hope i can feel better soon. How is your experiences with floaters? Have you ever been annoyed or bothered by them esp under bright sunlight?

I mentioned above - that although I notice them, now my optician has told me they are normal and nothing to worry about, they don't bother me. I sometimes watch them if there is nothing more interesting to look at! But otherwise they are only a slight pain when they wander right into the middle of my field of vision, as they can make reading very small text a bit disconcerting. But they always wander off again after a day or two.

A friend of mine had cataract surgery which changed her vision dramatically, and her floaters were very noticeable to her all of a sudden, and it did bother her for a few weeks till she got used to them.

I think if you understand that it is just a function of the fact that your eye is made of lots of layers of jelly and fluid, inside and out, and floaters are completely natural, it might make them easier to live with? I do believe everyone has some, it's totally normal.

@candycane222
Yes, i think my problem is "acceptance". I still cant accept the floaters. Cause i always had clear vision, never even had a little dot of floaters. And suddenly these all black lines and black dots appear out of nowhere. I hope i can get used to them one day

I had exactly what you're describing, for months, and they drove me crazy. Eventually they went away, but this seemed to be when I was more accepting of them, rather than getting frustrated by them. I hope yours go away soon.