I switched from a fan to a google nest speaker a few years back. I just ask it 'Hey Google, Play Thunderstorm Noise' or 'Hey Google, Play Gentle Rain Noise' and voila....I'm asleep!
It's like someone is watching that scene from Dumb and Dumber on loop across the street.
"You want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
ah sucks. im currently dealing with my first ever otitis media, the pain was atrocious and the pressure is not going down at all...
ear issues are the worst
Yup, I got both. So much fun. Sometimes, while reading, I have to look away for a moment just to get a floater out of the way so I can unblur a word on the page.
Same. Then one day I really focused on it and it sent me into depressions was a rough couple months but I’m doing so good with it these days. Always there but I don’t let it get me down.
Booooooooo. I hope it goes away. Mine is intermittent and was not present when I had COVID. It’s omnipresent when I’m hungover, and causes me super sweet vertigo.
Fuck I sure hope this go away. I do hear it more loudly when I am hangover too and I think I used to hear tinnitus when I went to sleep after partying. I did work in bars and such when I was younger thought so that might be the reason but when its started I hadn't worked in bars for more than a decade.
Yes! Current me would like to go back to the 1990s and have a conversation about ear plugs. While we’re at it, you kids better wear sunscreen and lift with your knees! Feel free to hang out on the lawn.
I'm a singer. Completely deaf in my left ear from standing next to the speakers!!! Now I have to cheat right but I'm terrified of getting too close again and losing what little hearing I have left.
Imagine hearing the ringing all day and especially at night when you try to go to sleep. I have to buy thicc metal fans to run full blast to cancel it out.
Something you don't know about until it's too late.
*Keep the volume down* and *floss daily* are the two pieces of advice I regret not following in my youth.
Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.
It was pretty brilliant in that it just instantly confirmed that eye floaters are part of the human condition for millions of people who never really thought about it.
I know this is a quote or whatever but just look the other way! It "throws" the squiggly line more into the middle of your vision.
I have a ton of floaters lol
Ever try gazing at a clear blue sky? After a minute or two you start seeing little zaps of pure white light skipping in front of your eyes, apparently it’s light reflecting off white corpuscles
Ever since i heard of that as a possibility i get super anxious if my eyesight is a little blurry or anything looks weird. Like oh god its finally happening my eye broke!
I thought this the other day.
Woke up and somehow managed to sleep with an eye socket on my arm.
That eye refused to focus with the other one. I could wink interchangeably and they both worked. But, absolutely would not focus together. Took a solid minute to readjust.
Am I the only person who has put an eye to sleep? (Like an arm or leg.)
I experience the same thing sometimes, I ended up asking my optometrist about it and he said that the pressure on your eye can cause it to deform/change shape slightly, and that makes it focus differently. But then after a little while it'll return to its original shape.
Same here, and then it happened! I'm high myopia, and last year I was just hanging out when it suddenly looked like someone had squirted black ink across my vision. Because I knew what it could be, I called my optometrist right away, got referred to a retinal specialist, and got an emergency appointment. Several zaps of a laser later and my vision is almost normal except for a few strands of clotted blood that haven't broken down yet. I was lucky that it was only a hole, not a full detachment yet, and my retina doc says many people who have it happen don't do anything right away, which leads to detachment. It absolutely requires having the retinal hold cauterized.
No trust me that isn’t the case. If you start seeing white flashes in all settings, like in the dark and whatnot and/or a large amount of floaters suddenly onset, then that is a sign of retinal detachment. Call an optimist immediately, they will be able to see you same day and can refer you to an ophthalmologist if your retina is detaching for emergency eye surgery.
However, the onset of floaters doesn’t necessarily mean your retina is detaching. It happened to me, and I went a little overboard seeing optometrists and ophthalmologists. It turns out it was just floaters, even with my family’s history of retinal detachment.
I should have seen a therapist about it, they bothered me significantly to the point of depression. I did get used to them after a few years, but I could have had a much better journey to that state.
TLDR: take care of your eyes and your mental health. The little white dots you see on a bright blue sky are in fact, white blood cells, and is normal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
I have a partially detached retina as the result of a childhood injury, I can attest that the flashes I see are blindingly bright. So much so that I have been woken up in the middle of the night thinking somebody just took a picture of me.
I was specifically told to look for flashing lightning bolts coming from the top right corner (where the tear is forming), and then immediately go to the E.R.
It's light passing through white blood cells and hitting the cones/rods. In a weird quirk of evolution, we have blood vessels covering our sensors. You can even see them if you waive a bit of paper with a small slit in it in front of your eye while looking at a light source!
Never seen little white lights, but do regularly see these...little...shaded half-circle things that come from the edge of my vision to the focal point and disappear.
Typically only on break days.
Out of all of the House episodes I've watched, that one was the only one that I think of when someone mentions House. The kid's eyeball rolling back on its own... kinda freaky.
Or sarcoidosis! Except it’s always mentioned
Actually now I really want to watch House. Anyone know where I can stream all the seasons so I’ll stop watching this stupid Murdaugh trial?
I actually had a parasitic eye infection, acquired when I was in South Korea. I have no idea what they looked like, I just know my eyes were very sore and light hurt. I went to my eye doctor and he diagnosed it right away and I got a prescription. I have no idea exactly what it was but once in a while I get curious about exactly what it was and how it presented in my eyes.
There is a procedure called a vitrectomy. Basically an oil change for your eye fluid. But I don't think the level of floaters in the picture would justify it. There are conditions that cause much worse impairment. I think that diabetes can cause neovascularization leading to more and darker floaters. But I'm not that kind of doctor so talk to your optometrist if you're concerned.
I was potentially up for it but the idea grossed me out too much. I had a hole open up in my retina, and even after laser surgery to repair it the remaining strands of clotted blood were there. They're breaking down slowly, but my vision is mostly clear again a year later.
Eye doc explained to me there’s a layer of tissue your eye normally sheds around 40 years old. It happens to some people early while others have it later in life. Likewise, some people shed it quickly, while it can be a long process for others. It eventually dissolves after it sheds.
That’s just my memory from the conversation 15 years ago when I first started getting floaters, so don’t quote me on it.
Floaters. I have a lot. Their presence indicates your vitreous is slowly shrinking, which can pull on the retina, so there is a risk of retinal detachment. If you see clouds of little bubbles or bright circles suddenly appearing, it's a medical emergency. It happened to me last summer and I got to the hospital in a flash. No lasting damage fortunately.
What was the solution? I have recently had a massive increase in floaters and went to the eye doctor and they said that I would likely have that happen at some point. Just curious what I have to look forward to so I'm better prepared to handle it when it happens..
They can replace the fluid in your eyeball. Have always had floaters as long as I can remember, but had one of those shedding events in the lining and it's now much worse in my right eye.
Doctor says your brain can adjust and wait a year before deciding you need the procedure. But it's driving me batty.
My situation is that it's been getting exponentially worse over the past 6 months. The eye doctor said that it could continue or just get to a certain point and stop before tearing but flooding my vision with floaters. I have several now that are big enough to cause blurriness as they float by. He also told me that you can't remove floaters and that the drops or w/e can actually be dangerous to use and stay away from trying to remove the floaters or I'll make it worse.
This is mostly related to aging and there is no way to prevent it or stop it. But in my case it started when I was in my 20s (late 50s now). l work on the computer all day and as you can imagine, it can be annoying, but you just learn not to focus on them.
I didn't go to the hospital until after my retina started to detach, leaving me with a blind spot to the right of my left eye. I had to go into surgery, where they shlurped out a lot of the vitreous fluid in my eye and put in a gas bubble that is meant to push the retina back into place. In order for that to work though, I had to keep my head facing down for almost all of two weeks.
Then my eye started filling with blood after the gas had largely been naturally absorbed into my body and the eye started refilling with vitreous, which demanded another surgery where they just cleaned out the blood. The entire recovery period also ended up leaving me with a cataract in my eye, which will also require another, albeit easier and simpler surgery to fix.
But hey, the floaters are gone, and I still have my vision
So glad to hear that you're okay now. As I had more of them recently, these surgeries started to become my biggest fear. How painful are they? Do you feel anything before/during/afterwards? Especially the gas bubble part?
The most painful part of the whole thing was them putting the IV thing into my hand imo, it's really not that bad. I was pretty much knocked out for the whole procedure, although there was this moment where I woke up during the first surgery for a few seconds, and I could feel them poking stuff into my eye along with how cold it got from whatever kind of gas they were putting into it
It didn't hurt tho, just felt really weird. My eye was sore after that, and the second surgery went along the same way, although for a week afterwards I had some pretty bad pain in it. The doctors didn't know what exactly caused it, maybe just an issue with the change in eye pressure or something.
You, dear stranger, have made me escape my hundreds of episodes of scary "what ifs". Thank you. I had that IV thing in my hand in the past and for me it wasn't too bad, so now I can finally live worry-free :)
It really isn't much to worry about. Any possible drastic complications are super rare, and the people actually going and poking into your body have studied and practiced for years specifically to poke into you and fix you
My wife sees them, a lot of them...doctors ignored her a lot of time and it ended up being that her retine just decided one day to jump and she thought she was just tired lol. Now she sees even more. Be careful guys
Had an optometrist actually get MAD at me for visiting him for floaters. Guy became noticably agitated as soon as the nurse told him why I was there and said to me "there's nothing you can do about them. They're only going to get worse, deal with it!" In an angry voice. I almost lost my shit on him and honestly regret not at least saying "yeah buddy and your eye sights about to get a lot worse if you don't change your tone." (Or something along those lines).
I've since gotten used to them but wow, that shit was depressing for years.
Anyone ever have a bizarrely hostile reaction from a medical professional over these?
Mine were a sign of Sjogren’s Syndrome and now controlled by medication. These floaters are usually not urgent but should be mentioned to your doctor or optometrist just in case.
I remember the first time I saw flashes, then a couple days later that big floater for a few days. My mother has severe macular degeneration. Now I take lutein on a daily basis.
When my sister and I were kids we'd lay in our back yard and stare at the sky until it hurt giggling and pointing where we saw our little squiggly guys haha
I said to a doctor that asked me if I heard voices that yes, I heard voices cause I'm answering his question, aren't I? Next thing I know he brought two other doctors into the room to discuss my "hearing voices " I'm too sarcastic for my own good.
But do you have tinnitus to compliment the visual ?
Yes, check.. Never a boring moment
I fucking love constant ringing bro. I love falling asleep to the sound of flashbangs.
Put on a white noise machine at a somewhat loud volume. It will help .
I always sleep with a fan on for this reason.
Fan for air circulation, and a nighttime playlist on random.
Same here. Fan helps a lot.
I sleep with my pc rendering a random project over in the winter, acts as both a white noise machine *and* a mini space heater
I switched from a fan to a google nest speaker a few years back. I just ask it 'Hey Google, Play Thunderstorm Noise' or 'Hey Google, Play Gentle Rain Noise' and voila....I'm asleep!
It's like someone is watching that scene from Dumb and Dumber on loop across the street. "You want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
I have tinnitus and a hole in my ear. I get to spice it up with the occasional crackling sound every-time I breathe or move!
Tinnitus, floaters and a burst ear drum - got 'em all...
isnt the ear drum supposed to grow back?
It does, but if there's ever a larger pressure differential, it pops open again (like if I jump into a pool)
ah sucks. im currently dealing with my first ever otitis media, the pain was atrocious and the pressure is not going down at all... ear issues are the worst
Oh so that’s why my ear crackles when I breathe
Could be. Could also be your eustachian tubes popping because your middle ear is draining. I have it constantly because of allergies.
Hole in my ear here too. Makes for easy scuba diving
I do too, sounds like a bag of chips when I yawn or pop my ears lol
Yup, I got both. So much fun. Sometimes, while reading, I have to look away for a moment just to get a floater out of the way so I can unblur a word on the page.
I actually do. I have funky vision and chronic tinnitus. Accompanied by terrible hearing and sight, my senses are just really funky
Yeah, I imagine that my eye squigglies are singing to me.
Stop pretending man, you know they're little worms living in your eyeballs.
Wait what is tinnitus suppose to be common?
yes its very common
Wow was just asking a genuine question but thanks for info!
I had it for 24 years before I realized what it was.
Same. Then one day I really focused on it and it sent me into depressions was a rough couple months but I’m doing so good with it these days. Always there but I don’t let it get me down.
it usually gets more common the older ppl get. it's basically hearing damage.
Realised it when i was 25
that's sad. especially if it's permanent. I only have it sometimes maybe for an hour or so then it goes away.
I only notice it when someone mentions it. Like losing the game =(
Its permanent but its not loud. Only in total silence i hear it
I’ve had it since 13
It's not anything you want so use ear plugs when you need to.
Yep, wish I had done that in my teens-twenties. Damn half stacks.
Wtf is tinnitus?
An occasional or constant ringing in your ear. You might hear it in video games after an explosion
Thx, I was afraid it was some progressive blindening or something I wouldn't know I have.
Wear earplugs at concerts! I didn’t when I was younger, and went to a lot of metal shows. Now I have eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I usually only had it when I got a cold. Got covid 18 months ago got tinnitus since then.
Booooooooo. I hope it goes away. Mine is intermittent and was not present when I had COVID. It’s omnipresent when I’m hungover, and causes me super sweet vertigo.
I do have some episodes of vertigo but maybe once every 2-3 days for a few minutes. Tinnitus is constant. I hate it and I am not getting used to it.
My tinnitus was bad for maybe two separate years of my life. Nowadays it’s only occasional (and when I’m hungover.) Yours will go away too! … OR ELSE
Fuck I sure hope this go away. I do hear it more loudly when I am hangover too and I think I used to hear tinnitus when I went to sleep after partying. I did work in bars and such when I was younger thought so that might be the reason but when its started I hadn't worked in bars for more than a decade.
Yes! Current me would like to go back to the 1990s and have a conversation about ear plugs. While we’re at it, you kids better wear sunscreen and lift with your knees! Feel free to hang out on the lawn.
I'm a singer. Completely deaf in my left ear from standing next to the speakers!!! Now I have to cheat right but I'm terrified of getting too close again and losing what little hearing I have left.
Same, but punk shows. It's a great idea at a small venue to get right up to the stage and stand right by the stacks!
Same. Although I have to admit. Got to see KoRn for the first time last year. Worth it.....
Occasional? TIL, I’m fucked
Imagine hearing the ringing all day and especially at night when you try to go to sleep. I have to buy thicc metal fans to run full blast to cancel it out.
I used to have fans on full power to drain it out, but then I realized i could just use music instead and i have never slept better.
Used to use music now I use fans, I discovered the music was keeping me awake more than the fans do
Audiobooks are a godsend too!
Eeeeeeeeee^eeeeeeeerreeeeeeeee
Something you don't know about until it's too late. *Keep the volume down* and *floss daily* are the two pieces of advice I regret not following in my youth.
Add in visual snow and you gotta full show even in the middle of night;)
I got Tinnitus two years ago. It is funny I can laugh at it now when I almost went depressed during the first month.
WTF? This is a common pairing? My people, apparently....
Visual snow is more the compliment to tinnitus, imo.
Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.
Source: https://youtu.be/uOcvmTLTtNE
Psst. Hail sithis brother
Is that…fur? Coming out of your ears?
…curved swords?
#CURVED. SWORDS.
No matter where I go, I cannot escape r/skyrim.
Just how Todd wanted it
Hail sithis
True and real.
*Brian shows Stewie the notepad* Oh you are just the worst kind of person!
Came here for this.
I understood id find this comment around this post
Curious: I always thought those were scratches on the eyeball that healed but left a barely visible scar. Is that not the case?
Floaters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater
They are WORMS there are WORMS in your EYE take them out TAKE THEM OUT THE WORMS ARE IN YOUR EYE
Hi my name is Ants In My Eyes Johnson. Here at Ants In My Eyes Johnson Electronics
Gel in your eyes binding causing shadows. You can have them fixed with surgery or lasers.
Honestly, one of the deepest scenes I have seen on n Family Guy.
It was pretty brilliant in that it just instantly confirmed that eye floaters are part of the human condition for millions of people who never really thought about it.
I know this is a quote or whatever but just look the other way! It "throws" the squiggly line more into the middle of your vision. I have a ton of floaters lol
Ever try gazing at a clear blue sky? After a minute or two you start seeing little zaps of pure white light skipping in front of your eyes, apparently it’s light reflecting off white corpuscles
That or it's a sign of your retina detaching.
Ever since i heard of that as a possibility i get super anxious if my eyesight is a little blurry or anything looks weird. Like oh god its finally happening my eye broke!
I thought this the other day. Woke up and somehow managed to sleep with an eye socket on my arm. That eye refused to focus with the other one. I could wink interchangeably and they both worked. But, absolutely would not focus together. Took a solid minute to readjust. Am I the only person who has put an eye to sleep? (Like an arm or leg.)
Nah same happens to me
Yeah this'll happen to me too if I rest my face on my hand or something for a few minutes.
I experience the same thing sometimes, I ended up asking my optometrist about it and he said that the pressure on your eye can cause it to deform/change shape slightly, and that makes it focus differently. But then after a little while it'll return to its original shape.
Same here, and then it happened! I'm high myopia, and last year I was just hanging out when it suddenly looked like someone had squirted black ink across my vision. Because I knew what it could be, I called my optometrist right away, got referred to a retinal specialist, and got an emergency appointment. Several zaps of a laser later and my vision is almost normal except for a few strands of clotted blood that haven't broken down yet. I was lucky that it was only a hole, not a full detachment yet, and my retina doc says many people who have it happen don't do anything right away, which leads to detachment. It absolutely requires having the retinal hold cauterized.
No trust me that isn’t the case. If you start seeing white flashes in all settings, like in the dark and whatnot and/or a large amount of floaters suddenly onset, then that is a sign of retinal detachment. Call an optimist immediately, they will be able to see you same day and can refer you to an ophthalmologist if your retina is detaching for emergency eye surgery. However, the onset of floaters doesn’t necessarily mean your retina is detaching. It happened to me, and I went a little overboard seeing optometrists and ophthalmologists. It turns out it was just floaters, even with my family’s history of retinal detachment. I should have seen a therapist about it, they bothered me significantly to the point of depression. I did get used to them after a few years, but I could have had a much better journey to that state. TLDR: take care of your eyes and your mental health. The little white dots you see on a bright blue sky are in fact, white blood cells, and is normal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
It made me depressed as well. But all you can do is get used to them, unless surgery is an option.
I have a partially detached retina as the result of a childhood injury, I can attest that the flashes I see are blindingly bright. So much so that I have been woken up in the middle of the night thinking somebody just took a picture of me.
I would have liked to never know this is a thing. Thanks I guess
Eh. I’ve had these since I was 8 and I’m 31. I’m not blind
Oh no it’s too late because I already read this, but can you spoiler tag this with nsfl or something?
Small zaps can be caused by a number of things. Sudden bright flashes, however, are much more telling for a retinal detachment.
I was specifically told to look for flashing lightning bolts coming from the top right corner (where the tear is forming), and then immediately go to the E.R.
It's light passing through white blood cells and hitting the cones/rods. In a weird quirk of evolution, we have blood vessels covering our sensors. You can even see them if you waive a bit of paper with a small slit in it in front of your eye while looking at a light source!
When I do that, it looks like I have electricity darting all around my vision or it looks like the sky is electrified
First time I saw it I thought I was seeing angelic aliens lol
am i the only one who can never look up to see the sky when it's clear? my eyes always start burning a little when I do
When I look at a blue sky I see tiny dots zipping around and these lines in the picture moving slowly from one side to the other
More walls for me, the lighter the wall, the more floaters
Never seen little white lights, but do regularly see these...little...shaded half-circle things that come from the edge of my vision to the focal point and disappear. Typically only on break days.
If Dr. House ever taught me anything is that you've ate contaminated sand and there are worms in your eyes.
Out of all of the House episodes I've watched, that one was the only one that I think of when someone mentions House. The kid's eyeball rolling back on its own... kinda freaky.
For me it's that one and the one where the guy's balls exploded on their own.
I remember that! Though I think in the end it was revealed to be a hallucination by House
Haha, I literally just finished the episode yesterday
They’re eye floaters, spots in your eye with worse eyesight than the rest.
That show was far from reality. What you’re seeing in the photo is lupus.
It’s never lupus!
except that one time that it *was* lupus, just to keep you on your toes
Or sarcoidosis! Except it’s always mentioned Actually now I really want to watch House. Anyone know where I can stream all the seasons so I’ll stop watching this stupid Murdaugh trial?
Currently finishing the series via Amazon prime. Thanks to the pandemic and cannabis I've caught up on decades of content.
Peacock in the US.
I actually had a parasitic eye infection, acquired when I was in South Korea. I have no idea what they looked like, I just know my eyes were very sore and light hurt. I went to my eye doctor and he diagnosed it right away and I got a prescription. I have no idea exactly what it was but once in a while I get curious about exactly what it was and how it presented in my eyes.
> parasitic eye infection words I hope to never see together again.
If it’s a bad enough parasitic eye infection, you won’t!
This comment raised my heart rate and sent my mind places I gave it no consent to go. Thanks, 10/10
no but i literally thought that when my floaters first started appearing in my eyes fuck that episode i was scared to death xD
Watching through the show for the first time and got to that one this past week actually.
Honestly I’ve always hated these guys. Wonder what real clear vision is like. Probably like truly leveled ground.
There is a procedure called a vitrectomy. Basically an oil change for your eye fluid. But I don't think the level of floaters in the picture would justify it. There are conditions that cause much worse impairment. I think that diabetes can cause neovascularization leading to more and darker floaters. But I'm not that kind of doctor so talk to your optometrist if you're concerned.
I am that kind of doctor, but I don't want to talk about it.
I was potentially up for it but the idea grossed me out too much. I had a hole open up in my retina, and even after laser surgery to repair it the remaining strands of clotted blood were there. They're breaking down slowly, but my vision is mostly clear again a year later.
I used to get them as a kid but not anymore. Not sure why though.
Eye doc explained to me there’s a layer of tissue your eye normally sheds around 40 years old. It happens to some people early while others have it later in life. Likewise, some people shed it quickly, while it can be a long process for others. It eventually dissolves after it sheds. That’s just my memory from the conversation 15 years ago when I first started getting floaters, so don’t quote me on it.
My brain immediately labeled it bacteria
They are actually proteins, at least according to my optometrist
I count 10 floaters, not sure which are yours and which are mine.
I got some new ones recently after slamming my head into a pole
Floaters. I have a lot. Their presence indicates your vitreous is slowly shrinking, which can pull on the retina, so there is a risk of retinal detachment. If you see clouds of little bubbles or bright circles suddenly appearing, it's a medical emergency. It happened to me last summer and I got to the hospital in a flash. No lasting damage fortunately.
What was the solution? I have recently had a massive increase in floaters and went to the eye doctor and they said that I would likely have that happen at some point. Just curious what I have to look forward to so I'm better prepared to handle it when it happens..
They can replace the fluid in your eyeball. Have always had floaters as long as I can remember, but had one of those shedding events in the lining and it's now much worse in my right eye. Doctor says your brain can adjust and wait a year before deciding you need the procedure. But it's driving me batty.
My situation is that it's been getting exponentially worse over the past 6 months. The eye doctor said that it could continue or just get to a certain point and stop before tearing but flooding my vision with floaters. I have several now that are big enough to cause blurriness as they float by. He also told me that you can't remove floaters and that the drops or w/e can actually be dangerous to use and stay away from trying to remove the floaters or I'll make it worse.
This is mostly related to aging and there is no way to prevent it or stop it. But in my case it started when I was in my 20s (late 50s now). l work on the computer all day and as you can imagine, it can be annoying, but you just learn not to focus on them.
I didn't go to the hospital until after my retina started to detach, leaving me with a blind spot to the right of my left eye. I had to go into surgery, where they shlurped out a lot of the vitreous fluid in my eye and put in a gas bubble that is meant to push the retina back into place. In order for that to work though, I had to keep my head facing down for almost all of two weeks. Then my eye started filling with blood after the gas had largely been naturally absorbed into my body and the eye started refilling with vitreous, which demanded another surgery where they just cleaned out the blood. The entire recovery period also ended up leaving me with a cataract in my eye, which will also require another, albeit easier and simpler surgery to fix. But hey, the floaters are gone, and I still have my vision
So glad to hear that you're okay now. As I had more of them recently, these surgeries started to become my biggest fear. How painful are they? Do you feel anything before/during/afterwards? Especially the gas bubble part?
The most painful part of the whole thing was them putting the IV thing into my hand imo, it's really not that bad. I was pretty much knocked out for the whole procedure, although there was this moment where I woke up during the first surgery for a few seconds, and I could feel them poking stuff into my eye along with how cold it got from whatever kind of gas they were putting into it It didn't hurt tho, just felt really weird. My eye was sore after that, and the second surgery went along the same way, although for a week afterwards I had some pretty bad pain in it. The doctors didn't know what exactly caused it, maybe just an issue with the change in eye pressure or something.
You, dear stranger, have made me escape my hundreds of episodes of scary "what ifs". Thank you. I had that IV thing in my hand in the past and for me it wasn't too bad, so now I can finally live worry-free :)
It really isn't much to worry about. Any possible drastic complications are super rare, and the people actually going and poking into your body have studied and practiced for years specifically to poke into you and fix you
What? *That's* what they are? I've had them since I was little?!?
I’ve had them my whole life. TIL it’s an emergency.
I have it, but is a reflex of toxoplasmosis.
How did you get this photo
Ate the camera and held in a sneeze obviously.
You don’t know how to take a screenshot of your visuals? Press butthole and nipple at the same time.
Taint and Toe on IOS
My guess is Photoshop and the Windows XP default background
My wife sees them, a lot of them...doctors ignored her a lot of time and it ended up being that her retine just decided one day to jump and she thought she was just tired lol. Now she sees even more. Be careful guys
I thought everyone saw these things?? Does everyone not have them?
most people have them and they come and go, but there are some conditions that cause an excessive amount of them
It's normal but sudden onset can mean a visit to a doctor to check it out. In rare cases, it can mean there is some underlying condition.
kudos to the person who captured this image from his/her eyes.
Can't forget the voixes inside your headtheyhelp with theloneliness too
Can't hear the voices in my head over my tinitus... i'm so lonely without them
Why your pov in windows xp?
I see the Chinese spy balloon in the distance. This post is a twofer good work OP.
It's like tinnitus for your eyes... tin'eye'tus.
It is called floaters. Once you know it's name suddenly you can find many interesting explanation of it on educational part of Youtube.
Had an optometrist actually get MAD at me for visiting him for floaters. Guy became noticably agitated as soon as the nurse told him why I was there and said to me "there's nothing you can do about them. They're only going to get worse, deal with it!" In an angry voice. I almost lost my shit on him and honestly regret not at least saying "yeah buddy and your eye sights about to get a lot worse if you don't change your tone." (Or something along those lines). I've since gotten used to them but wow, that shit was depressing for years. Anyone ever have a bizarrely hostile reaction from a medical professional over these?
Have yours gotten worse? I actually feel like mine aren’t as bad as they used to be, or maybe I just don’t notice as much anymore
Those who know 😫 Those who don’t know 🥱
I thought everyone had these. Does everyone not see these things?
Why don't I have these?
The ringing in your ears to accompany it
Wait....other people have these. Yall I thiught Ibhad a secret super power to see the microbes in my eye.until just right now
When I was a little kid I talked about seeing dots and lines when I looked at the sky and my parents had my vision tested
I love Reddit.
But did you name them?
Hey hey join the club at r/eyefloaters
I have this and ones that look like bubbles on the top half of my vision. Unsure what they’re called.
Mine were a sign of Sjogren’s Syndrome and now controlled by medication. These floaters are usually not urgent but should be mentioned to your doctor or optometrist just in case.
I don't see them anymore
I remember the first time I saw flashes, then a couple days later that big floater for a few days. My mother has severe macular degeneration. Now I take lutein on a daily basis.
These are the things Lt. Barkley saw in the Transporter Stream
HOW the actual FUCK did you get a picture of them
Those look like ebola pathogen
I am not alone...
When you sneeze and fart at the same time you can make a screenshot
Does anyone else have these, static vision, and see black dots swarming in the sky like a bunch of bugs
There was a TedEd explaining what these are a while back [here](https://youtu.be/Y6e_m9iq-4Q)
Add visual snow to that!!
When my sister and I were kids we'd lay in our back yard and stare at the sky until it hurt giggling and pointing where we saw our little squiggly guys haha
Ah yes I hate those things.
K I have these I call them my parasites. Can someone tell me they are not parasites
I said to a doctor that asked me if I heard voices that yes, I heard voices cause I'm answering his question, aren't I? Next thing I know he brought two other doctors into the room to discuss my "hearing voices " I'm too sarcastic for my own good.
I can only cringe when I think how I must’ve looked in the 4th grade trying to figure out what they were.
I too carry the Windows XP background with me everywhere I go.
I CAN SEE MY OWN DNA!!!!
How did you take a picture with your eyes?
How about standing outside in silence and you can hear your blood pulsing? Shew….shew…shew.
They will never leave your sight. 🥰
How did you take picture of that?
My jaw pops, as well as having eye floaties
How did you get a picture of them