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Eye Floaters - Anyone Else Have Them?

fuji

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I thought they only appeared when you were high. I've never seen them when I wasn't high.
 

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Get them sometimes, but worst was after an experiment check when I was at the nuclear structure lab as an undergrad. Note to self: do NOT look at the pretty blue glow. I couldn't see for 3 days for all the crap that got blown off my retinas.
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Thomas

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Originally Posted by yachtie
Get them sometimes, but worst was after an experiment check when I was at the nuclear structure lab as an undergrad.

Note to self: do NOT look at the pretty blue glow.

I couldn't see for 3 days for all the crap that got blown off my retinas.
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All this time I thought my avoidance of the physics labs was a matter of laziness, now I realize it's self-preservation. Thanks Yachtie!

Oh, and I get those floaters occasionally. Have gotten them since I was in, um, high school?
 

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i remember specifically where I began to see floaters.

first when I was varsity baseball and got hit in the head with a 90mph fastball. I don't remember the concussion but I do remember seeing floaters in my right eye after.

second was just friends throwing around a football and I got pegged in the eye with a tight spiral. there were two distinct floaters after that.

they disappear for months/years at a time though for me.
 

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Originally Posted by fuji
I thought they only appeared when you were high. I've never seen them when I wasn't high.

IMO this is right on. People usually don't pay attention to ****. My layman's terms is that when people actually observe stuff they see a lot of stuff they miss. When I'm high (was high) I saw all sorts of extra **** cause my perception was heightened.

Kinda like a how a previous posters wife said she doesn't have them. yes she does she just doesn't notice em.
 

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Originally Posted by rjmaiorano
I feel like everyones got these. My pops says they appear in his eyes right before a migraine sets in. But he's crazy and also says they are an indication that someone has eaten in a while or something weird like that.

Migraine sufferers can get visual disturbances as part of a prodrome or aura preceding a migraine - scotomas, photopsia, photophobia...etc. including floaters, but the mechanism behind the disturbance is different and is instead rooted in vascular/CNS disturbances.

Common floaters described by most here (I have them as well) have a more physical, non-pathologic basis - proteins or other particulate condensations in the vitreous humor of the eyeball that occasionally show up in the visual field.
 

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Originally Posted by rjmaiorano
...My layman's terms is that when people actually observe stuff they see a lot of stuff they miss. When I'm high (was high) I saw all sorts of extra **** cause my perception was heightened.

And yet people continue to decry drug use.
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Well, I got paranoid and went to get checked out by the doc. Eyes are healthy. Floaters are still annoying, though.
 

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Have'em too. I heard it is more common in people with myopia.
 

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I can only see mine in specific lighting. I figured they were scratches on my retina or something.
 

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Originally Posted by sho'nuff
im seeing one eye floater now in the shape of a lovely nsfw great backdoors image, giving me a boaner, but how am i going to explain that to anyone?

Rorschach ?
 

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