Patient's Query
Hello doctor,
I have eye floaters. I have done the retina exam by dilation, vision test, etc. Please help.
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Patient's Query
Thank you doctor,
I want to ask that, during last year, I saw some silver flashes in the corner of my left eye. Post which I conceived so could not get it checked. After that, I saw an onset of round concentric floaters which move as my eye moves. I see them in the sky, on the walls and other places too. I see some silver fly like floaters on my phone screen as well. It is always present in my field of vision unlike other silver floaters which stay in the background. I got my retinal scan done before few months, which was perfect. My vision is perfect too. I am still suffering from it. What is this phenomenon and when will it go and when will my vision be the way it was?
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Actually there are different causes of floaters. Normally there is a clear, transparent gel in back of your eye called vitreous gel which is between lens and retina. It is attached to the retina. Sometimes this jelly gets liquified with age, after any ocular surgery, in myopes (using minus glasses) or after trauma. When this jelly is liquified it gets detached from the retina and a ring like part start floating in the back of your eye that is perceived as floater. This is called posterior vitreous detachment (PVD). Sometimes it is related with flashes (you also observed these one year back) or any particle or aggregates in vitreous jelly can cause a floater. This liquified jelly moves with eye movement so its shadow also moves. This PVD can make a hole in the retina in few cases that is why dilated retina examination is necessary (you also underwent that. That is great it was normal). These floaters settle with time when this jelly completely liquified or these particles settle down anteriorly and do not come in vision. Mostly your brain adopts to ignore these but they remain in eye. Whenever you will focus you will find these especially in white backgrounds, or dim light. So you can say it is a process inside the eye that ends normally in most of the cases. If you feel these floaters increased or any other symptoms like sudden decreased vision, curtain like in front of the eye then you must get examined by an eye specialist or retina surgeon (just sharing that when you should consult your doctor). Otherwise, nothing to worry. With passage of time these will disappear.
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Answered byDr. Asif Manzoor
Medically reviewed byDr. Vinodhini J.
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