heartnhands
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Such scary stuff. Hope all continues in strength.For me, eye-floaters turned out to be an ominous sign of trouble. I read a posting above about the sudden onset of floaters. I had that happen to me a few years back. My eye doctor was unconcerned when I made a couple of appointments for him to have a look-see. No treatment was offered.
A couple of weeks later I experienced a spontaneous detached retina. Pretty scary.
After an eye operation (knives and laser) and many months of healing and general eyeball weirdness I was relieved to have my sight mostly restored.
There was a teeny hassle though with a rapidly forming cataract.
Yes, the original operation to reattach my retina had complications. In the weeks that followed, I clearly saw blood flowing about inside my eyeball (I had a front row seat after all). Unfortunately, during follow-up, the surgeon could not see it looking through from the outside.
Well, the lens died and had to retrofitted with a nice plastic one. I'm happy to have it.
Later, I had a sudden cascade of floaters in the other eye. This time, my optomitrist took me more seriously and scheduled an "emergency" operation. The retina was just showing the first signs of letting go so just a welding laser was required. Way less drama.
My advice: get it checked-out thoroughly. Sudden increase of floaters can be a very good sign that there may be some destabilizing things going on.
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