Ever suddenly noticed little cobwebs or gray specks drifting around in your field of vision? I sure have. The first time it happened, I was convinced there was a bug flying around the room — until I realized it was inside my eye. Spoiler: that was my first encounter with something called posterior vitreous detachment,…
I’ll be honest—I never really paid attention to the little squiggly shadows in my vision until one day I got clocked in the eye during a casual basketball game. What followed wasn’t just a black eye; it was these annoying little floaters dancing across my vision that wouldn’t go away. I panicked. Was I losing…
So, a few months ago, I noticed these tiny dark specks drifting across my vision—like little gnats I couldn’t quite swat away. They weren’t alarming at first, but then they multiplied and started moving more aggressively. As someone who’s had a couple of mild eye infections in the past, I brushed it off as just…
It started subtly—a faint squiggle floating into my peripheral vision when I glanced at a bright wall. At first, I thought it was dust. I blinked, rubbed my eyes, even cleaned my glasses. But it didn’t go away. Turns out, what I was seeing was a floater. And the older I got, the more of…
Last week, I had one of those throbbing migraines that knocked me off my routine for hours. As I lay in a dark room, something odd happened—I noticed weird flickering shapes and spots drifting across my vision. At first, I blamed the pain, but then I paused. Were those floaters? Could the migraine itself be…
Last year, after undergoing PRK to correct my nearsightedness, I was relieved to ditch glasses. But not long after surgery, I started noticing strange specks and thread-like shadows drifting across my vision. At first, I brushed them off as post-op haze, but they lingered—those infamous “floaters.” It got me wondering: could PRK be to blame?…
If you’ve ever noticed strange spots or threads drifting across your vision and you happen to have Marfan syndrome, you’re definitely not alone. I remember sitting in a brightly lit room, trying to focus on a conversation, only to be distracted by those shadowy floaters darting across my sight. At first, I thought it was…
Last year, after starting a prescription blood thinner following a minor heart arrhythmia, I noticed a strange uptick in those drifting shapes in my vision — the classic “floaters.” At first, I brushed it off. Maybe it was stress or age, but the timing felt too coincidental. So I did what anyone with a curious…
My eyes used to play tricks on me—especially after a long day staring at spreadsheets or binge-watching a show. Little specks, squiggles, or translucent blobs would drift across my vision. At first, I thought it was just fatigue or dust. But when they started showing up more frequently, I learned they were called eye floaters….