If you’re like me—someone who’s always squinting at mysterious little specs drifting through your vision—you’ve probably asked yourself at some point: “Is this just getting older, or is something deeper going on?” In my case, I brushed it off until my optometrist casually mentioned Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. That moment sent me down a rabbit hole of…
So here’s something that caught me off guard — after starting hormonal birth control, I noticed weird floaty specks in my vision. At first, I thought it was just my eyes being tired from screen time. But those shadowy wisps didn’t go away. If you’ve ever caught yourself squinting at the air trying to “catch”…
For years, I didn’t think much about those squiggly, drifting shadows in my vision. I chalked them up to just “eye gunk” or maybe too much screen time. But then I started wondering—could my smoking habit be making them worse? I dug in, talked to my eye doctor, and what I found honestly surprised me….
For years, I chalked up those tiny squiggly shadows in my vision to just being tired or spending too much time on screens. But when I was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), things started to click. Eye floaters had shown up before any major symptoms did, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that maybe—just…
It started with a sudden shower of dark specs drifting across my vision—like someone had shaken a snow globe full of black ash. I blinked, rubbed my eyes, even splashed my face, thinking maybe I was just tired. But the floaters didn’t go away. A dull ache set in, and something told me this wasn’t…
About a year ago, I was rear-ended on the freeway. It wasn’t a dramatic, high-speed crash, but enough to rattle me—and apparently, my eyes too. A few days later, I started noticing these strange, squiggly shadows drifting through my vision. At first, I thought it was just stress or lack of sleep. But when they…
It started with an annoying itch in my right eye. Within hours, the whites turned pink, and I knew I was dealing with conjunctivitis—something I hadn’t had since middle school. What caught me off guard wasn’t the redness, the discomfort, or even how contagious it was—it was what came later. Long after the eye cleared…
Last year, I was in the middle of a grocery aisle when I noticed something new floating across my vision—tiny specs and squiggles that didn’t go away no matter how much I blinked. At 52, I figured I was just tired. But a week later, they were still there, and they’d become harder to ignore….
It caught me off guard the first time. I woke up from a minor outpatient procedure—nothing serious, just some general anesthesia—and there they were: those weird squiggly shadows floating around in my vision. I remember blinking rapidly, rubbing my eyes, even tilting my head, hoping they’d vanish. They didn’t. If you’ve experienced floaters after anesthesia,…