Floater Issues?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:25 pm
Hi my name is Kolt!
I am a 23 year old male. Extremely healthy, very active, eat pretty healthy however I have slowly reduced the amount of activity that I do on a daily basis over the last 5 years due to attending college and working full time for the most part. In the past I would say I played basketball or ran /worked out 3+ days per week. Currently I would say that has gone down to maybe 2 days week. I have struggled with sleep over the last few years, I would say often getting less than 6 total hours per night and frequently only at 2-3 hours at a time. Essentially I wake up usually a few times per night.
After dealing with a recent increase in floaters in both eyes as well as light sensitivity and watering in my left eye, I decided to take a trip the my local eye doctor's office. I was eventually diagnosed with a mild case of anterior uveitis after going back in after my initial appointment with pain in my left eye. The doctor prescribed prednisolone drops 4x per day in my left eye and 2x per day in my right eye for just over one week. Since coming off the drops I have had slight pain towards in my left eye and the floaters have not decreased or gone away in either of my eyes. After having appointments with multiple doctors at my local vision center, and getting the Uveitis to the point where they couldn't see any inflammation, I decided to see a specialist in Denver, at the Colorado Retina Associates just for a second opinion. My specialist dilated my eyes, took pictures and examined my eyes and couldn't find any inflammation. This was about 3 days since I had come off the prednisolone drops. Despite not seeing anything, my specialist ordered blood tests for a number of different things including HLA-B27. I have another appointment set up for mid October to check on my and make sure all is still fine and the inflammation has not returned.
My main worry at this point is the floaters in my eyes as they have become numerous and quite frustrating. On a daily basis I struggle to deal with them and constantly try to wear sunglasses outside as well as tinted safety glasses at work to try not to notice them.
As I wait to hear back on my blood test results, I am curious if anyone has had a similar experience. Is there a certain amount of time to wait and see if floaters go away before I panic too much? Is there anything that anyone here does to help with floaters? Could we be missing something such as posterior uveitis even to the slightest degree that could be the result of something else such as ankylosing spondolitis? If not and everything comes back negative is something like a vitrectomy an option...has anyone had experience with this?
The floaters are just incredibly annoying and frustrating and I was just curious to see if anyone has had a similar experience!
I am a 23 year old male. Extremely healthy, very active, eat pretty healthy however I have slowly reduced the amount of activity that I do on a daily basis over the last 5 years due to attending college and working full time for the most part. In the past I would say I played basketball or ran /worked out 3+ days per week. Currently I would say that has gone down to maybe 2 days week. I have struggled with sleep over the last few years, I would say often getting less than 6 total hours per night and frequently only at 2-3 hours at a time. Essentially I wake up usually a few times per night.
After dealing with a recent increase in floaters in both eyes as well as light sensitivity and watering in my left eye, I decided to take a trip the my local eye doctor's office. I was eventually diagnosed with a mild case of anterior uveitis after going back in after my initial appointment with pain in my left eye. The doctor prescribed prednisolone drops 4x per day in my left eye and 2x per day in my right eye for just over one week. Since coming off the drops I have had slight pain towards in my left eye and the floaters have not decreased or gone away in either of my eyes. After having appointments with multiple doctors at my local vision center, and getting the Uveitis to the point where they couldn't see any inflammation, I decided to see a specialist in Denver, at the Colorado Retina Associates just for a second opinion. My specialist dilated my eyes, took pictures and examined my eyes and couldn't find any inflammation. This was about 3 days since I had come off the prednisolone drops. Despite not seeing anything, my specialist ordered blood tests for a number of different things including HLA-B27. I have another appointment set up for mid October to check on my and make sure all is still fine and the inflammation has not returned.
My main worry at this point is the floaters in my eyes as they have become numerous and quite frustrating. On a daily basis I struggle to deal with them and constantly try to wear sunglasses outside as well as tinted safety glasses at work to try not to notice them.
As I wait to hear back on my blood test results, I am curious if anyone has had a similar experience. Is there a certain amount of time to wait and see if floaters go away before I panic too much? Is there anything that anyone here does to help with floaters? Could we be missing something such as posterior uveitis even to the slightest degree that could be the result of something else such as ankylosing spondolitis? If not and everything comes back negative is something like a vitrectomy an option...has anyone had experience with this?
The floaters are just incredibly annoying and frustrating and I was just curious to see if anyone has had a similar experience!