THE TALK -YOUNG PEOPLE WITH VITREOUS EYE FLOATERS: Moving spots, threads in your vision?

Sorry about the sound quality. It is a shame because the content is important. I'll have to re-do. I want you all to know that I have a new program in my practice created especially with young floater-sufferers in mind: Low-dose Atropine (0.01% and 0.005%). It works by mildly dilated the pupil which changes how you see the floaters cast onto your retina by these little collagen atrocities. It avoids the big 'blown-out' pupils and the resultant light sensitivity/blurred vision, and well as the paralyzation of focusing that the full strength dilating drops cause. I am offering Tele-Med Zoom Consultations for anyone in the US (or access to a US mailing address) and I am keeping it very affordable. More information at https://thefloaterdoctor/atropine

Why won't the medical industry address this issue? It is such a difficult disability to live with and no one seems interested in figuring out solutions. Not many other health issues are treated like this.

Thank you for your transparent and coherent message to the EF community!

Your honesty and commitment to safety is appreciated.

Dr. Johnson, thank you for dedicating your practice to help people with eye floaters. I don’t understand why doctors seem to think that there is no monetary incentive to curing eye floaters for young people too. There are many of us, and I would not mind paying whatever to have this safely fixed. This is not a cosmetic issue. This impacts the quality of life. If all people would have accepted to live with glasses there would be to LASIK. Why do young people need to accept to live with floaters? Young people can we unite to please get research moving on this?!

Thank you, this was helpful for my anxiety. 23 and suffering from just one pesky sizable floater in my right eye for a while now, it's good to know that I'm not alone and that the psychological distress is common. What you said about this being the first time my health has betrayed me really struck a chord.

This is the first helpful and honest video I’ve watched. I was 35 when I got my first floater and it’s been almost 2 years and iv development a lot more since and your right. It’s very depressing and totally feels the body is breaking down early. Iv never had an answer for mine but I put it down to blood pressure medication, 3 months after starting it and they appeared. Thanks for the videos, maybe time to accept and move on from obsessing to find a cure

I’ve been seeing these since about five years old I always thought I was kinda crazy

maybe someone should invent a non invasive way how to move the floaters inside eye to a safe and convenient place where doctor can zap them with laser, maybe ultrasound or something like that.

I’m 27 have floaters. I have had them since I was 21 and had Botox treatment around forehead and crows feet and noticed more floaters don’t know if they’re connected. I have started taking maccushield supplement. Is this safe for my age? Thank you

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I would make selfmurder if a doctor denyes to make fov. Its crazy. My life is ruined and i cant go out on daylight because i become depression from the floaters. I dont understand why eye doctors deny mostly. Not all. I have hope of optegra clinic. When they refuse to make a fov i consider to protest publicly against eye doctors. Floaters are crazy horrible and ruine life of people. The blindness risk by fov 27 gauge technique is minimal. About 1: 5000. I would consider to make a fov even if the risk were 1: 50 .

Honestly I found this very helpful. I'm 32 and went to an eye hospital and they said my eyes were perfectly healthy, but I could see multiple floaters in my vision. They did diagnose me with dry eyes so I'm kind of hopeful that treating the dry eyes may cause the floaters to improve (no direct connection but we'll see). In any case it's good to know that essentially there's nothing I can do at the moment; living with it and hoping they get better, or I get better at "seeing past" them is the only option!

I developed floaters in both eyes aged 31. There were quite a few and I got pretty familiar with them all. They pretty much stayed the same. Some even seemed to vanish. But now 9yrs later I'm all of a sudden seeing alot of new different ones. My sight itself is fine I don't need glasses or anything, and no flashes at all, I'm just recognising quite a few new floaters over this summer. It's now getting to the point where I want rid of them. Seriously considering laser treatment of I can find someone good.

Hello doctor, can eye floaters really get better with time? Or move out of the field of vision? Have you had patients like that? Im 15 and I had one like 1-2 years ago and i guess it disappeared. I did nothing about that back then. Now for 2 weeks Im experiencing like the same size, same eye. Do they randomly change place in the eye? Thanks so much

Hi Dr. I visited your office here in Irvine a few years ago at the time I only had a few and we’re not as bad but as time went by I’ve noticed more floaters in both eyes and I do worry a lot about the future and I noticed the more I try to workout not any heavy lifting just light to medium I realized I get more floaters not sure if it’s from pressure or stressing my eyes Thank you your videos are really helpful making us feel good 👍

Thank you, this was quite informative. I developed floaters on both of my eyes at the same time at a young age. Is it common for both eyes to be affected or is that something to worry about ?

Hi doc, I respect you very much for your transparency. Since you are one of the most competent and knowledgeable doctors on floaters out there, I' d love to know, if possible, about your hypothesis that you can't demonstrate yet, which you refer to at minute 1:23, on why proteins can clump together in healthy and young eyes. I am 26 and I suddenly noticed my floaters one day when I repeatedly look to far objects and then near objects and again several times. Given my experience about how I noticed floaters I thought they might be related to excessive use of the accomodation of the eye or the cilliary muscle. Do you think it might be a link between the two things or am I just randomly guessing?

I am 18 and i have high myopia in both eyes i am facing lots of colourless floaters there were no spots and flashes only floaters is it harmful for my eye even i have visited doctor one month before ...

Hi! I’m 18F and I’m myopic (-4.00ish in each eye) for some background. how can you tell how close floaters are to the retina? is there a difference in appearance? I have a few transparent lines and dots, these dont bother me much as I’ve had these the longest. Its the dark blobs that really bother me, as one floats to the center of my vision whenever I move my eye laterally. I’m wondering what the difference between the dark and transparent ones is? I have two large floaters, one in each eye. would love to not have to deal with these anymore at some point.