I developed an eye floater in April and I realized today that for a few days it has not been around.
Is that possible??
If it's not around, it's not around! Congratulations!
That was my thought too :)
Yay!! Just in time for the summertime :)
Floaters typically get partially reabsorbed into the vitreous fluid, plus your brain gets used to ignoring them, so after a couple of months you don't see them anymore, but they're usually still there.
Almost everyone over a certain age has a few floaters, but (as with everything else) we diabetics are more prone to them.
If you look at a solid white wall, you can sometimes see floaters you didn't even know you had.
Ruth
I've had floaters for years, little ones. They come and they go. Like aches and pains.
And my optho says that's normal, for D and non D alike.
I was told the same thing; that they are normal and that the only time they are a cause for concern is if they dramatically increase. Even then, they may not be indicative of anything serious. I had some symptoms such as increased floaters and sparkly things out of the corners of my eyes. I was told it was a symptom of something I forget the name of...vitreous something or other; that it could develop into something more serious but that most likely it would go away which it did.
I have had floaters starting about 10 years ago, I thought I was having some major problem.
I find that my floaters gradually drop down to the bottom of my eye, then out of my field of vision eventually. usually just in time for a new one to form near the top. Gravity just works them down according to my endo.
I only really notice them when I look up at the sky or a white wall.
One of the many joys of aging.
I used to have floaters all the time when I was a kid, I don't remember when I stopped noticing them but haven't run into them since. My 'joy of aging' is going to bifocals. When I went to the eye doc last time, we did the exam ("ok, read the next row...") or whatever and he goes "well, your eyes are shot" which is not a brilliant thing to say to someone with diabetes!! So I was like "What" (TF!!!) and he goes "you need reading glasses" which, initially, seemed like a big improvement but, all in all, I think that it also sort of fried out the "vision software" in my brain and I just don't see things as sharply as I used to be able to, even just a couple of years ago. :-(
Know the feeling. I've had bifocals long enough that they just seem normal. Our ability to adapt is truly remarkable, sometimes.