Not nice. I have had floaters for many years and it is a real bother sometimes, constantly moving my eyes to get them out of the field of view.
Dave On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:22 PM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_vitreous_detachment > > Just a heads-up for those who have to pay for treatment or who may suffer a > premium increase for consulting. > > Stepping out of the house on Thursday, I saw a splash of white across my > left eye. Thinking it was bird poop, I wiped the eye but there was nothing > there. Then I noticed the huge (60-70% of my vision) field of floaters that > had appeared. Clearly a cause for concern. Off to the local eye infirmary (a > leftover from the local industrial past) for a checkup, where the above was > diagnosed. > > A very common occurence, apparently, and completely harmless in itself. > Complications such as those mentioned in the wiki article are very rare - I > was the third person that day to turn up with the problem and the > opthamologist had seen no complications this year. She highlighted that it > was only really necessary to come back if an occurence caused a dark patch > in my vision that I could not see through or my vision as a whole rapidly > deteriorated. She also said that complications generally occur at the time, > not later, unlike the wiki article. > > So there you go. > > > -- > No fixed Adobe > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
