Floaters/detached retina-anyone??

[TxVicki]

The only time I had this happen was when I was taking Chemo, it scared me so much. After I finished Chemo it went away.
I certainly hope you can find out what is causing the problem.

[Baby Blessing]

Originally Posted by YorkieSpirit1

I now take Andre Lessman's Ultimate Eye Support along with his Astaxanthin, which you can get on HSN.com. if you go on website read all
the reviews on these products, and you'll see that these have helped with the tissue in the eye that we don't get from our diets. I haven't had any problem with eye flashing since.

I LOVE Andrew Lessman products, was in awe seeing how his lab operates and how VERY CLEAN,it was very impressive when HSN televised live with him at the Lab in Nevada. Sure a good feeling to see where products are made and how conscientious they are in providing quality.
I have Jack on the Ultimate eye support and it seems to have helped him a bit, although there really isnt anything Dr.s can do due to the injury. I also put him on their Essential 1 multi vitamin daily, Essential Omega 3 twice a day, also Vitamin D3 and Resveratrol-100. (in my research regarding Parkinson's I learnt the Resveratrol is beneficial as well as additional Vitamin D3)
I totally agree our foods today are far from providing the nutrition our bodies need.
Hugs, Patti and Jack

[lillymae]

Originally Posted by enchilila

It is probably so routine to the doctors to see patients with floaters, etc. that they don't see it as an emergency as the patients do. What I heard him say was "Take two aspirins and get plenty of rest". lol Frustrating!



I just had a TSH test about a month ago. It was at a very good number. I go to a GP for this. Was going to an endocrinologist a few years back. My GP never checks anything other than the TSH. I really need to be more aggressive about my hypo-T and find someone who really understands how to treat it.

I didn't realize that thyroid levels can affect one's vision. I know if I approach my doctor with this kind of question, he would look like a deer in headlights. lol

Why is it that thyroid issues are so misunderstood!!!

Thanks for the tip about this. I'm going to do more research.

Please make your Dr check more then just your TSH. Do you know that it is impossible to even diagnose Hashimotos by only checking the TSH & is what my ex-doctor insisted would tell her EVERYTHING she needed to know about my Hashimotos. I had my TSH checked 5 times in 9 days & was having a thyroid storm the whole time BUT my TSH was perfect all 5 times it was checked, so your Dr checking only the TSH is a complete waste of time if you have Hashimotos. Remember , your paying for that needle stick that's telling nothing about your condition.
And yes, thyroid conditions can totally blind you but is usually only temporary & sight restored after meds begin.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Please get to see a specialist in macular problems. I hesitate to post this as it may not be your situation but read it as a warning. I hope you won't wait about getting two specialists' opinions. I don't want to scare you - your situation is likely totally different but consider my situation.

I had floaters for years, then the lightening and zizzy circles in the edge of my vision and then one day, everything looked very strange in my right eye. I realized I could no longer see straight lines normally - they were bent and things I focused on were quite thin and abnormally distorted. Went to a macular specialist who said I had a tear in the macula from a congenital condition. Wait and see. 9 mos. later the distortion was so bad I had to have surgery and by then, the damage was done and surgery resulted in legal blindness in the right eye - huge gray defect in the central vision where I see nothing though I have peripheral vision. The specialist told me the lightening and zizzy looking things were ocular migraines from a congenital retinal partial detachment I'd had all my life - never found by my eye doctor before because finding it took special testing the specialist did. The retinal detachment had loosened with age and torn more, the healing caused tightening and scarring to pull on the macula, stretch it, strain it and then tear it.

Nine years later, same thing happened in the left. This time I got to the doctor on Christmas Eve, the morning after symptoms started and had surgery 3 days later. Have some distortion in the central vision after the surgery but no blindness.

Eventually within 2 years, I developed severe cataracts from the macular surgeries and after both were removed and corrective lenses implanted, I see better than I ever have in my life! I have occasional 15/20 vision in the left eye even with the distortion and the peripheral vision in my right eye is excellent - and it helps my left eye focus better now it's been corrected with a good lens! Even though I am blind in the right eye, I actually have the best overall vision I ever had, even with corrective glasses which I used to have to wear to drive or watch TV. No more glasses after the lens implants except to read!!! I now drive and watch TV and see far off with no glasses at all.

I do have a muscle problem in the right eye now from the blind portion that keeps the eye from trying to focus so it wanders and that makes reading very hard as I see a good deal of double things but am seeing my second opinion doc on that next month (just got my first opinion) and already know I'm having surgical correction which is about a 5 min. procedure when the surgeon can schedule it next month.

SO GO TO A MACULAR SPECIALIST and then see a second one. Early intervention is often key here. If that first macular specialist hadn't waited on the right eye, I would likely have not lost the macular central vision there - but that is old history now. I have lived and learned. Get to a specialist and then get a second opinion of another good macular specialist. Had I gotten a second opinion I probably would have had early right eye surgery before my macula was too far gone.

It may all just be retinal and nothing macular but a mac specialist can treat that, too. Waiting and doing nothing can be your eyes' worst enemy - take it from someone who has been there and whose sister is blind from macular degeneration and with a grandmother who we now know must have also had severe macular problems. She and my sister and I all started with floaters, then the lightening, then the black spots. Black spots usually indicate little bleeds that come from bits that have torn or detached but not always. But don't fool around with your eyes seeing just a regular eye doctor or even a single macular specialist. See two and see them soon! I pray you don't have a serious condition and the lightening and such are just retinal oopsies and age related as many people have. But don't wait or assume nothing bad is happening where eyes are concerned. Please.

[enchilila]

Originally Posted by Harrysmum

Would 'being of a certain age' and the hormonal upset have any bearing on this do you think? Just trying to rack my brain here.... Sally x

Ouch! Hit me where it hurts! Yes, the doc mentioned that as people age, it is more common. I'm sure my hormones or what hormones I have left are playing a role in it.

[enchilila]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Please get to see a specialist in macular problems. I hesitate to post this as it may not be your situation but read it as a warning. I hope you won't wait about getting two specialists' opinions. I don't want to scare you - your situation is likely totally different but consider my situation.

I had floaters for years, then the lightening and zizzy circles in the edge of my vision and then one day, everything looked very strange in my right eye. I realized I could no longer see straight lines normally - they were bent and things I focused on were quite thin and abnormally distorted. Went to a macular specialist who said I had a tear in the macula from a congenital condition. Wait and see. 9 mos. later the distortion was so bad I had to have surgery and by then, the damage was done and surgery resulted in legal blindness in the right eye - huge gray defect in the central vision where I see nothing though I have peripheral vision. The specialist told me the lightening and zizzy looking things were ocular migraines from a congenital retinal partial detachment I'd had all my life - never found by my eye doctor before because finding it took special testing the specialist did. The retinal detachment had loosened with age and torn more, the healing caused tightening and scarring to pull on the macula, stretch it, strain it and then tear it.

Nine years later, same thing happened in the left. This time I got to the doctor on Christmas Eve, the morning after symptoms started and had surgery 3 days later. Have some distortion in the central vision after the surgery but no blindness.

Eventually within 2 years, I developed severe cataracts from the macular surgeries and after both were removed and corrective lenses implanted, I see better than I ever have in my life! I have occasional 15/20 vision in the left eye even with the distortion and the peripheral vision in my right eye is excellent - and it helps my left eye focus better now it's been corrected with a good lens! Even though I am blind in the right eye, I actually have the best overall vision I ever had, even with corrective glasses which I used to have to wear to drive or watch TV. No more glasses after the lens implants except to read!!! I now drive and watch TV and see far off with no glasses at all.

I do have a muscle problem in the right eye now from the blind portion that keeps the eye from trying to focus so it wanders and that makes reading very hard as I see a good deal of double things but am seeing my second opinion doc on that next month (just got my first opinion) and already know I'm having surgical correction which is about a 5 min. procedure when the surgeon can schedule it next month.

SO GO TO A MACULAR SPECIALIST and then see a second one. Early intervention is often key here. If that first macular specialist hadn't waited on the right eye, I would likely have not lost the macular central vision there - but that is old history now. I have lived and learned. Get to a specialist and then get a second opinion of another good macular specialist. Had I gotten a second opinion I probably would have had early right eye surgery before my macula was too far gone.

It may all just be retinal and nothing macular but a mac specialist can treat that, too. Waiting and doing nothing can be your eyes' worst enemy - take it from someone who has been there and whose sister is blind from macular degeneration and with a grandmother who we now know must have also had severe macular problems. She and my sister and I all started with floaters, then the lightening, then the black spots. Black spots usually indicate little bleeds that come from bits that have torn or detached but not always. But don't fool around with your eyes seeing just a regular eye doctor or even a single macular specialist. See two and see them soon! I pray you don't have a serious condition and the lightening and such are just retinal oopsies and age related as many people have. But don't wait or assume nothing bad is happening where eyes are concerned. Please.

OMGoodness! I am so glad that your situation is so much better now. Wow! I can't imagine going through what you went through. I hope I don't have to. I've always believed in going to the best doctors and getting second opinions. I didn't know there were macular specialists out there! I am only 30 minutes from Scott & White Hospital in Temple. I'm sure I can find one there. I'll call Monday and get this second opinion thing rolling.

Did your eyes hurt? My eyeballs hurt. It feels like a sinus infection. I don't have a headache at all. More like tension behind the eye. I told the opthalmologist about it and he just look puzzled.

Thank you for suggesting a macular specialist and also for your concern.

[yorkietalkjilly]

I had some eye pain but mine, too, was said to be from sinuses but honestly since all my problems were fixed, I have no more "sinus" problems like that. I hated to mention such dire problems and scare you but if there is the teeniest chance you are having mac probs, thought it would be worth mentioning to you. I wish someone had told me not to let mac problems lie for 9 mos. - to get another specialist to look at me. Because when I did, he scheduled me for surgery right away. Hopefully and likely, your floaters and other sx. are just the age-related things we all can have from time to time. But if just one person reads this who is having similar problems and gets help sooner than they would have, maybe it will be worth the scare to all who read it and have ever had anything similar! Lots of people have floaters and even the lightening/zizzy things without macular problems. The macula is where our eye fine focuses and without good vision there, you don't enjoy much TV, movies, traveling, driving or reading - life. Fine focus in eyesight is what really makes sight so wonderful. Having only peripheral vision is better than nothing but if I had to live life with only what my right eye can see, it would be a small, limited world. I will be praying you get the best report ever and doc says see me in a year for a recheck!