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Hello. I'm a 25 year old male. I've had floaters since I was 20. The onset occurred during a rough semester I had while in college. I was suffering from chronic headaches at the time and high stress. I still haven't been able to get an answer as to how these conditions could be linked. It's been roughly five years since this conditioned began, and I'm still not adjusted to this change. I'm a very visual person, so I find this condition very disturbing and hard to cope with, but life goes on.

I find it very interesting that no one seems to know why men in their 20s tend to suffer from this disorder. I have e-mail communicated with Dr. Johnson, one of the laser surgery guys, and he couldn't offer me an explaination. I guess there isn't one available. My eye doctor told me I probably had this matter in my eye since birth and that it has just recently moved into my field of vision. But I don't buy that explaination.

I would really like to know what caused this. If I can make lifestyle changes in order to prevent this condition getting worse, that would be prefereable. But, it's hard to make changes if you don't know what you're doing wrong, or if your actions even matter.

Some days I can ignore the floaters. But sometimes I have long periods of time when it weighs on me. I find that I notice them more when I'm depressed or having a rough week. I'm a worrier, and this disorder is something to worry over.

If anyone finds good info, please make it available to all. I'll be sure to do the same. Best of luck.

I'm a 24 year old male who has noticed floaters in my vision for a little over a year now (It seems that a lot of men in their 20’s suffer from this). It started as one particularly dark shape in my left eye which moved in a very fluid manner. I have since noticed other less defined shapes in both of my eyes. They range from a very long and thin "crystalline worm" like structure to amorphous clouds, long tangled threads, and tiny spheres, which all dart around with the movements of my eyes.

They have become a daily obsession and I cannot go a full 24 hours without noticing them. As a result of obsessive habits, I know many of the shapes I see so well, that I can draw some of them in great detail. I'm often able to move my eyes in such a way that I can center them in my field of vision in order to view them in greater detail. My obsession with these annoyances has also lead me to notice that when I squint they become much more defined and visible and the true extent of just how many floaters I have becomes apparent.

The only time I'm able to escape these "floaters" is when I'm indoors. However, the indoors aren't a total sanctuary since the darker floaters are very much visible against lightly colored walls, textures, and brightly lit computer monitors. I never leave the house without my sunglasses even on a moderately cloudy day. It's impossible for me to enjoy a beautiful blue sky the same way I used to.

It's hard for many to understand exactly what I'm seeing; my parent's, my fiancé, even my ophthalmologist who dismissed me within five brief minutes of speaking with me. There’s no way to reasonably avoid these floating annoyances. They truly do cause me a great deal of anxiety and frustration especially since I love(d) being outside. I find the best way to combat this condition is through rational and logical self talk. “If my worst health concern are floaters, then I’m fairly well off.” It’s hard to feel too bad for myself when there are children suffering from cancer. I also think of all the great things I have in my life (like my fiancé ) and my floaters seem a bit less devastating.
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I discovered the word floater when I was 20 years old because I was bothered by a small dark spot in the periphery of my vision. It was only noticeable on plain surfaces like the grey sky but this 'intruder' disturbed me in the first place. I talked about it to other people and some of them said 'yes, I can see that sometimes too, don't worry it isn't serious'.

I acknowledged and they were right. I really had to look for it to see it and I totally forgot about it a couple of weeks after.

I guess this is the kind of floaters people/doctors talk about when they say it is not a problem, you'll get used to it, it will disappear.

Unfortunately this problem came back to me last year. I was 22 and I developped floaters in both eyes. Most troubling ones are in the left eye.
10 months have gone by since their appearance and they have slightly worsened.

It creates a mental strain which sometimes is unbearable. First thing you see in the morning, last thing you see in the evening.
It makes things at work more difficult than they are. One floater sufferer has to do his job without paying attention to strands or dots wandering on his computer screen, walls of meeting room or simply people's faces. Well believe me this is not easy.
But the worst part is that as Creator said, this condition hugely hinders quality of life. Many people may have issues at work but most of them can think of their upcoming spare time in a positive way. I personnally have increasing difficulties doing so.
I used to be a dynamic person and enjoyed doing sports, sightseeing or photography. Now I honestly don't although I force myself to try and keep going outside (otherwise what would I do?).

Now I think I complained enough. Of course there are worse conditions and I am well aware of it but everyone must be aware that floaters can be harmful. I believe that compared to the suffering they can cause the medical response is really poor.

I truly hope that research will be done about it and that better treatments will be offered in the near future. I just cannot picture myself with all this debris in my eyes for my entire life.

I developed eye floaters when I was 27 years old. I am now 34 years old, so it has been more than 7 years since the onset of eye floaters in my eyes.

At first, the eye floaters were minimal and only one strand in my right eye annoyed me a lot by being in the center of the vision most of the time. This would have been "bearable" if it stayed like that for a long time.

Unfortunately, the problem with this disease is that it's degenerative. My eye floaters became worse and worse over the years. This past october 2009, they really became very bad, especially in the right eye. That very bothersome floaters that was the first floater I ever got 7 years ago is still there but he's now worse because he's way more mobile. So, he his still in the center of the vision 95% of the time and moves so much that I cannot ignore it at all (not that I could really before). There have been new globs of crap in that eye that used to stay in the bottom of the vision but now swirls in the middle of the vision with ease when I move my eyes.

The floaters changed my life for the worst. I was an always happy person before developing this disease. Now, I rarely laugh anymore and I pretty much never go outside or in brightly lit places. I also pretty much always wear sunglasses. I also stopped many activities I used to enjoy because it's just not enjoyeable anymore.

This problem is serious and research needs to be done to find a safe cure. Eye doctors needs to stop putting it on the side. If it was a rare condition, I would understand more, but this condition is affecting millions of people and is something most people will go through in their lives. They need to find a cure for such a big problem.

I got floaters because of using malarial antibiotics,

I cant able to concentrate on anything. i am just 25 years old male.

please carry on your experiments to treat floaters.

All about complaining so far,
now finally, somebody start to do something about floaters
so please don't quit!!!!!
We all know how it feel that those evil **** sitting at the center of our eye and ruin our young lifes .

Don't quit, I come back and check on it every day!!!

We always support you!!!!

I suffered two retinal detachments, one year and a half ago, one in each eye, because of my miopia and hard physical exercising. I had a vitrectomy and been cured, but since then I had developed some floaters. Months later, I´ve tried to get my sport life back, doctors told me I could do some running and soft abs exercises, not the had training that I´ve been used to. Weeks later the number of floaters increased a lot, they are like bubbles all over. Doctors tell me they are a thing I got to get used to.

So my question is, does physical exercise cause floaters? A person with floaters is then condemmend to have a sedentary life? I am only 23 years old. And these floaters are about to increase to a point where they gonna block your field of vision? They really get me scared now, though my doctor says it´s inofensive and there is no treatment for this.

im 20y/o, and have had these floaters since i was 15. They are extremely annoying, and it makes it hard to concentrate on anything. I've visited doctor James Johnson, and according to him my floaters are too small and too close to the retina to be lasered. Is there anyone else that has the same problem?