Hi Bloggers,
I'm one of those unfortunate individuals who suffer from severe myopia. I've been shortsighted ever since I was about eleven. I remember those first times when I realised I couldn't read the blackboard and had to come and sit up front in class. my eyes got progressively worse as a teenager, but did then stabilise reasonably well for most of my adult like.
One side effect of being short sighted is that one is particularly prone to things called floaters. They're bits of the vitreous gel covering the retina that break off and float around in the eye. The reason for this is that short-sighted people have slightly elongated eye balls, which stretches the gel and puts it under a little more pressure. Anyone can get them, though, particularly as you get older.
I first got them 15 years ago, but I learnt to handle them well. In fact, after a while I stopped even noticing they were there. But I recently got a new batch, some really big ones that float right across my central vision. They can be incredibly irritating, almost debilitating at times. And they affect your self confidence too.
Apparently they can be treated by YAG laser, but this operation seems to be done only in America by a few specialists. I may get around to going there one day, but, meanwhile, I've learnt to accept them rather than fight them. The important thing is to not keep looking at them, but to ignore them. Eventually their impact on you diminishes. And soon you even learn to love them, like old friends. After all they are a part of you!
Hope this helps any fellow sufferers.
Cheers,
Robert
I'm one of those unfortunate individuals who suffer from severe myopia. I've been shortsighted ever since I was about eleven. I remember those first times when I realised I couldn't read the blackboard and had to come and sit up front in class. my eyes got progressively worse as a teenager, but did then stabilise reasonably well for most of my adult like.
One side effect of being short sighted is that one is particularly prone to things called floaters. They're bits of the vitreous gel covering the retina that break off and float around in the eye. The reason for this is that short-sighted people have slightly elongated eye balls, which stretches the gel and puts it under a little more pressure. Anyone can get them, though, particularly as you get older.
I first got them 15 years ago, but I learnt to handle them well. In fact, after a while I stopped even noticing they were there. But I recently got a new batch, some really big ones that float right across my central vision. They can be incredibly irritating, almost debilitating at times. And they affect your self confidence too.
Apparently they can be treated by YAG laser, but this operation seems to be done only in America by a few specialists. I may get around to going there one day, but, meanwhile, I've learnt to accept them rather than fight them. The important thing is to not keep looking at them, but to ignore them. Eventually their impact on you diminishes. And soon you even learn to love them, like old friends. After all they are a part of you!
Hope this helps any fellow sufferers.
Cheers,
Robert
1 comment:
I'm a fellow-sufferer - both from myopia and "floaters". For the past seven years I've had a particularly big one in my right eye which means a vertical smear slithers across my vision every time I look left or right. I used to find it very distracting and slightly alarming - and now I only notice it when I go for an eye test. I used to think it might disperse one day, but I guess not - and I'm not sure I'd even notice!
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