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What Causes Eye Floaters Leading To Blurred Vision And Headache?
I am a 23 year old female and physically active. For 15 to 20 minutes today, I had a kind of floater in my eye (the left was worse) that got bigger, obscuring a large portion of my vision. The floater had black and white ragged edges and the area around it was blurry. After the 15-20 minutes, I developed a minor headache. Now about a couple hours later, my neck feels stiff. I made an apoointment with Group Health Vision Center for tomorrow morning.
Thu, 9 Apr 2015
Hello and welcome to HCm,
The symptoms of eye floaters obscuring vision are suggestive of some disease process or abnormality in the vitreous humor.
Vitreous humor is a gel like material present in the posterior chamber of eye.
Abnormalities like hemorrhage, degeneration etc in the eye can lead to floaters.
Associated headache and neck stiffness are suggestive of meningitis.
Both the conditions require urgent medical attention.
Thus, consult your ophthalmologist for eye problem as well as physician for headache and neck stiffness for investigations and further management.
Thanks and take care
Dr Shailja Puri
The symptoms of eye floaters obscuring vision are suggestive of some disease process or abnormality in the vitreous humor.
Vitreous humor is a gel like material present in the posterior chamber of eye.
Abnormalities like hemorrhage, degeneration etc in the eye can lead to floaters.
Associated headache and neck stiffness are suggestive of meningitis.
Both the conditions require urgent medical attention.
Thus, consult your ophthalmologist for eye problem as well as physician for headache and neck stiffness for investigations and further management.
Thanks and take care
Dr Shailja Puri
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