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What Causes Floaters In The Eyes?
Last night I thought there was either something in my eye or on my upper eye lashes. I couldn t find anything looking in my 10x magnifying mirror. Asked my daughter to see if she could detect anything and she could not. But today I am still seeing something . It moves with my eye movements and it looks like maybe the outline of the colored part of my eyeball with the pupil at the center. I have green eyes, am 56 yes old. Always had perfect vision until about 10 years ago started needing magnifying glasses to read. I am now up to 2.5 magnification. It is not a solid outline but rather like a rough drawing
Fri, 24 Feb 2017
it might be blepharitis get it checked by ophthalmologist. clean eye lid with sterile swab. applyneosporine eye ointment over eye lid. you have developed presbyopia a near vision defect because of age developing weakness of zonule so contraction resulting in change of shape o lens is not possible. it is to be corrected by plus lens. refraction by eye specialist is requered and error detected should be duely corrected.
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these are degenerative bodies in vetrious they can not be seen by magnifying glases ophthalmoscopy by eye doctor is requered for detection. in myopic in ptesalated fundus they may be more or it can be retinal holes tear or peripheral detachment sudden increase of floater scan be warning of iminant retinal detachment they should be reviewed and progress should be monitored.
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