Vitrectomy for Vitreous Opacities (Floaters)

[bluefairyuk]

In the video the surgeon says that the white veil sometimes goes away by itself, this is a grat hope for me, has anyone got rid of it without surgery? Please share information! Thank you.

[bluefairyuk]

The video is not just about common floaters! It's about a the white veil that some people get besides having floaters. I have just started to have this problems and the doctor tld me that there is nothing to do, said the operation is very dangerous.

[Macabresque]

This makes me feel sick watching this :( but floaters are very annoying indeed...

[wreyoG]

dont know if i am a good candidate for Vitrectomy though as i have a 4 year history of Anterior Uveitis..so highly unlikely

[isan0406]

wonderful technique !!! on a separate note, can anyone tell me what this background classical music is?? it complements the procedure nicely !

[Alexx7529]

sign Cure for Floaters Petition

[Alexx7529]

enter in google "Cure for Floaters Petition" and signed!

[polyurethanewheels]

'i dont mind floaters they are fun to look at'? are you fucking kidding me? dude - what seems like fun at 13 wont be so fun after 25 years of doing it. well - maybe jacking off - but thats about it. any of you donkeys that think this is some kind of joke or 'fun' can seriously fuck off.

[catseatcheese]

Since this will cause a cataract, will you just go ahead and replace the lens at the same time, so the pt. can avoid another surgery? If not, why? Thank You.

[Petegrin1]

@lahorichikur i dont get it? i only said that when im bored i like to play around with my floaters. for example, i usually tries to make them stand compleatly still. just a little tip, just do this when your alone becuz you really do look retarded playing around with floaters haha

[Petegrin1]

haha, i like playing with my floaters when im bored

[belmont620]

Yes, they are common. But sometimes the floaters, as in my case, get so dense that they interfere with your daily life. Please don't dismiss this as something trivial like a scraped knee that you can put a band aid on.

[reticulum78]

Where did you get this nonsense from? Actually vitreous floaters are very common even among children and are usually not sign of anything, let alone something serious.

[XXxcanadax]

im 13 and have 24/7 floaters for about 9 months now but they dont bother me their actually kinda fun to look at.

[ogopogo5050]

i have had floaters for over 2 years now. first started in the left eye and now in the right eye. have gone to an eye specialist several times and they say i have an unusually high amount of floaters but "dont worry about it". it is driving me crazy. im having trouble driving and have stopped driving at night because the glare of light going through the floaters almost blinds me.

[LaneyCore]

@ogopogo5050 Sounds exactly like my story. 2 years ago, started with one on the left, now I have a bunch on my right and 3 on the left. They are different , but the ones on the right eye drive me crazy cause they interact with light and end up looking golden . Kinda like if I had glitter in my eye. It is horrible, but I'm hoping for some enzymatic inject-able type of cure that would just dissolve floaters. They are actually working on something like that, hopefully it will be available soon.

[conspiritor2]

@LaneyCore

Where did you hear about that cure?

[LaneyCore]

@conspiritor2 floatertalk.yuku.com. It was by this italian Dr, named Crevatin, but nevermind, he failed.

[conspiritor2]

@LaneyCore

So no hope after all...

[LaneyCore]

@conspiritor2 Well, there is still a little bit of hope. Some people believe that a cure might come as a result of studies done for other eye diseases. There is this injection they are working on called Vitreosolve that would prevent diabetic retinopathy from developing. During the trials many patients stated that their floaters had been reduced or eliminated, like as a secondary effect of the drug. We'll see what happens! . There is more info on Vitreosolve on the link I gave u earlier.

[conspiritor2]

@LaneyCore

Well we can't say that it's promising but there is little hope...

[vitrectomysupportsys]

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[kalliereann]

Ugh. My dad is having this done soon.

Poor dad.

[pookey1951]

just had this surgery, it went great,I see much better. I had the same surgery last year, this also went great, no problems, on different eyes of coarse.

[bunnyisblack]

i had floaters since i was 10. they do NOT bother me at all

[GrimFandangoMan]

amazing!

[deassoc50]

I had a vitrectomy done three days ago. I have had floaters all of my life, but they got worse after I had cataracts removed in both eyes about a year ago. To make things worse, in August, I had an ophthalmologist perform the floater removal with a YAG laser. This only disrupted globular web of material that made it look like I was seeing through cellophane. It was highly pervasive in that it followed my line of site vision literally everywhere I looked! Gave in and got a vitrectomy-glad I did!

[conspiritor2]

@deassoc50 Any side effects?

[deassoc50]

I had a vitrectomy done three days ago. I have had floaters all of my life, but they got worse after I had cataracts removed in both eyes about a year ago. To make things worse, in August, I had an ophthalmologist perform the floater removal with a YAG laser. This only disrupted globular web of material that made it look like I was seeing through cellophane. It was highly pervasive in that it followed mu line of site vision literally everywhere I looked! Gave in and got a vitrectomy-glad!

[Rebeccietjuh456]

a friend of mine has got them. but he won't do the surgery because he has seen thisnow he's affraid. how do I make him do it?

because he's whining about it and he has it badly.

[MrTrickShot]

I've had them for years, one in particular is incredibly annoying. It's in my left eye and completely fucks with any light it passes over. A thick dark line will appear over the light as the floater passes over it. It's strange though, because if the floater starts passing over the top of the light the thick dark line starts at the bottom and moves up, while the floater moves down... has anyone ever experienced something like this?

[koningkoe]

Im done with this fucking shit, I have had fucking floaters for 3 years now and im only fucking 26 y old, I live in complete darkness, my vision is raped by very large blurry floaters/clouds/cobwebs along with very sharp distinctive black crystal worms. that in both fucking eyes. I fucking can't see a shit anymore and the docs tell me to FUCKING LIVE WITH IT YEA????? Im gonna fucking get a FOV. I will take every fucking risk in teh fucking world to fucking get rid of this fucking shit.

[LifeInATent]

@koningkoe Did it work? I have the same problem

[LaneyCore]

@koningkoe I hear you, I'm 23 and have had them for 2 years. Let me know how the vitrectomy goes. I'm seriously considering it as well.

[kidcapri009]

@koningkoe I'm getting one too man. I've had this shit for 1 year and I'm only 23. It's too rare for anyone to understand so no one gives a fuck. Cataracts? Bring em on! I'd rather wear reading glasses than see shit for the rest of my life.

[belmont620]

@kidcapri009

Having cataract surgery won't get rid of floaters, I'm sorry to say, because the lens of the eye--the part that turns into a cataract--sits in front of and is separate from the vitreous where the floaters are floating around and driving us nuts.

[lilmatt357]

@koningkoe did u get it ?

[jesskazen]

@koningkoe did you get it done? I have had them since I was 10 years old, 1st dots now they have tails and webs, I have trouble reading



[cooljunkproductions]

@koningkoe HOW DID IT GO? PLEASE RESPOND!

[SpyOpz94]

@koningkoe Im 17 now and my floaters started when I was 16 man... I'm seriously depressed about this

[Obeace]

seriously tho is this succesful i mean hollyshit

[borbos75]

I had this surgery a few months ago

[wastlh]

@borbos75 How did it go? Improvement?

[conspiritor2]

@borbos75 Wanna share with us how it went?

[ConstantC4]

look at the stick\pump shadow as it moves closer and furhter away , learn something about your floaters.

[ConstantC4]

floatertalk.yuku.com



[Wellingtonnews]

I have floaters. So does a young colleague. Don't stress about them. Just consider them as your own private show!

The one that does concern me, however, is the bit of the back of my eye that fell off.

[flashman2012]

if you have a retina detachment or tear, the dr might also remove the floaters. i was lucky. i think.

[SenorZorrozzz]

I live in CT. I know so well what she is talking about! I've had them since I was a little kid. But now, they are worse. I have a thick line that is twisted in my line of sight in my left eye for example. I have like a one cell floater that is dead on in my line of sight in the same eye. Each eye has so many floaters ...man, help! Is there anyone doing this in the northeast?

Thanks folks.

[ABNanto]

They won't do this surgery unless it is a extremaly EXTREME case. Has high fail rate and people can go blind very often from this surgery. Most doctors won't touch it. Only best of the best performe this.

[happiezdaiz]

anybody here who is under 40 and yet still have floaters???

[GWsavedMYlife]

@happiezdaiz

I was 37 or so when I first recognized I have floaters, I was very worried, but the doctor said it was nothing serious, wasn't very friendly and thought I panicked for nothing, I got used to them now, but sometimes I think there are more of them now, if it gets too disturbing I'll go to another doctor who hopefully cares about my worries...

[GianfraidoPertollesi]

after seeing this video, floaters disappeared : )

[conspiritor2]

@GianfraidoPertollesi he he as it is that easy...

[Psyonexis]

Got my floaters thanks to boxing. After a few days i saw flashes and floaters and went to a Dr. He said that i got a beginning to a retinal detachment. Got that fixed tho but my floaters remain. Stupid boxing :,(

[brockshelgren]

Is this surgery recommended for monocular people with vitreous syneresis in their only seeing eye?

[djsamsonight]

Is there a way to remove Floaters without this kind of surgery

[babygirl91580]

omg i have always had floaters, but one day i woke up and they were blocking my vision, and it was bad, and i kinda freaked out. went to the eye doctor that day and they didnt see anything they told me it was floaters and to ignore them, it was kinda hard to ignore something in your line of site, and it does work, but it just freaks me out and makes me feel icky lol knowing that its right in my sight and i cant do crap about it, if it gets buy ill be asking about this surgery

[Aohan815]

Wow Dr. Cohen such steady hands! I can only imagine the amount of skill it takes for surgeons to perform these herculean tasks!

[wimpog97]

I've had floaters for 9 years! People that ain't got no floaters cannot understand people that do have floaters. But it is a living hell, because they do not disappear, but progress over the years. Most eye doctors underestimate floaters. There is no treatment that works other than YAG Laser Vitreolysis and FOV, both of which have their pluses and minuses.

I was not able to fully get used to them over the years, and hope to wake up one day and not see them.

[mysteryRR]

same, life is unfair

[Iamwatchvideos]

@wimpog97 sorry im reacting to a post you added 6 months ago, but i "suffer" these damned things as well. And i know we're never going to wake up with them being gone. im so sick and tired of them. i woke up one day and looked to a wall and noticed them: i was 14 years old. FOURTEEN. im 19 now and there hasnt been a single day i didnt notice them and they didnt make me feel bad.

ifucking hate them and want them gone. no matter what.

[mesa134]

@wimpog97 ---copy paste this cure for floater---

1) Quit smoking

2)Eat Healthy

3)Exercise Alot

4)Take 15mg of Zinc a day

5)Drink Lots of water

you should see a great if not 100% improvement

[jesskazen]

@mesa134 this is a bullshit cure if I ever saw one, floaters aren't caused by any of those things

[bostongreatone]

Its a shame but most eye doctors have MarioAlfredos poor attitude about floaters. They can't grasp how extremely debilitating floaters can be in some patients. Sure most people with floaters have a couple of small thin lines that come and go. However myself before my FOVS I had dozens and dozens of globs, spots, lines and dots that never went away that made doing something simple like say raking leaves or driving or shoveling snow a huge exhasuting chore which ended with a headache

[bostongreatone]

I'm sure anyone who has suffered from floaters has rean in to some so called "specialist" like zMarioalfredo. Mario claims that only 90% are happy with their FOV'S!!! Only 90%???? So because maybe 10% have the bad fortune of having problems after FOV then doctors should just not perform it for anyone!?!?! Marioalfredo is just a prime example of a doctor using his title to have power over other people simply because he can. I really hope you develop a batch of floaters in your eyes Mario!!

[bostongreatone]

You are the same type of guy that I had years ago who told me to "learn to live with my floaters". Your ignorance couldnt be any worse. I would like to see you go a week with severe floaters like I had or like many other people have. You wouldn't last very long I can GUARANTEE that!! Dr Cohen is sympathetic to a problem that causes severe problems both with vision and mentally.

[babygirl91580]

@bostongreatone omg your my hero!!!!!

[MrMlo12]

zmarioalfredo, google the words " helen keller floaters" and watch that video. Soon this procedure will be very common.

[babygirl91580]

@MrMlo12 you are also my hero, i didnt know about this thanks for the info

[sonoki82]

Dr. Alfredo:

You are right to warn of potential complications and risks. But I would ask you for the source of your 90% satisfaction figure. I also would ask whether that figure applies to vitrectomies on eyes with conditions other than floaters. The risks are higher if there is an underlying disease or injury in the eye. An FOV should have a higher satisfaction rate than vitrectomies generally.

[sonoki82]

Finally, your statement does not acknowledge that severe floaters can impair vision and impair quality of life. If you remove the patient's experience and needs from the equation, then of course you will conclude that no procedure should be performed. However, a good care provider would ensure that the patient's quality of life is not removed from the equation.

[bostongreatone]

I had two floater only vitrectomys peformed one in each eye to eliminate severe floaters. The surgery worked wonders. It really saved my life compltely.

My right eye is stil floater free after nearly three years and my left eye is 98% floater free with the exception of a few strands that are on the side of my vision and those only came on recently. This surgery will someday be a common practice for floater sufferers.

[canceriancharisma]

where r u from ?

who was ur doctor ?

how old r u ?

do u remember wat technique the doctor used ? 20 G , 25g ??

[jasondalton2602]

will im 19 and i have glaucoma since i was 6 months old every thing was great untill i started going through panic attacks and i notice it was getting bad 2 years ago i started seeing long black thin strings floating around i went to get it checked and they told me that it was floaters and that i lost some vision and i could tell i did to. i see all kind of crazy shit and it reall scares me because im afraid that ill go blind when im older.

[ConstantC4]

this makes my eyes hurt. they should use like 100um pipes for this with a movable ending. fffffffffffffffff

[ale91gnr]

does everyone know the consequences of a vitrectomy?

[kszatmary]

I had a vitrectomy (right eye only) on March 23. Pre-surgery, my right-eye vision was a swirling mass of clouds. I was able to see, but everything looked like there was a fog. I functioned basically on my left eye. Post-surgery, my right-eye vision is clear and sharp, and I can now get every bit of enjoyment out of my 20/20 vision.

[ale91gnr]

So didn't you have some bad consequences by the vitrectomy?

I'm interested because I've a disease like a kind of floater on right eye....thank you

[kszatmary]

I had no bad consequences whatsoever. I was prepared for some fuzzy vision during the immediate post-op period, but surprisingly, my vision was clear from the moment I opened my eyes after emerging from the anesthesia. My eye looked bruised to anyone who was looking at me, but my vision was remarkable and remains so to this day. As I understand it, vitrectomy does involve certain risks, but in my case, everyone worked out far better than I expected or hoped.

[ale91gnr]

thank you very much

[Acibeb]

i'm considering this surgery. have the excessive floaters for the past 25 years still getting worse and they really bother me now... plus the flashes, and every time i'm seen by a specialist, they sey nothing wrong there. idiots!

[TheZooWitchProject]

Excessive floaters are a possible bi-product of heterchromic cyclitis. Worth getting checked out as this condition causes secondary glaucoma and the development of a cataract. I have had cataract surgery and take drops for the glaucoma. I'm due to have a vitrectomy in two days to get the floaters sorted and I can't wait coz they have been more problematic than anything else!!!

[Rickertat]

THIS IS FAKE READ IT ON WIKIPEDIA! EVERYONE HAS FLOATERS UR NOT HAVING A DISEASE! ITS JUST GEL IN THE RETINA OR SOME OTHER SUBSTANCE! Im 13 and i have it

[1960gibsonsj]

If you develop a significant crop of floaters which are constantly visible you will not think it is fake, although you will wish it were. Everyone may have floaters, but everyone does not have large ones. It can be likened to looking through a swirling sea of garbage. Just hope you never find out what I'm talking about!

[horseluver1903]

I'm 14 and they're EVERYWHERE, along with flashes. It makes me want to shoot my eyes out. I literally can't see more than a foot away at this point...

[stephenthehitmanhart]

i got em too man, and im the same age.

[Khaled1Rules]

If you have flashes of light, see a retina specialist! that's retinal detachment.

[poetjohny]

if your eye has flashes so its serious its called "retinal distortion (detachment) ",please see your doctor,you are too young,be extra carefull,see your doctor immediately,i advise you...otherwise in a short term it will turn into permenant blindness!add my msn if you want to have more detail about the problem send me a private message so that i can give my msn to you.hope you'll be O.K

[Emericanization]

im 17 years old, have had 2 detached retina surgeries already, 1 on each eye. i now have a cataract in my right eye followed by hundredes of psetering floaters. i dont know what to fucking do with myself. this is all just too much. i'd give up anything just to see perfect. anything. i pray and i pray and so do others for me, i dont think they'll ever subside. and i have a feeling that im one of the 4523423425 people who need surgery for floaters.

[Isack007]

HEY I GOT A QUESTION THAT PUZZLES ME. HELP ME.

How could eye floaters be seen at night? If they are seen at all. I mean how do they manifest?

Because I see many white dots(pigments) both in day and night, yet more obvious at night.

[stephenthehitmanhart]

SAME HERE i see the white dots too, have you found what causes them? if you do please tell me. please give me your email address if you found anything.

[stephenthehitmanhart]

hey i have the same thing have you found out what those white dots/pigments are?

[loughrey101]

Floaters manifest themselves when light passes through them and casts a shadow on the retina. what you see is not the floater itself but the shadow cast by the floater. you should not be able to see the floater at night unless some light is passing through your eye.

[TragicallyWired]

I'm 25 and I've developed floaters. Probably because I squint too much and I'm sat infront of this fuckin PC all the time.

[tonialuvslecter]

floaters aren't caused by looking at a screen, or squinting.

[TragicallyWired]

So what causes them?

[djedi81]

It is embryonic material that wasn't removed from the eye during your gestation period. They develop into floaters at later age because the fluid in the eye is more of a solid during young age. As the eye ages, the vitreous material becomes more liquid like, and the material is more able to float around.

[TragicallyWired]

The video says they clear in about six months? That true? They're only temporary?

[djedi81]

It varies for everyone. Floaters are generally mild, thus they get used to the few that they do have. They may go away, they may not. A few people however have a lot more than just a few floaters, and it is very distracting. Think of trying to look through a cotton shirt where ever you go. These are the people that need the surgery.

[Khaled1Rules]

If someone has two or three ones only noticeable against the sky, and no tears or anything, do they get worse.

[lndac02]

no they don't but they will never get better either. you have em for life in my experience. I have 35 years of living with the same floaters. sorry!

[Khaled1Rules]

Oh I'm sorry too, about yours also, I noticed, on days I pay attention to it, they're more noticeable, but if I don't I'd have to look for them. Thanks for the advice, I was afraid they would get worse, but they haven't, they may have even gotten better.

[Khaled1Rules]

Mine seem to be getting better, they're much less noticeable now, is that possible? I just started ignoring them, and they seem to be becoming fainter.

[matacheandrey]

floaters have nothing with computer monitor??? ( i am in front of computer most of the day its this a cause of floaters???) PLEASE RESPOND ME

thanks

[djedi81]

Computer monitors won't give you floaters... Although sitting infront of them all day can make you near-sighted.

[Balticmania]

I have 1 or 2 really annoying floaters and I'm only 35! They're more noticeable when I use this laptop!