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Dennis,As stated by others, floaters are more than likely a symptom of a serious problem with the retina in particular if accompanied by flashing lights in the eye. In some cases a delay in seeking treatment[ie hours!] may result in a permanent reduction in your vision or worse still a loss of legal sight.I have experienced this trauma,please do not delay in seeking specialist advice and treatment.Thanks to prompt treatment my sight was saved.Even so one has to learn to live with the resultant floaters.Wishing you all the very best.
Roy Hebbes
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THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT FLASHES OF LIGHT INDICATE DAMAGE TO THE RETINA!!!! SEE A DOCTOR!
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Speaking from experience, you had better carry yourself to an I surgeon immediately. You likely need emergency laser surgery as I did. I did not fool around like you have done but got to a surgeon the very same day. He performed the laser surgery that day and I saved my vision.
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Dennis,
I had a sudden extreme increase in the amount of floaters about three years ago. It was so bad that it really scared me. I called the specialist (I forget if it's an optometrist or an opthamologist) and related my problem. He scheduled me an appointment for that very afternoon, and said that it COULD be a detached retina. It turned out that it was just an extreme number of harmless protein floaters. He said there is no cure, but to take heart, that in time many of them would settle to the bottom of my eye and the rest would not be nearly as unsettling after I got used to them being there.
I was very concerned about my sporting clay competitive shooting, and how they would affect it. I went to the range the next afternoon and shot the highest score of my life. They are still there, but I never notice them anymore. Get checked to be sure, but if they're the harmless protein floaters life will go on as usual.
All my best, SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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I appreciate all the concern about the lights i see and told my eye doctor about it years ago and he said floaters were causing the problem.I have small black specks sometimes also and several people in the blinds around my stand ask what i was shooting at and come to find out it was floaters instead of doves! No wonder my shooting average was a lot worst than Stan's!!! Bobby
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Sidelock
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Tell you eye doctor about it, again! The situation could be macular degeneration.
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I have mascular degeneration,the dry type and take Ocuvite every morning and keep it under control.Bobby
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