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I tend to notice those "eye floaters" more as I get older. I find that white backgrounds on the screen make them a lot more noticeable, so I now use dark modes
by scrapheap 4y ago
I tend to notice those "eye floaters" more as I get older. I find that white backgrounds on the screen make them a lot more noticeable, so I now use dark modes in some apps and have changed my desktop's background colour to a darker colour.
- Silica6149 4y agoDid the eye doctor say anything about the amount of your floaters? I was warned that if I started seeing a lot more than what I currently do, then it's an emergency...
- scrapheap 4y agoA sudden noticeable increase in the number of floaters should definitely be treated as an emergency as it can be symptom of some conditions that result in blindness if not treated quickly.
- boredemployee 4y agoyep. i have been suffering with some new floaters since some months, but just went to see the doc recently and he said its all good with my retine, i still need to do other complementary exams tho to make sure. might be valuable to add that i found out that toxoplasmosis can be responsible for it and, coincidentally or not, i got a cat since last year. let's see whats going on.
- morninglight 4y agoThanks for the heads-up about toxoplasmosis. This was something new for me. I just Googled "toxoplasmosis eye floaters" and almost fell off my chair. Very interesting.
- boredemployee 4y agofelt the same way! it's incredible how easy one can get fucked up for these tiny parasites out there.
- twobitshifter 4y agoI just got my first floaters and they’re very distracting, I didn’t realize it was a common condition until the eye exam. I was told that my brain will filter them put as they become known but that they never go away. The concern would be if i started seeing flashing lights or they were very dark floaters.