bn216,

Well, I responded to your message in the other section but I can add infos here. Basically, let me tell you that what you are going hrough is standard for floater sufferers. They suck, it's all sudden and when you find out theres nothing to be done about it then you're depressed. I don't think you are fussing for nothing, floaters can really mess your concentration and I am happy mine didn't come until after I finished school.

Let me respond to your questions with complete honesty to what I think (I don't think you want lies just to pump you up?):

1) Hard to asnwer this one correctly as everyones floaters change differently but I would say the chances of them being non noticeable is pretty much non-existent. In other words, no they won't go away if they are real floaters and not blood in the eyes.

2) Yep, absolutely, more floaters will come and what's worse is not the number but the movement. THey will move more and more easily in the eyes as time goes by. This is my personal experience: first three years: little change, some bad floaters but not tons, could possibly have gotten used to them for life; year 4 and year 5, big change and now way more floaters and mobility. Floaters is from the degenerating vitreous for most of us and this is a process that gets worse over time, it's like your skin getting worse when you age etc. except that for the vitreous degeneration it does not seem to be related to age that much since people can be born with it and we are obviously not old enough to have that crap.

3) This is where the good news are. Youa re wrong in pretty much all your assumptions. The fact that you are 21 years old will mean nothing to a surgeon who is willing to help you with your floater problem. He will give you the possible problems of the operations (cataracts being the one you must think about the most at your age) and then if you say ok I want the operation he will do it. The problem is finding the doctor who will do that and finding a good one. You can check out the list at www.eye-floaters.com. Those are probably a good start. I'll probably go to Dr. mackool in New York myself. Professor Stalmans in Leuven Belgium is the other big name mentioned here in the forums.

Hope this helped.