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Jul 2 07 10:36 AM
Hi JoMofo (great name btw)
I believe that only you can tell whether the are bothersome, but the main criteria for floater serverity in my view is:
number:- are we talking one or two like most people or an eyeball full? A good analogy I have heard for a bad situation is "its like looking through a dirty fish tank" .
proximity :- are they smack in the middle of your vision or in the periphery or both?
movement:- do they only bother you when you move your eyes rapidly or in a way you wouldn't normally unless you are looking for them?
size:- are we talking a couple of salt grains or large thumbnail sized opacities?
density:- do they obstruct vision when looking through them. Can you see them in the dark?
These sort of criteria tend to weed out the casual suffer from the chronically affected. All of these criteria will obviously help your surgeon spot your floaters and hopefully be honest and empathetic if they are an issue.
Personally, I know there are people with worse floaters than the ones I decided to get sucked out with a vitrectomy 3 weeks ago. Some people have them so bad that they struggle to read entire lines of an eye chart because they are so large and dense. I have only had one eye operated on and prior to the operation that eye had floaters large and dark enough to be seen with my eyes closed in a fairly dimly lit room.
On the flip side people have likely gone ahead with a FOV with floaters a fraction as bad as mine or yours. Either way it doesn't matter. 1 or 100 floaters, if they are ruining your life then take action. You have had them long enough to make the right decision.
Hope this helpsl.
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