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I never thought that my floaters were due to the lasik surgery that was done in my right eye. When I first started to get floaters, I read what I could online, and I found out that it's just something else that happens to people's eyes, like becoming near sighted, and there's nothing anyone can do about it (except let someone zap you with a laser and pray to God).

Well, now I'm very curious indeed. I had LASIK done in my right eye, but PRK in my left eye, and don't have any floaters to speak of in my left eye. However, there may be some there, and it could be a coincidence, but in my right (LASIK) eye there is one nasty floater, not all that big, but in my field of vision at least 90% of the time, and it's always bothered me whenever I tried to read anything, or even just to go for a walk. It's there, causing eye strain, because I reflexively strain my eye to make it go away, which it only does a small fraction of the time anyway, but this is an involuntary reflex unfortunately. God dammit, I can't just stop and ignore it. I've tried. I'm still trying. I try every day, and yes, I'm -slightly- better at ignoring it now than I was a year and a half ago when it appeared.

My job performance has definitely suffered as a result. I had a not too spectacular job doing data entry, but I was pretty good at it, and then after the new floater showed up, both my speed and error rate became among the worst of all employees. It was embarrassing, but I didn't dare to reveal to my boss that it was due to this new floater, and that it was something that was never going to be fixed.

I would never ever consider getting laser surgery done if I were to do it over. Then again, I still need glasses for everything, just like before. I'm amazed that there are leading sports figures like Tiger Woods that have had it done without getting results like mine. They must get some sort of VIP treatment that I was not privy to.

I'm using an eye patch to cover my right eye as I write this; it's the only way I've found to give myself any relief. But it's also completely unnatural to see with one eye like this, and gives me a different kind of headache. Maybe if I give it a lot of time? Has anyone with floaters in one eye used an eye patch to fix the problem?

Now I'm wondering about seeking -more- laser treatment to fix what happened the first time (for the floaters). Ugh. I still wear glasses. In fact, they're basically the same prescription that I had before the laser procedure. Presumably, that would imply that had I not had the procedure, my glasses would be twice as thick as they are now? Maybe. Thankyou TLC!