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Hey there fellow floaters, firstly I am sorry for every one of you that has to suffer. I have been following the board for the last 10 months, ever since the evil floaters decided to rear their ugly squiggles, dots and cloudy heads. It is great to have a community that I can share this with, as I have been feling very depressed since it happened and my personality has completely changed. Here's my story - I was going through a lot of stress at the time and was suffering from terrible headaches, migraines with visual aura (which lasted for about 20 mins), and fatigue. I was probably at the peak of my stress when I was driving to visit my mum, half way through the 3 hour journey I had a very debilitating migraine attack where I had to stop the car holding my face until there pain passed, the pain felt as though it was in and behind my eyes. The next day when I woke up I noticed a very small and defined squiggle in my left eye floating around, I could see how it was all linked with the cells and lines, I had never heard of foaters so thought my eye had been scratched or had something in it. Over the next week it became very bothersome as it was in my field of vision and had grown and when i was outside it was very large, so I went to the eye hospital who examined my eyes and advised they thought it was a problem with the brain because I have had meningitis before and I also suffer from fibromyalgia so I was sent for an MRI scan and saw a neurologist - all tests proved fine. Nothing was diagnosed at this point, not even that it could be a floater. After that my eyes started to feel very heavy, very painful to move, almost like they were being twisted from behind, and I developed a real sensitivity to light - my floaters then started to appear thick and fast. After another couple of eye dilation tests, I was advised that they could see changes of my vitreous and I was also sent to have a 24-hour glaucoma test as my optic nerve looked damaged, these tests have shown that I have fluctuating eye pressures and they are keeping an eye on me for glaucoma. The last visit with the opthamolgist I had I told him how the floaters are effecting my life - I fear going outside and will not leave the house which has damaging effects on my 3 year old son and my relationship with my husband, I have quit my job because the drive in was such a nightmare and having to deal with the light shining through the windows. My vision is also very blurry and I can not recognise peoples faces - I believe it is the floaters that are making my vision blurry because when I squint my eyes they are everywhere. I am used to having a successful career, and loved nothing more than sunbathing and being outside. I am now, at 30 years old, confined to dark rooms and unable to take my son outside. I told the opthamologist that I wanted an FOV and that I had been in contact with a surgeon who could perform it (Mr Patel) but could not afford the quoted £4000 for each eye. To my surprise he referred me to a vitreo surgeon and told me it was performed on the NHS, he said the referral will take 3 months and I would hope to get surgery 3 months after, so I would be floater free within 6 months. My life suddenly seemed worth living again. My referral came through within a month, and I had my appointment about 2 weeks ago, the surgeon said he could see my floaters but they are just normal and should not be causing the distress that I described, he said that I will get used to them and in the meantime he would get my doctor to refer me to a pyschologist to deal with them but he would no way refer me to have an FOV, when I told him I would get it done privately he told me I was insane and anybody performing any kind of treatment for floaters (laser or FOV's) are charlatons who are robbing people for money and possibly eye sight. I left the room in floods of tears. I am now so deflated, distressed and confused, I honestly don't know how I am going to cope. I am not sure whether to believe the surgeon and I am now looking in to other options and have been in contact with Brendan Moriarty's clinic for info on laser - I live in south west england. Can anybody advise on my situation; who has had good/ bad results of laser or FOV, who is the best person to see for my type of floaters; the right eye has one large squiggle type floater, which is linked to strings and cloud and is very big, it branches off and has millions of dots swirrling around, it is almost like the smoke and strings link it as the defined squiggle bit is further away, left eye has 3 floaters which lay lower than my field of vision normally, occasionally rising but more clump type floaters which aren't as bothersome, I can live with these, not ideal but they are like annoying flies which i don't focus on as much. Any advice will help, or even if you just want to share you story, I really hope one day in the near future we can all be cured.