Hello,
This is my first time posting but have been reading these boards for about a week now. I have been suffering from floaters for the last 2 years now with one big one in my left eye and cob webs forming in my right eye recently. Im 27 years old and a software engineer.
At the beginning I had major panic attacks. I felt my life was over and with no comfort my doctor tells me there is nothing wrong with my eyes and I have perfect 20/20 vision, so just live with it. Man that was tough to handle! But eventually they didnt bother me as much to the point where I know they are there but they didnt affect my everyday life.
But just recently I took a trip into the mountains and started noticing sparkles all over my vision in both eyes. Man was I terrified! I had a terrible cold while in the mountains and thought that was the issue. Well its been almost a week back home Im still congested in the head but Im still seeing the "sparkles" in my vision, mainly when Im outside. Im having major panic attacks again and very nervous. I went back to my doctor and he checked out everything he could and he still says there is absolutely nothing wrong and I have perfect 20/20 vision.
I have read that this could be entopic phenomenon and that its perfectly normal. How can this be normal? Your telling me everyone could see sparkles in their vision? If it is normal why all of a sudden? I just pray to god that it will go away or at least subside once this head cold goes away, but Im worried that because now I see them my brain is trained to notice them all the time it will never go away. I cant live life like this. Please someone give me some words of comfort. Im going to see my regular doctor on Monday, most likely to get some pills to calm me down.
Life sucks right now, it truly does. It took every ounce of my energy to get used to my floaters, but now this? It just is to much, I find myself getting light headed as well, I think this is due to my panic attack. I find myself wrapped up in a blanket in my dark room with my wife holding me to comfort me. I cry myself to sleep like a little baby and its hard to say these things but I just need to let it out. If floaters and sparkles are so normal why does it make me feel this way? And to think the medical field has no real answer except live with it or have risky surgery. Its just to much and the only reason why Im hear still is because of my family. Please can someone provide me with some comforting words. Could this possibly go away with time? Has anyone gotten "over" them?
Im sorry for the long drama post but Its just been very difficult these past few days. Anyway to get to what I want to do. Im going to register a domain and start my own quest to one day find a reliable cure for floaters. I know a lot have taken this step and I see sites are no longer up. So I would like to take a crack at it. If anyone is interested in helping me, perhaps with articles and updates in the medical field please email me at:
liquidchaoss@yahoo.com
This is my first time posting but have been reading these boards for about a week now. I have been suffering from floaters for the last 2 years now with one big one in my left eye and cob webs forming in my right eye recently. Im 27 years old and a software engineer.
At the beginning I had major panic attacks. I felt my life was over and with no comfort my doctor tells me there is nothing wrong with my eyes and I have perfect 20/20 vision, so just live with it. Man that was tough to handle! But eventually they didnt bother me as much to the point where I know they are there but they didnt affect my everyday life.
But just recently I took a trip into the mountains and started noticing sparkles all over my vision in both eyes. Man was I terrified! I had a terrible cold while in the mountains and thought that was the issue. Well its been almost a week back home Im still congested in the head but Im still seeing the "sparkles" in my vision, mainly when Im outside. Im having major panic attacks again and very nervous. I went back to my doctor and he checked out everything he could and he still says there is absolutely nothing wrong and I have perfect 20/20 vision.
I have read that this could be entopic phenomenon and that its perfectly normal. How can this be normal? Your telling me everyone could see sparkles in their vision? If it is normal why all of a sudden? I just pray to god that it will go away or at least subside once this head cold goes away, but Im worried that because now I see them my brain is trained to notice them all the time it will never go away. I cant live life like this. Please someone give me some words of comfort. Im going to see my regular doctor on Monday, most likely to get some pills to calm me down.
Life sucks right now, it truly does. It took every ounce of my energy to get used to my floaters, but now this? It just is to much, I find myself getting light headed as well, I think this is due to my panic attack. I find myself wrapped up in a blanket in my dark room with my wife holding me to comfort me. I cry myself to sleep like a little baby and its hard to say these things but I just need to let it out. If floaters and sparkles are so normal why does it make me feel this way? And to think the medical field has no real answer except live with it or have risky surgery. Its just to much and the only reason why Im hear still is because of my family. Please can someone provide me with some comforting words. Could this possibly go away with time? Has anyone gotten "over" them?
Im sorry for the long drama post but Its just been very difficult these past few days. Anyway to get to what I want to do. Im going to register a domain and start my own quest to one day find a reliable cure for floaters. I know a lot have taken this step and I see sites are no longer up. So I would like to take a crack at it. If anyone is interested in helping me, perhaps with articles and updates in the medical field please email me at:
liquidchaoss@yahoo.com

