boy
11-08-07, 01:39
Now I've had it for 8 weeks I can describe my symptoms more accurately than I did before. I know what floaters are, I've had them all my life and they never bothered me, but these are different, I want to make this clear from the otuset.
I loathe going out in the sun (or just outdoors with clouds, as long as I'm surrounded by sunlight) because I inevitably have small dark dots dart into my vision when I move my eyes. Some are small and black; others are larger and clear grey and rather cell-like in appearance. Then there's a type that's like a tiny tiny clear glass dot that catches light. These drift into my vision every minute. I can't just ignore them; they're there. You try ignoring a fly buzzing in your face.
I don't get this indoors per se, though I see occasional grey circle ones (never the black dot ones) sinking past my vision when I'm looking at light colours on the computer monitor. Of course this also happens if I'm indoors and the room's filled with sunlight if it's a really sunny day. Basically, it doesn't happen with electric light.
This happens in both eyes seperately. I can close one eye and there'll be a dot; closing the other and there are no dots, or maybe a different type of dot, so I'll see both when both eyes are open. As I say, I know what floaters are and I get bunches and strings of bright white clear cells in my right eye.
Also when I blink, in my right eye I'm seeing a sort of 'electric' weird colour cloudy squiggle thing like the imprint left after you look at a bright light, for a really quick split second when the eyelid opens.
Sorry I'm so descriptive, but you can't be vague about symptoms like this. I've seen people talking about 'sun spots' which sound like what I'm expeiencing. Anyone able to confirm this and elaborate?
I loathe going out in the sun (or just outdoors with clouds, as long as I'm surrounded by sunlight) because I inevitably have small dark dots dart into my vision when I move my eyes. Some are small and black; others are larger and clear grey and rather cell-like in appearance. Then there's a type that's like a tiny tiny clear glass dot that catches light. These drift into my vision every minute. I can't just ignore them; they're there. You try ignoring a fly buzzing in your face.
I don't get this indoors per se, though I see occasional grey circle ones (never the black dot ones) sinking past my vision when I'm looking at light colours on the computer monitor. Of course this also happens if I'm indoors and the room's filled with sunlight if it's a really sunny day. Basically, it doesn't happen with electric light.
This happens in both eyes seperately. I can close one eye and there'll be a dot; closing the other and there are no dots, or maybe a different type of dot, so I'll see both when both eyes are open. As I say, I know what floaters are and I get bunches and strings of bright white clear cells in my right eye.
Also when I blink, in my right eye I'm seeing a sort of 'electric' weird colour cloudy squiggle thing like the imprint left after you look at a bright light, for a really quick split second when the eyelid opens.
Sorry I'm so descriptive, but you can't be vague about symptoms like this. I've seen people talking about 'sun spots' which sound like what I'm expeiencing. Anyone able to confirm this and elaborate?