Thobes etc.

I've got floaters too. They really spoilt my astronomy.

Eating pineapples is supposed to be good for floaters. I don't have a clue if they actually are.

I can't stand the sickly sweet smell of pineapples.

I eat 2 slices of pineapple for breakfast every day, so sadly they haven't helped me.

Though of course perhaps my floaters would have been even worse without the pineapple.

That's true. You never know how bad it might be if you didn't have a taste for pineapple.

Funny you should say about astronomy - all those constellations people see. I don't see them. People have tried to show me, even standing right behind me and using their own arm to point in front of my face - nothing. I've tried, and I just don't. Maybe that's why.

What do you think caused yours? Do either of your parents have them? Mine didn't/don't so I doubt there is a genetic component to it.

I've wondered if smoke gets in your eyes isn't just a song, because I've been doing that since the age of 11. Or spraypaint maybe - I've often bought cheap old wicker stuff that needs tarted up, or the odd colour change, and I've never worn goggles to do it.

I also had a couple of TIA's or very strange migraines (they weren't sure which) when I was about 19/20, so maybe something there. They were frightening - a pinprick of a flash, a pressure/tingle, quickly spreading across the whole field of vision in the right eye like your entire eyeball had turned into a blue siren light. Followed by exhaustion and depression - a comedown basically, but not drug related, and not alcohol either - I barely drank at that age.

My nan had a slight stroke when she was having her t*ts done, so that's in my notes as a potential risk in case of general anaesthetic.

Lucky you.

This is it...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaurosis_fugax

Blunt force trauma possibly. A boy I was seeing at 14/15 punched me square in the face when I was standing next to a brick wall. The bricks were dented. I'm quite proud of having remained conscious and standing, to offer an unblinking stare as a response. We each understood that would be that, and his friend pulled him down the street. Never spoke to him again.

I read now that current research strongly suggests head injuries of that kind are associated with all kinds of later horrors. Kids aren't supposed to header a football now for that reason.

For some time, in between that and the vision thing, I did have horrific nosebleeds every few months. The kind where a dull thunder like headache explodes and you realise your nose feels wet, put your hand up, and before it gets to your face the blood is pouring out and soaking surfaces. Most attractive at the age of 16 or so.

cosmictanya wrote:
What do you think caused yours? Do either of your parents have them?

I'll ask them when I speak to them next.

I've always had them, they've just got more prominent these last 10 years or so. But my optician says that's normal at my advanced age.

Do come back to me on it, I'd be interested to hear if they or your grandparents were also cursed with the things. Both of my parents have/had 20:20 vision.

It's the reason I've never had corrective laser treatment. That and the original optician who told me I needed glasses also saying to me 'why do you think opticians all wear glasses?' when I asked about lasers.

That's a great look Goldie has going on...



I am also a fan of the epaulette.

Floater update as requested. My parents both report having had floaters, and that the older they got, the more prominent they are, but they both spoke of them as something that came and went over the years - here one day, gone the next.

Whereas my floaters are all familiar friends, which have each got very gradually more prominent the older I've got.

Having said that, it only occurred to me 30 seconds ago - after nearly half a century on this planet - that some of my floaters must be in one eye, and others in the other.

Now I've got to start cataloguing them

TY. Oh dear. That's not good news. I'd hoped for, at least, no worse. As to being in different eyes, yes definitely that's the case.

I wish I was brave enough to go ahead with a nosejob. I'd have hers. Great outfit.

Another great look from the Islamic Republic of. I remain unconvinced that walking across the road sideways is for the best.

I wish I lived in Tehran. I've never been fully able to style the back of my own hair to my complete satisfaction. Mandatory headscarves would solve that immediately.



Maybe now it's short things will become more manageable.