I was catching up on my reading when I read in a post about bugs swimming in eyes!!! AHHH!
I have had floaters (that is was doc and eye doc called them) for MANY years and have gotten worse with allergies and eye infections.
My eyes have this discharge - mostly clear sometimes yellow tothe point that I can rarely wear my contacts anymore and I think that I see things that really arent there. Esp. when driving at nite.
Is my brain really leaking?????
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
You probably need some abx eyedrops. The people saying they can see the spirochetes in their eyes are mistaken.
Spirochetes are microscopic. Floaters, however, are very common with Lyme and can resemble "bugs".
Your brain is not leaking!! Posted by frakktured1 (Member # 13028) on :
Oh I don't know about all that leaky brain syndrome there TUTU.
I mean after all....all of us are just a lillt bit different.
What might seem like floaters.
COuld very well be microbes....ya never know!
Just think about it for a minuete?
If your blood brain barrier gets puncktured as a result of antibiotics then I don't see why some of the brain fluid would'nt want to leak out?
Would you want to stick around if you saw something new and indescribable? Trying to get inside your home? Escpecally for say, oh I don't know
even an ilk,,,,,,I'm trying my best not to worry her any more than she already is///but so much of this disease is still unknown...
imagine if they were honest to goodness spirochetes swimming by failing to relinquish the blood brain barrier, magnetic force
dispensation credentials before they decided to exit. Why we would have all kinds of undocumented spirochetes running all around our bodies..... ,
It also could be
Ever hear of earthbound spirochetes that have been made into flying spirochetes/ just from the earth's rotation relative to the moon and sun...
causeing the chetes to panic and leave the BBB.
FOR greener(OR REDDER AS THE CASE MAY BE) pastures to eaT????
wE SHOULD PROBABLY ASK those more well versed in this subject, if there's any way this can happen....
I'll be glad to differ to them or Marnie for that matter...
i know she can break down the more scientific aspects to laymans terms so all can understand what I was trying to pass on.
fxd
[ 23. September 2007, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: frakktured1 ]
Posted by TerryK (Member # 8552) on :
FLOATERS took on a whole new perception of meaning this week to me.
i also have diabetes 2 and had my annual eye specialist exam checking for diabetes/lyme in my eyes.
SURPRISE! I learned I have EARLY diabetes retinopathy meaning I'm losing my eyesight to blindness!
symptoms: cloudy vision and FLOATERS!!
we have have just passed off floaters non-chalantly here on the board. now, i'll never do this again.
i read the informative article link terry posted.
floaters can mean a DETACHED RETINA also; i had a co-worker this happened to; very painful.
anyway, i hope you all are having ANNUAL EYE EXAMS to stay on top of your lyme and diabetes should you have that too. best wishes.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by frakktured1: Ever hear of earthbound spirochetes that have been made into flying spirochetes/ just from the earth's rotation relative to the moon and sun...
causeing the chetes to panic and leave the BBB.
FOR greener(OR REDDER AS THE CASE MAY BE) pastures to eaT????
UH......NO..??
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
For what it's worth, you could try drinking some mangosteen juice. I stopped all eye symptoms by drinking it. I drink the Ultra brand, and there are lots of brands out there. Drink it with a lot of water. The juice is powerful. It's an anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory juice. Cleared up all eye symptoms in 24 hours. Grounded all flying sp-eye-rochetes...
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by Robin123: Cleared up all eye symptoms in 24 hours. Grounded all flying sp-eye-rochetes...
Posted by spinsterwitch (Member # 12969) on :
You should always report new eye symptoms to your eye doctor. Floaters, if you had them before lyme, are probably just a continuation of what you have and shouldn't cause external discharge. Call your eye doctor, for sure.
Posted by hostbody (Member # 12695) on :
I've seen a Neuro-Opthamologist because of my eye symptoms. He told me the following:
Lyme does cause increased floaters and can cause blindness.
Lyme spiroketes love to live in the fluid-like matter that is in our eyes.
Oral antibiotics do not cross the blood-brain barrier, so the eyes would be an ideal place to live.
I have a sort double exposure vision when I herx. Like a photograph with a picture on top of a picture. My eraser (doctor's term) doesn't work right when I herx.
Also, I believe you - that you are seeing the spiroketes. I see them too at times. They do not look like floaters, but like a clearish squiggley little things. Hard to describe.
I see a lot of them at different layers in the matter in my eye. I don't always see them, but if the light is just so - I see them.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Doxy can cross the BBB.
Spirochetes are microscopic.
Posted by daisys (Member # 11802) on :
I have floaters.
I have also seen little flicks of light that move and stop quickly and go in every direction. It was when I was looking into the bright sky, so I think I was seeing light reflected off the spyroketes.
The pattern of movement was the same as looking thru a microscope at some living, microscopic life.
This happened before I knew about lyme. I assumed I was seeing some tiny bugs in the air, because it never occured to me that it could be something inside my eyes. My husband couldn't see them, but remembers me describing it and trying to get him to see them. I thought the reason they were going such short distances before stopping was because they were hitting something like dust particles in the air.
I hope it never happens again, I'd freak out now knowing it's little viscious monsters inside my eyeballs!
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
OK, I surrender and am throwing in the towel. Posted by spookydew (Member # 8432) on :
I don't think they are floaters either.
Posted by MamaWolf (Member # 10578) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lymetoo: OK, I surrender and am throwing in the towel.
*picks up discarded towel and waves it around wildly*
I wouldn't presume to tell anyone what they may or may not perceive that they see BUT I would like to add my 2 cents in here. (with inflation I know that doesn't mean much )
There is also something that is called "Scheerer's phenomenon" or "blue field entoptic phenomenon".
This is basically the ability to see white blood cells traveling through in the squiggly capillaries of your retinas... especially when looking at a blue light. (like the sky)
When a leukocyte travels through.. it makes a wiggling motion. The link below is very interesting and even has an impression of this phenomenon.
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