I have to wait a second or two after staring at something before I can actually see it so all the floaters can float out of the way.
Does this go away? Is there anyway to move this stuff our of my eyes into the blood stream where it can be excreted?
Plus, my eyes are so dry.
Posted by FreakShow (Member # 16200) on :
I would like to know about this also?
Posted by nwisser (Member # 15682) on :
Yes, this is a symptom that bothers me a lot, too. I like to go bird watching, but it's difficult to see the birds that are at a distance, especially because they don't cooperate by sitting still while the floaters do their thing. A home remedy book I have says to take 2000 mgs of vitamin C every hour for 16 hours, for just one day, and it will get rid of them. I haven't done it, partly because I doubt it and partly because I would need a day when I could just keep running to the bathroom all day.
Posted by abigail (Member # 14936) on :
I just had my first LLMD appt. on Sept. 17. He asked me about the floaters. He said a lot of his patients describe quite accurately the spirochetes as the floaters. He gave me sulfaacetamide sodium opthalmic solution, USP, 10% for my eyes. I like it...
Posted by BOOB00 (Member # 17526) on :
Floaters are tiny pieces of your eye tissue sloughing off. Your eyes get rid of them naturually. But when under a great deal of stress and with age more of the tissue sloughs off.
You should see your eye doctor immideately! If you are having so many floaters you can't see well, then your retneas could be detatching. Please see your eye doctor.
Posted by lymie tony z (Member # 5130) on :
Ahhh Yes,
Very very common with lyme diseased individuals. 1.) Translucent specks of various sizes and shapes that float across the visal field.
These are due to small bits of protein or cells floating in the vitreous...called Muscae
Volitantes, when they happen to appear as black specks seen floating around the vitreous humor
of the eye.
According to what I've read they are mostly benign phenomenom however...
Perhaps the ones that your llmd says are shaped similar to the Lyme Spirochete, are really
Spirochaeta belonging to the
class Schizomycetes includes the families of Spirochaetaceae and Spirochaetales ....
Perhaps the patient or the llmd is having just a little fun with you or pulling your Spirochae-
TALES....LOL
Of course the little dead chetes bodies and some alive,
I should'nt wonder, can be seen in sperm and urine....with a pretty powerful microscope.
Of course I would'nt want my eye too close to their sources, in either case!
Sure, fluid is fluid...why not!
zman
Posted by Dawnee (Member # 15089) on :
My floaters are not just "tissue". Mine are little dots (looks like hundreds of em) all moving in a frenzy. With the occasional weird bigger round thing with a "center" to it.
I do have another thing like a constant floater...it is always there like it is part of my eye or something. It never changes shape, and looks like a big, wispy comma.
Posted by cjnelson (Member # 12928) on :
I am adamant believer that these are ketes!
I dont think its just a coincedence that they look exactly like the black and white graphics that look like "x-ray" ones I have seen
my daughter sees them as well and from her description even more than i do and she has been to opthamologist will clear vision, no tears noted at all - if they were tears they would see
and doc admited that!
Posted by lymielauren28 (Member # 13742) on :
I'm with CJ! I know that I'm seeing spirochetes. They look just like they do in the pictures and they're not immobile. They move around and change shapes constantly - really wierd.
Lauren
Posted by lymie tony z (Member # 5130) on :
I Really think y'all need to take a step back and calm down a little bit...
I would suggest you read my post as apparently some of you did not.
If it's finally found out to be true that these floaters are indeed pieces of dead or even live
spirochetes(which I find remarkable)then this may or may be a natural way the body has of
purging pathogens. In tears. which would be a good thing.
Just watch where you cry. You would'nt want to inadvertently infect someone else just
by "crying on their shoulder" or something!
I can say to those who might be panicky about them...don't be...
I've had them all thru my relationship with lyme and TBD's and of course lately they are a
lot less then they had been in the past.
The big problem would be if the cyst form of the disease decides to start taking up residence
on your Optic nerve....it is a nerve after all and we know ole Bb likes them....
Add to the fact that there have been lymies who have gone blind....just as in syphillis.
The Spirochete species of pathogen seem to like the Optic nerve in particular...for unknown reasons....
So, if I were any of you out there, worried about this phenom....I would stay on any
medication that would rid me of, or at least SERIOUSLY DEPLEATED the LOAD OF CHETES in my
body. At the same time of course trying to rid oneself of the many known or unknown co-
infections you may have contracted along with that tick(or whatever)bite.
Good luck zman
Posted by Dawnee (Member # 15089) on :
My "keet" load in my vision was waaaaaaay worse when I had to take a break from abx (ran out) for two weeks. Since restarting abx, there isn't nearly as much frenzy moving in my vision. I found it interesting... it lets me know the abx really is keeping them at bay.
Posted by jamieL (Member # 16563) on :
Mine look like perfect circles with a center to them.