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Posted by Pantsinsocks (Member # 7440) on :
 
I was laying down looking up at the clear blue sky yesterday, and the backdrop gave me an unusually clear and detailed view of the floaters I have in my field of vision.

Unlike the usual specks and semi-fuzzy gunk, I could see minute detail in many of them. And what I saw fascinated me.

Maybe 20% of the stuff looked just like I was looking through microscope in in biology class - at some type of microorganisms.

They were long, clear, and thin, and made of many short segments. They generally are curvy or fold around on themselves.

There was no signs of motion or being alive. They looked more like "pieces" of organisms.

Moving my eyeball "swishes" more into my field of view, and I can exert some minimal level of control of washing them in a given direction.

So, I'd really appreciate your responses on these questions:

1. What are these floaters? Could they really be pieces of microbes ? If so, which ones ?

2. Where in the eye are they ? It makes me think they are in the fluid on the outside of my eyeball, but I dont know. (I am tempted to get a microscope and look at my tear drops on a slide !)

3. Do any of your LLMDs or research you've encountered talk about floaters actually being pieces of microbes ?

4. Have any of you seen floaters that look as I have described ?

Many thanks !


[ 09. July 2006, 05:49 PM: Message edited by: Pantsinsocks ]
 

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Posted by dtiffen02 (Member # 8993) on :
 
Normal floaters often look like worms, spiroketes, threads, dots, and and so forth. Fibers and strands of collagen condense within the eye and clump together as the vitreos gell breaks down and turns liquid. In terms of possibilities of seeing an "organism", I suppose one could see actual intraocular parasitic worms as these would be large enough to cast a visible shadow on the retina, though this is almost certainly not your problem.

If your worried see a retinal specialist and have them perform a slit lamp exam. If there are organisms in your eyes (unlikely), they will see marker cells/lesions/inflamation.
 

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Posted by SForsgren (Member # 7686) on :
 
I disagree. Bartonella and babesia are common causes of eye problems and I don't think an eye doctor is going to see them there with any conventional testing.
 

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Posted by dtiffen02 (Member # 8993) on :
 

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Originally posted by SForsgren:
I disagree. Bartonella and babesia are common causes of eye problems and I don't think an eye doctor is going to see them there with any conventional testing.

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