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I've had eye floaters for years but they seem to be getting worse. I get a discarge from my eyes that I actually have to remove, a sort of lump of white stuff - this is worse in the mornings and then in the middle of the affternoon.
The only way I can describe them is it is like looking through cobwebs and when I concentrate to look at them against a white backround they are long segmented ribbons - just like the picture of borrelia on the Lyme photo's website...anyone know if these are actually ketes that I'm seeing?
I also have a couple of black spots that never move from my field of vision. I've been to the optician and says that my vision is fine. Just wondering if anyone has found out anymore about this particular sypmtom
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How does lyme disease affect the eye? Fortunately, involvement of the eye is uncommon in lyme disease. But when the eyes can be affected in many different ways by the disease.
In the early stage of the disease, many persons have conjunctivitis. In this condition, commonly called pink eye, the eyes are red and uncomfortable, and there is a discharge of pus. Unlike many forms of conjunctivitis, the type that occurs in lyme disease is not contagious.
In later stages of the disease, inflammation of the eye may develop. Parts of the eye that may be affected include the uvea, the middle layer inside the eye, the cornea, part of the outer coat of the eye; the iris, the colored circle around the pupil, and the choroid, a layer of blood vessels in the eye. Ocular symptoms can include sensitivity to light and floaters (spots in front of the eyes).
Inflammation of the optic nerve (optic neuritis) also can occur, which results in visual loss. Loss of vision can result from inflammation in the brain as well.
Persons who develop Bell's palsy may be unable to blink or close their eyes. This dries the cornea and can result in an infection or even a hole in the cornea, which can endanger vision if not treated promptly
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I had tons of floaters- had them for years- I took high doses Doxicycline and floaters dissapeared over 15 month period--
Floaters have been gone for 8 months or so--Jay--
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MiMoMa, Floaters were one of my first symptoms and they seem to get worse when I'm tired and/or on treatment(or herxing). They've been terrible lately as have a whole host of other eye things.
I went to the neuro-opthamologist last week to check. He said there are a lot of floaters but other than that everything looks fine. I had been seeing bright flashes in my left eye and he said these were the floaters banging into my retina (and something else, can't remember).
He told me to come back in 2 months and he'll recheck it. In the meantime he said if it happens more frequently or there are a lot of those lightening flashes all at once to come right back in.
He said that as you get older and wiser (I had to laugh at the wiser) you get more floaters. It's the vitreous fluid in your eye gelling I guess.
I do know from past experience that the floaters get better or at least much less annoying after I've been treated or have enough sleep. For the longest time they only bothered me on the day after I stayed up too late.
Sometimes, not always, if there are floaters in a particularly annoying spot in my vision field moving my eye up and down and side to side a few times moves it a little. Yeah, I must look awfully peculiar in the car waiting at a stop light doing that. <- this is me doing that.
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I also have had floaters, which are there all the time now. They started about 2 years ago with vitrious detachment when I lost vision out of the corner of my eye. It has now cleared somewhat.
Had my eye tested last week by an optometrist (she measures me for contacts) and she said "wow you have a lot of floaters. Next week I am seeing an opthomologist because I have some pressure in my eye that can be caused by the Plaquenil that I take and is something to keep a watch on.
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I have floaters and flashes. Among other symptions,this is why my md checked me for lyme. I also at times have pain in rt eye and change in prescription closer together. Within a yr. Gets worse with herx. Also sensitive to light.
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mmm, what you described as looking like Borrelia bacteria gives me a sense of relief that i haven't been imagining things about my annoying floaters; to me, they sometimes DO look like spirochetes when i get a bunch of them. i ususually have only 1 or 2 in my left eye only (in 2001 i was bitten on my left thigh, and most of my problems since have been rather one-sided);however, i never noticed any floaters before the bite, so i figured that my blurry,double vision and constant eye irritation were all from Lyme,also,which my opthalmologist confirmed. however, i never heard anyone venture a guess about the "sqigglies". i'll bet that's what they are, since they're supposed to have been found in tears by researchers.
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