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anyone experience LOTS of floaters after starting treatment?
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Beverly
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Hi tyevansmom,
Yes, lots of floaters, but it got better. I did have worse eye stuff with doxy and mino though, not as much with zithromax.
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I have floaters. LLMD said they are a LD symptom. Been on abx for 7 months & floaters are much less frequent.
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CaliforniaLyme
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I had to see the world through a fog of floaters but after IV Rocephin they are 100% GONE!
-------------------- There is no wealth but life. -John Ruskin
All truth goes through 3 stages: first it is ridiculed: then it is violently opposed: finally it is accepted as self evident. - Schopenhauer Posts: 5639 | From Aptos CA USA | Registered: Apr 2005
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Y'all are s-o-o-o fortunate. Before either of us was diagnosed with Lyme, my husband had what the doctors called "the biggest floaters they had ever seen". It was like gray curtains would dropping over his eyes completely obscuring his vision. This happened everytime he would go over a bump, shake his head, and at other odd times. They removed the floaters without telling us that one of the side effects was rapidly-growing cataracts. So at 48 he had cataract surgery (this is four surgeries now). So far he has had one lens polished (eye dr office, thank goodness); and he needs the other one polished now. He's just turned 50 and was diagnosed with Lyme a year ago. We live in the "Sunshine State" where they would like you to think there are no Lyme ticks!
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I've had floaters for years. I even asked my Optometrist about the floaters and she said it's due to aging! (I was 43 then) This same Dr's husband has Lyme disease! (how then didn't she know what caused floaters??....and we wonder why our Dr's don't have solid answers or information!)
I never knew floaters were part of lyme until reading here....
Floaters for me seemed to come and go? or was I so used to them I just got accustomed to them?
As I've been on ABX and am aware of "floaters"; they are still there, but seem to be getting better?
so many "things" I'm finding I had, but never gave these "things" a thought...
Lyme disease...the twists and turns...amazing!
The lack of our medical community's understanding is so heartbreaking! How can we as a nation feel comfortable with those who are treating us?
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