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Do floaters in eyes mean that a doctor can see
something in a person's eyes or that person can see
things floating around (like spots)?
I had some wired sensations going on with my eyes
last night while in a store.
I couldn't see right.
Not sure how to describe what happened.
I had just complained that the store seemed very
bright to me.
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Hi Cathy,
I don't know if a dr. can see it, but I can see the floaters, esp in bright white/against a light background.
My brother, who was recently diagnosed with Lyme has a lot of vision problems, from flashing bright lights, to floaters, to problems with things 'moving', I guess he said they look like they are shaking.
I have floaters and sometimes I have a lot of problems reading things that aren't far away unless I squint. I'm 30 years old and I've never needed glasses.
I would talk to your LLMD to let him know. What meds are you on?
One of my daughter's first symptoms--prior to us knowing that she was even ill at all--was her mentioning that her eyes felt fuzzy and blurry and she could see floaters before her eyes.
Turns out it is a symptom of Lyme or one of the other co-infections. She also used to complain about having the feeling that an eyelash was always irritating her eye or feeling like it was about to fall into her eye--these feelings all stopped when she started meds and also came back fairly quickly when her meds were stopped.
Hers aren't migraines, more frontal and eye pressure pain.
I get migraines--and don't have Lyme as far as I know--and the pain is always preceded by a weird "aura" of me not being able to quite seen anymore with a shaking, hazy "spot" surrounding my field of vision--it is very annoying.
This usually lasts for about half-an-hour, and then the pain of the migraine hits. The good news is that as soon as the "aura" comes on, if I take a homeopathic remedy, I usually can avoid the onset of the migraine pain.
Do you have migraines? Do migraines run in your family?
I've had migraines since 16, usually around my period, but bright lights, some foods and smells, and stress can bring them on as well. I'm actually been getting them a lot more lately and completely out of the blue--so you really never know what will bring them on.
(I've never taken prescription meds for them, usually homeopathics, but when they don't work and I really need to be functioning, I've found Excedrin Migraine to be my miracle drug--pain is gone in 45 minutes max, and I'm good to go! Wish the same were true for my daughter's headache, but the Lyme-induced headache is a whole other beast.)
Good luck.
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Hi, I also see increasing floaters in my eyes recently (from nothing in two weeks ago). but i also have migraine. i really don't know which dr i should see.
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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 v\ery interesting and even has an impression of this phenomenon. "Scheerer's phenomenon"
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Light sensitivity, especially to fluorescent lights, is very common for lyme patients. My computer is in a closet (door off, though) as I cannot bear the light in my apt. during the day. This has many reasons but for most, when the neuroborrelia is properly treated, this improves.
MAGNESIUM and fish oil will help. Dark berries and other anti-oxidants, too.
If you have floaters, although often common, sometimes they can be serious. It might be good to have your eye doctor take a look and instruct you on when this is important and when it's not so much so.
Here, you can see a photo of one sort of floater, although they can also look like a piece of dark link or spots, etc. -
Vision: Natural Ways to Maintain Eye Health - By Jim English
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