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I plan on posting at least once a day on the site, so readers can get a good feel of what it is like to live with floaters and visual snow. Today I'm going to try to give you an idea of what it is like to see with a bad case of floaters. Imagine a dirty fishbowl which hasn't been cleaned in weeks. Now hold that up to the light, peer through the glass and look to the other side. That's what it is like to see with floaters.
Now move the fishbowl from side to side and let the liquid slosh around. Imagine the debris inside moving up and down and side to side. You'll find yourself trying to look around this debris to see more clearly what you are trying to focus on. Not only are floaters annoying, but they also momentarily block your vision every time one comes into your central line of vision. The more floaters your have, the more often one enters your central line of vision. I have some trouble with reading because the floaters settle in places where the words are grayed out in places on the pages. The same thing happens when I'm working on the computer. I can't go outside without my very dark sunglasses. The floaters are one hundred times worse out there because of the sunlight. They cause my pupil to constrict and the shadows I see go from gray to black. It's hard to count the number of floaters I have between my two eyes, but at least 30. |
