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From: rft@ihuxb.UUCP (Tamos)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: floaters
Message-ID: <1204@ihuxb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 08:30:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 08:30:42 1986
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> 	When  I look  at a  light  surface,  I see  small  round  things
> floating  by -  particles  of  some  kind  in the  eye  fluid  (aqueous,
> vitreous,  something  like that?).  Anyway, this is probably  normal for
> most  people.  The  problem  is, *I* see big  blobs of  floaters  (whole
> collections  of round  particles).  This is usually  not very  annoying,
> except  that I happen to be a student,  and all the  classes  I'm in are
> taught using  projectors with  transparencies,  so I'm often in the in a
> semi-darkened  room looking up at a big bright screen with some stuff on
> it,  and the blobs of floaters are immensely  magnified and distracting,

Get to an opthamologist NOW!!!  It seems as if you have had floaters for
a while, but the change for the worse is serious.  I got my floaters after
a detached retina, not before.  You do NOT WANT to go through the experience
of a detached retina.  Time is CRITICAL when it involves retinas.  An extra
day can make difference between sight and blindness.