Floaters
No, not that kind, I mean the little dots that are inside your eye somewhere and just serve to irritate you whatever you're doing, particularly when looking at a screen or white surface.

My Science teacher once told me that one can have them removed surgically but they've never annoyed me quite that much. Perhaps if I win the lottery (unlikely - I don't play) it'll become an affordable luxury.

Sorry to all those people that are now noticing their floaters.
(kris kringle I only posted this message to find out the date on, Fri 2 May 2008, 20:19, 8 replies)

I thought
that floaters were just dead cells floating around in the humours inside the eye and as such would just be reabsorbed by the body in time. so surgical removal would be pointless.

But I'm not a medic, so I don't actually know this.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 2 May 2008, 20:21, closed)

I thought
what K2k6 did - they do seem to come and go.

Surgery on the eyes - yuuuuk. I'll put up with them, thanks
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 2 May 2008, 20:23, closed)

My Science teacher wasn't particularly good at his job so you may well be right, but they're damn annoying all the same.

I'd assumed that they were there all the time and I just didn't always notice them but maybe that's not the case.
(kris kringle I only posted this message to find out the date on, Fri 2 May 2008, 20:24, closed)

They're bits of the eyes lining that becomes detatched.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

I find them most annoying when I forget my glasses. Because then they're the only thing that's actually in focus.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 2 May 2008, 20:24, closed)

I have had them
ever since my first brush with Lyme disease.

I fucking hate them.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 2 May 2008, 20:24, closed)

oh my frikkin god
i had these all the way through my childhood.

but i didnt want to tell anyone that i was 'seeing things'

i used to follow them across my line of vision.

THANKYOU FOR THIS POST...
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:07, closed)

achly
most floaters are nothing more than motes of dust caught in the tears on the surface of the eye. i don't mean the sinister inside-the-eye kind. easy way to tell the difference... if it tends to stay kind of static then it's on the inside(brownian motion overcoming gravity). if it floats generally downwards and is normally only visible in bright light then it's just dust on the surface. either way there's fuck all can be done and it probably won't kill you!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 2 May 2008, 21:35, closed)

I have one..
which i have had just below my centre of vision in my left eye for as long as i can remember.

No they do not go away......bugs the hell outta me when driving in bright sunlight.

My optician said not to worry tho and it was normal for people to have them, unless it changed shape or obscured my actual vision, it is just something i was born with.

I wouldn't have surgery to remove it tho ......i've seen how they do eye surgery and it makes me squeam......brrrr
( catswhiskers the cats mother, Sat 3 May 2008, 16:43, closed)