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petethebloke says:

There are times when you'll see your eye capillaries, but it's a lot more common to see threads in your vitreous humour and I wonder if it is these that you're experiencing? I'm no expert and it took years of wild guesses before I finally established what my vitreous floaters actually are. They appear as pale jointed threads that drift around in one's vision especially in bright light or when using magnifying lenses e.g. microscope, telescope. These threads - so I was told - are minute amounts of blood from old bleeds.

Myopia goes hand-in-hand with mis-shapen eyeballs, and the result is often that the vitreous humour becomes detached from the retina. The detached part might then become a weiss ring - I've got "the biggest one" that my optician had ever seen! This appears as a murky blob in my line of vision. Very irritating, but it's unusual for it to last long or to be particularly disabling.

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posted on 2010-09-26 17:47:05 | Report abuse

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tbrucenyc says:

I have some floaters too. If I roll my eyes, they get out of my forward vision.

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posted on 2010-09-30 14:20:27 | Report abuse

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petethebloke says:

That's the normal way of things. Unfortunately it doesn't work quite as well with a weiss ring - especially if it is a long way forward in the eye. I estimate that my vision in my left eye is imperfect 50% of the time due to the greyish haze of the weiss ring. Time leads to some improvement and gradually the vitreous humour changes in consistency allowing the floaters to dissipate. My reassurance comes from the fact my right eye also has a weiss ring and it annoys me a lot less than it used to.

Anyway, all that is slightly off-topic.

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posted on 2010-10-01 10:18:45 | Report abuse


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