Diabetes Talking

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Anybody every experience these?  I have had them for over a year now, just little dots flying across my vision almost like I was walking through a pack of mosquitoes.  They are worse in the sunshine, but I also have sensitivity to light. Ring a bell??

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Yup, I had that too for about the last two months.  Kinda almost looked like it was raining.  I told my doc about it and he gave me "the look".  Had me go to the eye doc who also gave me "the look" but checked out my vision and said every thing was ok.  My sensitivity to light came before the rain/dot thing started to happen. Patti :} – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Amanda Rowe wrote in message <01bd192d$93cf48e0$2de2869f@default>… >Anybody every experience these?  I have had them for over a year now, just >little dots flying across my vision almost like I was walking through a >pack of mosquitoes.  They are worse in the sunshine, but I also have >sensitivity to light. >Ring a bell??

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"Amanda Rowe" <aman…@tinet.ie> writes: > Anybody every experience these?  I have had them for over a year now, just > little dots flying across my vision almost like I was walking through a > pack of mosquitoes.  They are worse in the sunshine, but I also have > sensitivity to light. > Ring a bell??

Every now and then I see wierd spots, but there aren’t too many. I’m in college (but I’m 29) and sometimes it looks like the words on the page are covered with moving patches of light and then the words move around. I hate fluorescent lights! Melissa

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Amanda, This helped me to clear the floaters from my vision when they bother me. The ophthmaologist told me to look up as high as my eyes will go while holding my head in a normal forward position, in order to clear the floaters from my vision. It works for me. Hope it works for you, too. Best wishes, Paul – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->From: "Gary Vincent" <ga…@primenet.com> >Date: 4 Jan 1998 09:52:01 -0700 >Yup, I had that too for about the last two months.  Kinda almost looked like >it was raining.  I told my doc about it and he gave me "the look".  Had me >go to the eye doc who also gave me "the look" but checked out my vision and >said every thing was ok.  My sensitivity to light came before the rain/dot >thing started to happen. >Patti :} >Amanda Rowe wrote in message <01bd192d$93cf48e0$2de2869f@default>… >>Anybody every experience these?  I have had them for over a year now, just >>little dots flying across my vision almost like I was walking through a >>pack of mosquitoes.  They are worse in the sunshine, but I also have >>sensitivity to light. >>Ring a bell??

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I was quite shocked when my floaters first appeared.  It’s been well over a decade now, and I mostly just see "around" them, rarely notice them anymore.  I was also shocked when my eye doc told me, "Oh yes, this happens to people as they age."  One of those things no one ever tells you, so you think you might have cancer or something.  I notice them mostly in bright light when facing a flat, one-colored surface, like a white wall.  Sometimes there are new ones and I notice them for a little while, then no more.

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>The ophthmaologist told me to look up as high as my eyes will go while holding

my head in a normal forward position, in order to clear the floaters from my vision. Thanks for the hint, Paul.  I love it when someone has an idea that might actually help, instead of telling me it’s just something I have to live with.

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In article <68oenh$…@nntp02.primenet.com>, "Gary Vincent" <ga…@primenet.com> writes: >Yup, I had that too for about the last two months.  Kinda almost looked like >it was raining.  I told my doc about it and he gave me "the look".  Had me >go to the eye doc who also gave me "the look" but checked out my vision and >said every thing was ok.  My sensitivity to light came before the rain/dot >thing started to happen. >Patti :}

I’ve had ‘my little friends’ for several years now.  I do notice them more in the sunlight. I also know about ‘the look’.  My eye dr, and rheumi gave me the same looks.  Who knowes, maybe just another MS thing!!!!!!! Linda, M…@aol.com

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> look up >as high as my eyes will go while holding my head in a >normal forward position

thanks paul, i’ll try it tomw. morning with my coffee, book and morning floaters. i usually try blinking & shaking my head, doesn’t help the floaters but it does help wake me up–especially when i spill the coffee while doing it.  Incidentally, if all else fails, just consider them your very own "virtual pets." Bob

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On 4 Jan 1998 22:46:58 GMT, bobwrit…@aol.com (BOBWRITES1) wrote: >thanks paul, i’ll try it tomw. morning with my coffee, book and morning >floaters. i usually try blinking & shaking my head, doesn’t help the floaters >but it does help wake me up–especially when i spill the coffee while doing it.

Please be sure to check out new or sudden increases in floaters.  A couple of years ago, this newsgroup sent me promptly to the ER when my vision began to have many large black spots.  It was a detached retina. Don’t assume MS until a good opthamologist looks at your retina. Kate

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yes, i see this too and wondered what it was. thought maybe it was a sign of diabetis.  but i thought, no, go God. ms is hard enough. cozkit

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>Don’t assume MS until a good (MEDICAL SPECIALIST CATEGORY HERE)  looks at your

(BODY PART WITH NEW PROBLEM HERE) excellent advice across the board, kate. i did, no retina problems. you know folks, incidence of floaters increases with age. .my advice? get yourself one a them there dorian grey portraits <g> semi-seriously though, blaming everything on ms is probably the leading cause of dying from ms.

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This sounds pretty weird and my gp looked at me kind of funny when I told him, but I have a floater that looks like some kind of a larvae.  It looks like a fine filament that is bent at the top.  It doesn’t move and when I knod my head it seems  to not move with my head.  Another weird thing – I noticed fter my attack that it wasn’t there until I got over it.  Am I the only one with this. I just see it when I close my eyes and am in bright light.

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> I have a floater that looks like some kind of a larvae.

I’ve noticed that "my" floaters look like a whole array of micro-organisms.

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>I have a floater that looks like some kind of a larvae.

i’m trying to train my floaters to act as a cursor when i’m reading tonngue in cheekly, Bob

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