Butterbur
23-09-20, 11:34
Hello! I'm new here. :D
About a month ago I went to see the optician (I have regular checks as I'm quite short sighted) and he asked about floaters, flashes, halos etc etc.. I said I had floaters, as I have done for as long as I remember, but for some reason since then I've been noticing more and more, I never thought about them before (I'm 16 now). I have a long one with a knot in the middle, a long g shaped one, a sideways 'm', various other chain-y squiggles, some dots, and 2 big vaseline like worms. He did a thorough check of my eyes and said everything looked healthy. For some reason my anxiety has just taken this full on, I look at the sky almost obsessively now, and was even worried I'd damaged my retina after I stared for too long and got a bad after image aha :blink: . This morning I noticed that one on the far left, which made me panic, since it's pretty big I'm surprised I haven't noticed it before, although I'm fairly certain I've had it all this time and it's just not usually centre on. I suppose what concerns me is how much worse are they going to get, they're age related too so I haven't hit that part yet.. I know they mean no harm but how can I get my anxiety to chill out? I keep locking myself in the dark, I still see them outside with sunglasses, although the sunglasses do help the anxiety. Half of me thinks it's just my constant erratic eye movement trying to see them that's welled some of them back up haha. Anyone else have similar ones as a teenager? I had a similar worry about an ear problem I have, but as soon as the anxiety lessened about that, this cropped up. :dry:
About a month ago I went to see the optician (I have regular checks as I'm quite short sighted) and he asked about floaters, flashes, halos etc etc.. I said I had floaters, as I have done for as long as I remember, but for some reason since then I've been noticing more and more, I never thought about them before (I'm 16 now). I have a long one with a knot in the middle, a long g shaped one, a sideways 'm', various other chain-y squiggles, some dots, and 2 big vaseline like worms. He did a thorough check of my eyes and said everything looked healthy. For some reason my anxiety has just taken this full on, I look at the sky almost obsessively now, and was even worried I'd damaged my retina after I stared for too long and got a bad after image aha :blink: . This morning I noticed that one on the far left, which made me panic, since it's pretty big I'm surprised I haven't noticed it before, although I'm fairly certain I've had it all this time and it's just not usually centre on. I suppose what concerns me is how much worse are they going to get, they're age related too so I haven't hit that part yet.. I know they mean no harm but how can I get my anxiety to chill out? I keep locking myself in the dark, I still see them outside with sunglasses, although the sunglasses do help the anxiety. Half of me thinks it's just my constant erratic eye movement trying to see them that's welled some of them back up haha. Anyone else have similar ones as a teenager? I had a similar worry about an ear problem I have, but as soon as the anxiety lessened about that, this cropped up. :dry: