Re: Floaters and gravity

Keizer wrote:

Basically your floater seems to have a similar motion response to
rapid eye movements as my floaters, although my floaters drift back
faster (witin a minute). The observation that my floaters finally
drift back to its original position suggested to me that my floaters
are fixed within the vitreous gel, which is elastic and viscous, but
not fluid (if it were fluid, the floaters would sink to the bottom
instead of returning to their original position).

Agreed. And my mainfloater cluster really does return more quickly than "a few minutes", most of the time.

You said you have had retinal surgery, did that include vitrectomy? Is
your vitreous now fluid instead of a gel?

T'other eye. Left eye pulled a detachment ~20 months ago now, probably due to vitreous shrinkage. Sometimes it doesn't cleanly pull away from the retina, and causes a tear.

Surgeries started with a buckle, then vitrectomy, another tear, another vitrectomy, oil fill, gas injection (*that* was fun, with just a local in the orb!), lens and capsule removal, hypertension, treated with drugs, followed by 4-5 months of profound hypotension, as the cilliary bodies basically shut down, leading to macular swelling and a retinal fold. Now, I'm pursuing a contact for the major correction, and since I need a small plus lens on my right eye, I'm hoping to add enough cylinder to the left to at least partially compensate for the fold...

Worst part is, the virtually useless left eye used to be my better one.
Getting older sucks!

Dave
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