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Black spot in my field of vision
DirtyDirtyVagrant
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So occasionally (very frequently as I type this), I'm seeing a dark spot float around on the edge of my peripheral vision. My vision seems fine. My head is clear, my eyes are focused, I can see fine. But that spot. What might it be?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters
I think the guy above is jumping to a radically wild conclusion.
The more likely suspect is that... yeah, it's floaters. Do they move when you try to pinpoint them? Do they just... float across your vision?
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I hope for his case that it is not retinal detachment, but seeing as how "a dark spot on your peripheral vision" is indeed a symptom of impending retinal detachment, I would seek professional medical attention. Unless he can afford to go blind?
Original Poster: if the dark spot gradually moves toward the center of your vision, it is a medical emergency. I'm not trying to be dramatic. This happened to my mother in law (seeing dark spots) and about 48 hours later she had lost her vision entirely, and required eye surgery to restore it.
I rather nip it in the bud now.
Everything seems so much clearer now.
anyhoo, my mom works with an eye doctor, and she says to go see one immediately.
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Unless you've just not been having a lot of sleep or something. Even then.
I've never had a problem with my eyes at all. The one exception is that I had minor lazy eyes when I was a kid that my dad never saw fit to correct. I later found that they were uncorrectable after a certain age, which pisses me off, but anyway.
I don't have insurance of any kind right now, so paying for an eye-doctor visit (much less a surgery) is out of the question.
I think you will be more pissed off if you go blind and then find out you could have paid for a doctor visit to keep it from happening...
More than likey though its a floater. When I was like 16 I went through a phase of being a borderline-hypochondriac, and noticed a bunch of things in my vision when I was outside on a bright summer day. So I freaked out thinking it was retinal or vitreous detachment and went to the eye doctor, got referred to an othamalogist and a neuro-ophthalmologist, turned out it was just floaters and my eyes changing after I had a huge growth spurt.
That was just my experience, in case you absolutely can't go and need some reassurance -- those kind of problems are extremely rare in young people unless they're the result of injury as far as I know...I'd still go though.
If its accompanied by changes in your visual acuity or peripheral/central vision then you need to pawn something and go because those are the big warning signs
From what I know, they're pretty darn harmless, the real see-through-floaters that is. Unless you see a bazillion of them a lot.
Not at all. They are just random cell material in your eye that comes into view occasionally. Everyone has them, some worse than others.
To the OP. Floaters do not change eyes. You are just seeing them in both eyes. See an Opthomologist if you are concerned. but it is most likely nothing. No pain involved, right? No blurring or inability to focus?