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I have a lot of floaters in my Left eye, and I mean a lot.
I went to a specialist 8 years ago to see what could be done. When I was 12 I was hit in the eye with a stone, luckily no real damage however now the large amount of floaters are due to the impact.
Inside the eye we have fibres that run from one side to the other and from back to front. Some parts of the fibres break off and we see them as floaters.
The specialist told me that at around the age of 65 the fibres begin to break off more rapidly and that mine have detached early, probably due to the stone.
Early! I said, as I was only 27 at the time.
What can be done? What they do is suck all of the fluid out of the eye , pulling the fibres out with it and replace the fluid with a synthetic fluid. The highly possible side effect is developing cataracts in the repaired eye.
I chose to put up with mine, I only notice them when looking at things with light backgrounds like the daytime sky or computer screens. But yes they are very annoying.
My right eye is good and is the one I use when looking through the scope.
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