Several weeks ago, I had gotten up in the middle of the night for a trip to the washroom, and DOINK!! – my right eye hit the wall which caused a bit of trauma. (See diagram illustrating how this task was accomplished.) In hindsight, I was overly confident with my ability to make that all-too-familiar trip – eyes closed.
My eye was hurting a little, but as it didn’t feel serious enough for further action, I followed my heart-felt inclination to climb right back into bed.
But the next morning when I woke up, uh-oh! I was haunted by a network of long, fibrous floaters twisting and twirling in my right eye.
It bothered me so much that I had to do some google research for my condition.
According to the American Society of Retina Specialists (asrs.org), for severe cases of floaters, some may opt for vitrectomy, which surgically removes the vitreous gel that filled the cavity inside the eye. A saline solution would then be injected to replace the drained vitreous gel.
Laser is another option that can break a large fibrous mass into smaller bits to make it less bothersome.
As I didn’t feel ready for either one of these options, and there’s literature that mentioned floaters caused by acute trauma may improve over time for some, I kept my fingers crossed that I’d fall into this category.
The following is NOT advice, it’s just my personal choice: As I thought there’d be nothing to lose, I also started using an OTC, herbal remedy for eye-health that some herbalists and Chinese medicine practitioners have mentioned on Youtube.
A month has gone by and lucky for me, my condition has much improved and I am, by and large, able to ignore the floaters’ dimmed and tamed existance. Thank goodness!
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