tiberio (01/20/83)
protein floaters are large protein molecules in the fluid in your eye. the best way to see them is to look into a blue sky and move your eyes from side to side, they follow the currents you set up in the fluid by accelerating and decelerating the eye. when i mentioned vdt's in my previous submission i meant to include things like the tek 4014 (vector storage scope), megatek 7000 (vector refresh scope) and the megatek 7250 (raster refresh scope) which i use. i mentioned facial rashes not because i have any but because some scandinavian study found a link. i figure we have a large population of users and some trends might show up if people simply look for them. seismo!tiberio
puder (01/20/83)
According to my recollection (correct me gently if I am wrong) of an "Amateur Scientist" column in Scientific American recently, the floaters in the eye are usually gobs or chains of red blood cells that have escaped into the interior of the eye. A single red blood cell would be too small to notice, so I don't think a mere protein molecule (or chain of them) would be noticable. Karl Puder burdvax!puder SDC-aBC, R & D Paoli, Pa. (215)648-7555
wookie (01/21/83)
Floaters are more noticeable if you are nearsighted so I have been told and also seem to be more prevelant in the eyes of nearsighted people. I first noticed them during a bright sunny with 2 feet of snow on the ground. People thought I was nuts when I said I could see these spots moving around. That was in 1969 when I was 18 years old and they have been getting worse since. Most of the time I don't notice them or pay attention to them but I wish there was a way to get rid of them! Keith Bauer White Tiger Racing Bell Labs Murray Hill
lee (01/21/83)
I have had floaters for most of my life. Usually they don't bother me but I can recall one time in high school that I couldn't read because they were blocking my vision to a great extent. One side effect of this discussion is that I think about floaters more and thus notice them more which means I am distracted by them more. Lee Moore rochester!lee
bcase (01/26/83)
#R:burdvax:-49400:uiucdcs:31200001:000:410 uiucdcs!bcase Jan 25 23:46:00 1983 Wow!! I thought I was crazy when I saw these things floating around in my field of vision! I thought that maybe they were dust particles on the surface of my eye; my conclusion was based on the observation that I could make them float around (move in my field of vision) by blinking quickly. So these things are really *inside* my eye? Hmmm, do they just get worse with age? Do they `disolve' eventually?
wookie (01/28/83)
>From what I have been told by the medical people floaters just get worse
with age.
Keith Bauer
White Tiger Racing
Bell Labs Murray Hill