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mad_scientist
Did you get corrective laser surgery? But does not that just cut away your cornea so that vision be corrected as cornea refracts light too, so less the width of cornea, less will be the light refracted. How would reducing corneal width effect floaters? hmmm
Well i am not sure that the floaters went away in direct relation to the surgery, but i was told that certain floaters like black spots with a white ring around it as well as just white and black flaoter spots are normlly caused by stress in the eye's. Like for example i would get them sometimes after being on the computer for 8 hours straight or when conducting heavy physical work loads.
I sometimes get the floaties that look like...ummm ...worms or trash, like it's floating on the liquid that protects the eye or something?
The surgery was done quickly, i don't now the whole precedure....I don't ask questions...but he didn't use a blade to cut the cornea, it was all done by laser in less than 32 seconds for both eyes! Amazing difference though. The eye that got smashed in the subway a couple years back is much better now. He fixed or eliminated some old scar tissue that cleared it up for me, a little. I still have to wear a full eye protector (a contact that is tinted, and covers the entire eye) I hate those things...if you think regular lenses are bad...try the ones that cover the entire eye, and they cause head aches because the eye can't...fully breath so-to speak.
But it's an iprovement, I used to only be able to see light and obects in motion but extremely blurry, Now I can actually see out of it....somewhat..
He told me my eye's would be less stressed because the eye muscles don't have to work as hard...if you get what i'm saying, thus eliminating some of the spotting i used to get.....or he could have been BSing?