Lasik Eye Correction

Eye problems...?

Ok, I'm not so sure when this started but I seem to have problems with my eyes. Whenever I look at something, or move my eyes, I see these "lines." Now, most of you guys probably won'y understand, but theyre just lines, and some are like circles. When i look at the sky, a lot of them appear. The "lines" are just floating around in my vision. Does anybody else ahve this problem? Does anybody know how to get rid of them?

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1. put some eye drops on
2. Eye Problems=Drs Visit
3. You need to seek medical attention for that.
4. go 2 the doctor. it sounds serious.
5. lsd
6. This could be any number of things: actually "stuff" in your eyes, migraine symptoms, over exposure to bright light, or a more serious issue. The best thing you can do is see an optometrist ASAP. Good luck.
7. Sorry to tell you this but my mom had a similar problem and it turned out that she had Glaucoma. This is an eye disorder where the aqueous humor(fluid in your eye) doesn't drain out. This causes a build up of pressure that can damage the lens of your eye. this pressure is what causes lines or cracks to appear in your line of sight. If left untreated it can cause blindness, I recommend that you visit an eye doctor and get an appointment for an eye pressure test. This may not be the cause of your problem, but better safe, than sorry. Bye.
8. I believe the most likely thing the lines and circles you are seeing are called vitreous floaters! Here is a picture of what they look like! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Floaters.png If what you are seeing looks similar to this picture then you have floaters! Floaters in most cases are very normal and occur very commonly in people that are nearsighted! I see floaters as well! Every time I look at a plain background or when I look at the sky! Floaters are actually tiny clumps of gel or cells inside the vitreous, the clear jelly-like fluid that fills the inside of your eye. Floaters may look like specks, strands, webs or other shapes. Actually, what you are seeing are the shadows of floaters cast on the retina, the light-sensitive part of the eye. Floaters are USUALLY quite normal and can accompany a headache. If you suddenly see new floaters, or eye floaters accompanied by flashes of light or peripheral vision loss, it could indicate serious conditions such as diabetic retinopathy; vascular abnormalities such as retinal hemorrhages or carotid artery disease, or the beginning of a retinal detachment. The retina can tear if the shrinking vitreous gel pulls away from the wall of the eye. This sometimes causes a small amount of bleeding in the eye that may appear as new floaters. You should see your eye doctor immediately There are no medications available that are effective in treating most floaters. Patients with floaters due to inflammatory eye diseases may be helped by medicines to treat the inflammation; however, the floaters may remain after the treatment. Although floaters can be bothersome, most people learn to ignore them. A vitrectomy or laser treatment can be done to treat floaters but they would have to be pretty serious to do so! They can be annoying but best thing to do is ignore them and they go away :) What I do is when I start to see them I do not focus on them... I just focus on the objects I am looking at and then I do not even notice the floaters anymore! If still have any concerns about what your eyes, it would be best to see an eye doctor for an examination :) Hope that helps a bit hun :)
9. You are going to get a LOT of answers for this. The eye has basically 3 layers. The outer layer is white, and in the front it becomes the clear part, the cornea. That's where they do all that LASIK surgery stuff. The colored part of the eye is part of the second layer. It has a hole in the front called the pupil, behind which sits the lens. When the lens gets foggy, that's called a cataract. As the iris, the colored part goes back beneath the white part, it becomes a vascular layer called the choroid. Lots of vessels. The third layer is the retina, and it goes about 2/3 of the way from the back to the front and stops about 6-8 mm behind the edge of the white part. The center of the eye is hollow. OK it's not really HOLLOW, but it's filled with a gel called the Vitreous. The vitreous is very thick in babies, and gets thinner and thinner in older people. It's made up of collagen fibers with coats of mucous like materials. As you get older, it'll have some breakdown and the little fibers will bang against each other and stay connected. If this happens, they become visible when you look at certain types of things like a gray sky, white wall, lots of things like that. Sometimes there are cells in the vitreous and you can see them as dots. The vitreous is attached at the front of the eye behind where the clear part and white part connect. This is the vitreous base. Behind this strong attachment, the vitreous lays against the retina but isn't tightly attached. It is a bit more attached at certain blood vessels, around the nerve and around the center of the retina, the macula. If the vitreous pops off the back of the eye and starts floating around, one can sometimes see the ring that was attached around the nerve. Also, as it floats, it'll attach itself to other portions of the vitreous and those strands become visible under the conditions you describe. All of this is NORMAL. If you tug enough on the retina, at the base area, you can tear it. Those tears may bleed, maybe not. If the now liquid vitreous gets under that tear, the retina can float into the middle of the eye. That's called a retinal detachment. That's NOT normal. The vitreous detachment is normal in adults, but I had one in one eye when I was a teen, so it'll happen then too. Getting rid of them? Well, that's not something most retinal surgeons will do. Since everyone has these floaters, it's sort of a get used to it thing. But on occasion, if the floaters are severe enough to block vision, a vitrectomy can be done. It does risk the eye. There are conditions where the vitreous becomes more visible or has more stuff floating in it such as blood, calcium salts (Asteroid Hyalosis), cells from certain types of systemic diseases such as leukemia, metastatic tumors, diabetic hemorrhages,....stuff like that. Most are really rare. Most just learn to ignore them or enjoy them. They do go away eventually (80's)...
10. They're called floaters. You're perfectly fine! It's very common with those who are nearsighted. I get them alot too.