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Floaters laser treatment

  • 20-01-2014 10:50am
    #1
    Seanachai
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    Is it possible to treat web like floaters in the eye with laser and if so is the treatment available in Dublin?.


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  • #2
    Mousewar
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    Yes it's possible. A YAG laser if I recall correctly.
    I don't know of anywhere in ireland that does it. I doubt you'd find anywhere doing it commonly outside of America.
    Are your floaters very bad? - surgery is a fairly extreme solution and doesn't work altogether brilliantly I think. I have them. There's a lot if i pay attention to them but I ignore them mostly.


  • #3
    markcahill1985
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    Mousewar wrote: »
    Yes it's possible. A YAG laser if I recall correctly.
    I don't know of anywhere in ireland that does it. I doubt you'd find anywhere doing it commonly outside of America.
    Are your floaters very bad? - surgery is a fairly extreme solution and doesn't work altogether brilliantly I think. I have them. There's a lot if i pay attention to them but I ignore them mostly.

    I have these as well over the last year, two quite big ones in my left eye and one big one in my right, they are very annoying as they are dark coloured and very noticeable at times! I find wearing sunglasses helps mask them quite a bit! A lot of people say they learn to ignore them as time goes on, hopefully thats the case! Dont think there is surgery for them in Ireland, once asked my Doctor about this and he basically laughed at the idea.


  • #4
    Seanachai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Seanachai


    markcahill1985 wrote: »
    I have these as well over the last year, two quite big ones in my left eye and one big one in my right, they are very annoying as they are dark coloured and very noticeable at times! I find wearing sunglasses helps mask them quite a bit! A lot of people say they learn to ignore them as time goes on, hopefully thats the case! Dont think there is surgery for them in Ireland, once asked my Doctor about this and he basically laughed at the idea.

    I wouldn't go as far as having surgery to be honest , I try to avoid it at all costs for anything. Doctors in Ireland laughing at a request that would be reasonable in other countries doesn't surprise me at all.


  • #5
    Mousewar
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    It's very possible to ignore them. I had to describe what they were to my brother who didn't know what I was talking about. Told him to look at a white wall and see if he could see these black floaty things. After a few seconds he said, 'Oh yeah, hundreds of them.' He never noticed them until then. Your brain is very good at ignoring what it doesn't need to see. For instance, your nose is always in your field of vision and you never notice it.


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