• ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    Fun fact, this is because your vitreous humour is shrinking and as it shrinks bits of it congeal into little protein strings. They’re called floaters, but some people laugh whenever I say that for some reason.

    If you get a bunch of new ones all of a sudden it may mean you’re at increased risk for retinal detachment.

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      6 days ago

      To help the the confusion, “floaters” can refer to when small chunks of poop dont flush and instead stay floating during the flush.

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        My ex told me to stop calling them floaters because it made her think of poop. Thing is, that’s literally what they’re called.

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    7 days ago

    I have a permanent eye floater. When I get really bored I find suitable things in my field of vision to look back and forth between and play pong with.

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      7 days ago

      Hopefully you had your eyes checked just to be sure.

      It’s likely just a glass body part which is normal sadly.

      But also could be something with the nerves , no panic just a thing my wife got similiar stuff and gets checked yearly to be safe.

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          2 days ago

          Awesome to hear ! , allways better to let stuff get checked out else you could miss something that could get treated before it gets bad. thanks for the update.