I know, yet another PVD topic right? Well yeah, but I really wanted to talk about my issues and hopefully realize maybe I'm not doing as bad as I think.
The first time I ever saw what I guess would become eye floaters I was in grade school, my grandpa, who was about 60 at the time, told how you could see tiny things inside your eyes if you squinted by a bright light, I remember seeing something and then never thinking about it again.
When I was about 18 I got my first real eye floaters, it was quite frightening at first, got to see an eye doctor and had a retinal exam with dilated pupils, he found nothing wrong. It was annoying but eventually I managed to ignore most of them even if I could still see them.
This July/August I suddenly realized, after waking up, that I could see many more eye floaters than I did before, at least 3 or 4 times as many if not more. I remember I was dealing with eye strain at the time, and because I had had floaters before I tried not to think much about it, even though there was obviously something out of the ordinary. One day I woke up with a blurry eye, which may have taken at least about 2 or 3 minutes to clear up but then mt vision was back to normal.
In October I also started seeing, for the first time, eye flashes. I had seen "stars" before after spending several hours on the computer, but this was different and happened at any time, small bright dots that disappeared in less than a second.
So I finally started getting really worried and went to my eye doctor, the same one who had seen me 12 years ago, he got my pupils dilated, took some photographs and took a well look at both of my eyes. He also did a regular eye exam to see if my vision had not abruptly deteriorated since, which it didn't. He found no signs of tears or detachment on any retina and asked me to come back in a year for another checkup.
So apparently this is all due to regular PVD, at 30 years old, which to be honest made me feel quite satisfied, at least until the next day.
A week has passed since my appointment, and my symptoms have changed, my eye floaters are still many but they appear to be less and are less noticeable, I had a big one that I could see all the time, even in low light, now it's still there but it feels smoother and maybe a little bit smaller. It also appears that some of the smaller floaters might have grouped together at the edges of my eye, because I see these thick lines fall down whenever I look up and then down. left and the right or viceversa. They look dark outside and actually white inside, as if there was light in them. The flashes calmed down for a couple days but incidentally today I had what I think was the worst one yet, before they looked bright but seemed like stars in the night sky, today this big one looked like a camera flash, and several other smaller ones.
So if you've read at least some of my story I'd appreciate it if you could help me understand this better. Does this sound like normal PVD, with symptoms changing within these weeks? If I had no damage done to my retina when it was checked out, am I still at risk? My vision has not gotten worse, and I have not had peripheral vision loss to my sides, when is the right time to come back for a checkup with these symptoms? What else can I expect?
I have dealt with anxiety for many years and health issues always brings the worst of it for me, so this is really a problem for my mental state, I keep checking for new symptoms all the time and seeing if the lines and floaters change, I have literally caused myself eye strain for looking for them all the time, it makes it very difficult to concentrate at work or anything in particular.
Thank you for chiming in!