What is it called when you have dark floaters in your eyes?

The back of the eye is filled with a jelly like substance called the vitreous humour. As the vitreous humour gets older, strands of a protein called collagen start to become visible within it. These strands swirl gently when the eye moves. Rather than being solid blobs, floaters are actually shadows cast on the retina by these pieces of collagen. This is because light travels through the vitreous in order to reach the retina, so any objects in the vitreous reflect on the retina.

Floaters are linked to the age of the eye and generally affect people over the age of 40. They are most common in people in their 60s and 70s. This is when the vitreous humour starts to shrink away from the retina, causing it to thicken and clump together, and leading to floaters. This is called posterior vitreous detachment (PVD). The debris left at the site where the vitreous separates from the retina become floaters.

Sometimes, as the vitreous humour pulls on the retina, it cause tiny blood vessels in the retina to burst and bleed into the vitreous slightly. Red blood cells in the blood appear as tiny black dots, or may look like a swarm of gnats, or like smoke. As the blood is re-absorbed, these sort of floaters generally go away, although it can take a few months.

In about half of all people, the vitreous humour has separated from the retina by the age of 50. This normally doesn't cause any problems and most people aren't aware that it has happened. Hope this helps. meg

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I'm 53 and had developed eye floaters about 4 or 5 years ago. The doctors told me that they're harmless, but whoever has had them knows how annoying they are. They also said that I could have them "burned off" with laser surgery, but there was no way I was going to "burn" anything off my eyes! So I kind of accepted that my floaters were there to stay.

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Meg's explanation of floaters is excellent. Without knowing the time line of your developing "more and more" floaters, we cannot assess the urgency of your situation. If you have had them for years and have noticed a gradual increase, then the shadows created by the age-related drying of the vitreous is the most likely explanation. Sometime during this time, I would hope that you contacted an eye doctor about them or mentioned them in the course of a general eye examination. If you have not, then do so, and expect the doctor to dilate your pupils and use a variety of bright lights to examine your eyes. These are needed to examine the periphery of your retina to see of some of the more serious conditions mentioned in the previous answers.

If nothing serious is found, then you will just have to live with your pet floaters, as I and many others do.

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They are called floaters, I have them too, and I recently went for my yearly eye exam and the doctor told me there isn't anything they can do about them. He says they are harmless, unless you have a sudden increase in floaters, which could indicate retinal detachment. I would say if you haven't had an eye exam recently it would probably be a good idea to get one, they can examine your eye to tell you if there is a problem.. It is very rare that there could be a serious problem, pretty much they are just a nuisance that you kind of have to deal with.

the floaters are called floaters.

Have you seen an ophthalmologist or optometrist about them? A sudden increase of floaters is an early symptom of many diseases.

"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. " You need to check out this website asap.

Hope it is nothing!

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/spotsfloa...

Heavenlys answer is pretty good. I get these floaters too. Have had 'em since i was young. To me they look like what cells look like when you view them under a microscope. I can usually see them really well when looking at a clear blue sky and when i was younger i used to pretend i was a fighter pilot and try to 'lock on' to planes in the sky with the floaters (like they do in Top Gun etc)