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Good to hear you mad it through @daytonacane You have a glass eye now? Just minimal movement?

No glass eye, just a membrane cover over existing eye. Eye had been drifting to the left which I guess is better than to the right as I would be cross-eyed. This is called exotropia. Good grief, I am learning far more than I ever wanted to know & google enough to be detrimental.
 

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@Gator515151, that sounds scary and I'm glad you immediately got it looked at.
I, personally, think your Doctor is screwing you over because if one eye has flashes and he tells you to keep an eye on it then your other eye will become cross eyed.
Question his authoritie now!
Yeah it sort of freaked me out at first but after going to the Eye Clinic and also what I have read on the internet I don't think is all that uncommon or serious. I think usually it is associated with a torn retina but not in my case. Anyway it has just about gone away now. Driving at night is about the only time it happens now. I do occasionally see the floater in my right eye but even that has lessened. Would kind of like to hear what @EyeDocGator has to say about it though.
 

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My question to eyedoc would be are there any further instructions I may have missed. The eye clinic just told me to keep an eye on it and if it got worse to come back, no time limit of further instructions when I left.

These are common symptoms. The eye is filled with a very thick jelly-like substance called the vitreous gel. It is usually firmly attached to the retina in the back of the eye. As people get older the vitreous may become more watery and it may partially detach from the retina. This can also happen with an injury. When that happens the vitreous may pull on the retina and cause the sensation of flashing lights. The floaters are either congealed vitreous or small droplets of hemorrhage. If this pulling causes the retina to tear fluid may get underneath causing a retina detachment. This is the serious problem the doc was concerned about since it can lead to permanent loss of vision.

Most of the time these symptoms are present without a tear in the retina. The extent of the symptoms does not correlate with damage. That means terrible flashes and floaters may be present with a normal retina, and some people with retinal tears or detachments may have minimal if any symptoms. Most of the time, though, there are symptoms if the retina tears, so if the symptoms change it makes sense to get your eyes checked again,
 

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These are common symptoms. The eye is filled with a very thick jelly-like substance called the vitreous gel. It is usually firmly attached to the retina in the back of the eye. As people get older the vitreous may become more watery and it may partially detach from the retina. This can also happen with an injury. When that happens the vitreous may pull on the retina and cause the sensation of flashing lights. The floaters are either congealed vitreous or small droplets of hemorrhage. If this pulling causes the retina to tear fluid may get underneath causing a retina detachment. This is the serious problem the doc was concerned about since it can lead to permanent loss of vision.

Most of the time these symptoms are present without a tear in the retina. The extent of the symptoms does not correlate with damage. That means terrible flashes and floaters may be present with a normal retina, and some people with retinal tears or detachments may have minimal if any symptoms. Most of the time, though, there are symptoms if the retina tears, so if the symptoms change it makes sense to get your eyes checked again,
Thanks that is pretty much exactly how my Doc explained it....I wasn't worried but at least now I know he was on track.....Thanks again.
 

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These are common symptoms. The eye is filled with a very thick jelly-like substance called the vitreous gel.

When did they stop calling it a humor and start calling it a gel???

Alex.
 

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Try having a taut bungee hit you in the eye. 3 surgeries later and it's useless, Legally blind in it. Only real bad thing (besides the obvious lack of good sight) is close up depth perception. That and whatever I do see with it is tilted left. When it gets aggravating I simply close the crappy eye for a bit.
 

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Both terms are used. I stopped calling it vitreous humor sometime last century.

When we dissected a cow’s eyeball in Junior High in the mid-late 80’s, we were taught that it was a humor and that stuck in my head as a quaint, kinda ancient way of describing it (like Hippocrates’ 4 bodily humors).

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When we dissected a cow’s eyeball in Junior High in the mid-late 80’s, we were taught that it was a humor and that stuck in my head as a quaint, kinda ancient way of describing it (like Hippocrates’ 4 bodily humors).

Alex.
We always called it yellow custard matter dripping from a dead dogs eye....I think that is the more technical term for it.
 
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