It’s been a month since this dust bunny cobweb floater showed up in my right eye. After my first visit to the ophthalmologist (a month ago) I was told to take it easy (for a month) and come back (in a month).
In four days the flashing was gone, so I thought in another week the floater would be gone. And now it’s been a month and the floater remains.
Still, I’ve found a way to cope with it. I focus on something, anything, and it fades. It springs back when I move my eye, unfortunately. But for a moment it’s gone.
It’s just like my tinnitus: when that starts up I listen very hard, focus, and it starts to fade. It goes away for a few days. The floaters only go away for seconds … but then they are back, skating along, especially when I’m trying to read a physical document like an old letter.
The ophthalmologist said something interesting: the floater is a actual physical clump of cells from the back of my eye, not just some crossed signal in my optic nerve. That is comforting.