So I woke up last week and thought I had a piece of fuzz in my left eye...but after a few minutes of gently rubbing to the corner and no movement which I thought was odd...I thought maybe it was stuck to my eye somehow so off to the bathroom to flush it out. I did think it was odd that the shape i was seeing...(this piece of fuzz was just off the left side of my focal so I could see it very easily in my peripheral)...did not change at all after the light rubbing. The shape was like a half moon just like this kinda 
but squiggly. Flushing did nothing 
. So now I'm thinking crap...I cut my cornea somehow in my sleep...great. I've cut the cornea of my eye before a couple times in my life...once from the super thin end of a branch whipping back and hitting my eye just perfectly following my father in law in the woods. Thanks for that John lol. The other was handling a huge camo decal sheeting I was applying to an atv trailer I bought for hunting...(the factory finish was bright aluminum)...these sheets were like 4' x 4' and as I was positioning one it got away from me and the corner hit my eye just perfectly. That one scared the hell out of me as the second it happened my vision in that eye went blurry...like looking underwater or thru a thick coke bottle. I thought for sure I just messed the vision in that eye up for life. The first one I didnt even know happened until later on the day when my eye starting itching horribly but nothing was in it. I was in Canada at the time and after seeing an eye doctor and him telling me I cut my cornea I remembered that branch whipping back walking thru the woods. The second one although my vision was instantly screwed up I could see the outline of the cut which was also shaped like a cresent moon but was a perfectly smooth line. This cut cornea...if that's what it was...was different than both of the others in that 1) it didnt itch and 2) the outline was very squiggly not smooth like a cut. Hmm...I didn't know what the heck but this other thing I noticed really had me puzzled. When I would blink or move my eyes really fast up and down or side to side I would see what looked like a flash of super bright light around the edges of my eyeball itself 
What the heck that was freaked me out a little in that it was constant and super bright...like lightning bright. Did that have anything to do with my cut cornea ?...none of this was making any sense so off to the eye dr I go.
Apparently after a bunch of tests with the different machines scanning and taking pictures in and thru my eyes...and the Dr asking me a few questions as well...one of them being do you see any flashes of bright white light
he goes you've got PVD. He said as you get older some peoples eyes but specifically the fluid in them dries up a bit...when it does it pulls away from being attached to the back of your eyes and as it does that it can pull away small pieces of tissue along with it. The line I was seeing in my eye was actually a shawdow being cast from ambient light hitting a piece of this tissue. That line or shadow they call floaters. He said the danger is as the fluid dries up and pulls away it can detach your retina . He said I was ok for the moment but any change and come back right away as soon as I saw any change. Two days later I woke up and OMG...I've got what looked like 2 or 3 additional "floaters" in my left eye...that was the original one...and about a dozen of them in my right...back I go...repeat all the scans...no retina detachment yet...and he says some of the floaters over time will drift away from the center area of your vision to the side...and you brain will adjust to the others and they won't bother you so much. Pffft...I'm batting at fly's all fricken day now that arent even there...it's a involuntary natural reaction...and seeing really fast bugs racing everywhere...this is ridiculous.
Anybody else experience this ?...is he being honest and it eventually gets better ?...have you been able to still shoot ok ? I'm just now pursuing PRS. I've never even shot a rifle with a scope on it my entire life as I've always been a bowhunter. So I'm not sure what to expect pursuing this with a bunch of crap/shadows in my vision. None of these floaters are exactly in my focal area of vision but a few of them are dang close =/
but squiggly. Flushing did nothing . So now I'm thinking crap...I cut my cornea somehow in my sleep...great. I've cut the cornea of my eye before a couple times in my life...once from the super thin end of a branch whipping back and hitting my eye just perfectly following my father in law in the woods. Thanks for that John lol. The other was handling a huge camo decal sheeting I was applying to an atv trailer I bought for hunting...(the factory finish was bright aluminum)...these sheets were like 4' x 4' and as I was positioning one it got away from me and the corner hit my eye just perfectly. That one scared the hell out of me as the second it happened my vision in that eye went blurry...like looking underwater or thru a thick coke bottle. I thought for sure I just messed the vision in that eye up for life. The first one I didnt even know happened until later on the day when my eye starting itching horribly but nothing was in it. I was in Canada at the time and after seeing an eye doctor and him telling me I cut my cornea I remembered that branch whipping back walking thru the woods. The second one although my vision was instantly screwed up I could see the outline of the cut which was also shaped like a cresent moon but was a perfectly smooth line. This cut cornea...if that's what it was...was different than both of the others in that 1) it didnt itch and 2) the outline was very squiggly not smooth like a cut. Hmm...I didn't know what the heck but this other thing I noticed really had me puzzled. When I would blink or move my eyes really fast up and down or side to side I would see what looked like a flash of super bright light around the edges of my eyeball itself What the heck that was freaked me out a little in that it was constant and super bright...like lightning bright. Did that have anything to do with my cut cornea ?...none of this was making any sense so off to the eye dr I go.Apparently after a bunch of tests with the different machines scanning and taking pictures in and thru my eyes...and the Dr asking me a few questions as well...one of them being do you see any flashes of bright white light
he goes you've got PVD. He said as you get older some peoples eyes but specifically the fluid in them dries up a bit...when it does it pulls away from being attached to the back of your eyes and as it does that it can pull away small pieces of tissue along with it. The line I was seeing in my eye was actually a shawdow being cast from ambient light hitting a piece of this tissue. That line or shadow they call floaters. He said the danger is as the fluid dries up and pulls away it can detach your retina . He said I was ok for the moment but any change and come back right away as soon as I saw any change. Two days later I woke up and OMG...I've got what looked like 2 or 3 additional "floaters" in my left eye...that was the original one...and about a dozen of them in my right...back I go...repeat all the scans...no retina detachment yet...and he says some of the floaters over time will drift away from the center area of your vision to the side...and you brain will adjust to the others and they won't bother you so much. Pffft...I'm batting at fly's all fricken day now that arent even there...it's a involuntary natural reaction...and seeing really fast bugs racing everywhere...this is ridiculous.Anybody else experience this ?...is he being honest and it eventually gets better ?...have you been able to still shoot ok ? I'm just now pursuing PRS. I've never even shot a rifle with a scope on it my entire life as I've always been a bowhunter. So I'm not sure what to expect pursuing this with a bunch of crap/shadows in my vision. None of these floaters are exactly in my focal area of vision but a few of them are dang close =/
it was late morning I was chatting with a couple of friends and damn....the light sure has gotten poor in here ,the hoplophobes are right guns are dangerous in so many ways 
Regardless, I’ve had several docs look and not be concerned. It is indeed part of getting older. They can freeze the material temporarily which helps some people. The problem I was told is that it is only temporary and normal when it wears off the problem is much worse. 
Not sure on being able to replace the vitreous fluid. I think I recall something about that as well but they didn’t recommend that either unless it was absolutely necessary.
