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Raining clumps of circle floaters ?

Hi, I am a 29 year old floaters sufferer. One day out of nowhere i started to see these groups of tiny almost perfect circles rain down my vision. Sometimes i have seen them up close, asif i have zoomed into one of them and it is like they have a bullseye appearance. Does anyone else experience these...

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Hello everyone, My Name is Ali Male 28 years old, I hope you are all doing well, I just have a couple of questions and hope you can give me an answer. These symptoms appeared since 7 months when I was on Doxycycline for 2 months only (I stopped it immediately) and got a Migraine with aura (never had...

Hi everyone, need help with a few issues

Hi, I am a 29 year old floaters sufferer. Does anyone here have meibomian gland dysfunction or blepharitis ? I have been advised to use an eyebag / warm compress to unblock my glands but using an eyebag scares me. This is because I am worried the heat from the eyebag could melt or degenerate the vitreous...

Checking back after 5 years

Hi everyone,
Last time when I was seeking help here was 2016 when I had some horrible symptoms of dry eye syndrome. My daily life and work was severely impacted. What completely solved my problem was restasis and church life. For those of you who are not religious, at least you should try Restasis....

Higher eye pressure (please help.)

Hello! I’m sorry if this doesn’t belong to dry eyes but I’m just really worried and would like to see what you think. My eye pressure has always been really low, one time it was 6 and 7 and last time it was measured it was 11 and 12. But today it was 19 and 20, which I know is in the...

Lymecycline does anyone take?

Does anyone take Lymecycline I think it does a similar job to doxy. What dosage do you take?...

Stress and eyes...

Hi everyone. I have not posted for a while because I have been doing well, that is until about three weeks ago, when my eyes started acting up again. Every time I have a flareup, I feel like it hits me harder. Every time, I am afraid that if is the beginning of something even worse. I have also noticed...

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