Floater extremely close to the retina after trauma, will it improve?

[intrr]

I experienced blunt trauma to the eye and the morning after had two very prominent, bright floater (not shadowy or dark like the existing ones) that are extremely crisp and don't move at all -- they are very close to the optic nerve and retina and look like strings of cells (rounded squares with dots in the center). They do not drop to the bottom like all other floaters.

I went to multiple eye doctors and they couldn't see the floaters or anything else unusual. However, as I said they must be extremely small and close to the retina / optic nerve so that's probably why they were invisible under the slit lamp.

Will they dissolve or move away from the retina, or are they possibly caught between the retina and vitreous and thus unable to escape?

[JohnHaganMD]

Among the many 'eye doctors' you have seen MUST have been a retina/vitreous surgeon. If not that is whom you need to see. If you have then the question you asked about floaters going away has been asked scores of times. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Most of the time they drop to the bottom of the eye out of the line of sight or the brain stops paying attention to them through a process called neuroadaptation.   There are additionals postings on floaters on my webpage under Journal Postings (35 of them now I think) Click on the blue name under my picture to go to that page.

[intrr]

Thanks, I've read most of them and gathered some interesting information. I sure do hope that they disintegrate or at least move further away from the retina, because especially the fact that they are exactly in the center of vision (and stay there!) is extremely distracting and would mean a significant drop in general quality of life.

[JohnHaganMD]

Maybe 7-8 years ago at a meeting in St. Louis I suddenly had a huge round floater in my right eye. I new immediately it was a Weiss Ring, the largest type of floater.  I was sure it would take a long time to get used to it. It took about 6 months. Its still there but I only see it when I go looking for it and moving my eye back and forth.  Surgical treatment for lasers to me is mostly nuts as the risks are extensive, and a whole number of lasers have been tried with little success. Mostly they are good for the surgeons that do these procedures which largely are un needed.