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Eye floaters
Now I'm also getting eye floaters...... black dots mostly and some lines some squiggly..... some of them look like little cells. What in the world!? Where did they come from and why don't they go away?? I notice a few more everyday it seems. How can you tell if its not a vision problem? Like with the retina?
Another eye related thing, known as a scurf ring or rim. In the case of dark eyed people, a white ring around the iris. At one time its composition was analyzed. Guess what? The composition is about the same as the envelope of mycoplasmas. Cholesterol and other sterols. I'd guess that those who did the analysis had no idea they may have been analyzing something live, though I can't be sure they are mycos. Couldn't verify that without an electron microscope. Back to floaters, mine have always seemed to be somewhat anchored, in the same place most all the time. Now from time to time I have reason to use some high powered telescopes and I then see others that I don't usually see, smaller ones that I think are on the surface rather than within, the normal bacteria that comes into contact with the surface of the eye, they move about some. I had fun in microbiology class trying to tell which were my floaters and which were the bacteria we were supposed to be looking at through a relatively low powered microscope.
Depending on your age, there are changes in the collagen framework-type structure in the eye that begin to degrade in ~ middle age. That can cause some distortions of vision and odd things, so there may be some of that going on, but it's not the same as the little squigglers swimming through your eyes. There's nothing I know of to be done about them, except to get the underlying infections treated, and get regular eye exams from an ophthalmologist (an MD who specializes in eyes, not somebody who only does refractions and grinds lenses). I don't know what the ophthalmologist can do about the Lyme squigglers, but if there are possible secondary effects, the doc can perhaps deal with those. Just another little benefit of having Lyme, eh?
Just figured dead..... cuse a lot of what exits the body is waste or things like sweat is another way for the body to detoxify....... I just said "I would like to think of that way" so thinking positive I guess.
And what I meant was how many do you see in your vision like on a daily basis?
And what I meant was how many do you see in your vision like on a daily basis?
I've been seeing the floaters since I was perhaps 12. I've read all the other things it's might be, detached bits of eye veins, blood, etc. I've twice happened to be looking at them when they changed shape. Once when I was young I was watching a squiggly and, pop, it turned into a fried egg shape. I asked the old guy at the garage I hung around, course he had no idea. No long ago I got to watch the last one in my right eye change from squiggly to fried egg, then disappear! That was a thrill! Mycoplasmas, and it has been established that the Lyme spirochete can change to a mycoplasmal form, can survive outside their vertebrate hosts for up to 48hrs. Leave a straw that you've drank through sit for a day then take a look down it. Don't know what'd make you think they're dead because they're coming out of you.
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