Floaters can be so common, yet not all floaters are the same. Here is another example.
An 84 year old nice lady came for an urgent visit as she started noticing a greenish gray floater in the right eye for 1 week. She did not notice any flashes. Her right eye saw 20/400 with no improvement with pinhole (this usually means that vision cannot be improved with glasses). Her left eye was able to see 20/30.
It’s impressive that she had not had cataract surgery yet, and only had a moderate amount of cataract. One look at her macula in the right eye revealed why she saw this gray ‘floater’. There is a blob of blood there as shown in images below.
The other eye only had mild drusens in the macula, indicating early age-related macular degeneration.
So this may be a case of very asymmetrical presentation of AMD with the right eye affected by wet AMD with acute bleeding and vision loss, and left eye only affected by mild dry AMD.
I referred her to a retinal specialist for treatment.
See my other articles on “floaters” and related eye phenomena.
https://bostoneyeblink.com/2019/09/28/floaters-in-a-young-woman/
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