Any procedure to help with floaters after cataract surgery?

About two months after my cataract surgery, I developed large floaters
in both eyes. One eye doctor that examined my eyes for a glasses
prescription said it was vitreous separation. The floaters are
causing some difficulty in reading text as well as other activities.
My surgeon said that I would just have to put up with them, but the
eye doctor said that the floaters will move to the bottom part of my
eye in a few weeks due to gravity. I'm wondering if jogging or
jumping on a trampoline to increase gravity would accelerate the
floaters moving to the bottom part of my eyes without increasing the
risk of retinal detachment? Is there any (low risk) technique to
reduce or eliminate the floaters (e.g., laser)?

 

Vitrectomy, but I am not sure it's worth it, unless your flaters are
disabling and absolutely unbearable.

 

What's the downside besides expense and time? If floaters seriously
interfere with normal activities I would think that vitrectomy would be
a viable option.

 

I think not. Vitrectomy is a majorly invasive procedure and should be
reserved for the worst, horrible, intractable and unbearable floaters.
If they are all of that, fine. Otherwise, get used to them. consider
them friends. Companions. They will be there as long as you are...

w.stacy, o.d.

 

Are there any supplements, such as L-Lysine, that might help the eye
to repair the jelly like material? Instead of replacing the jelly-
like material, couldn't the surgeon just fill the empty space with
saline? Wouldn't that make the floater disappear? What if I just
drink more water? Could that have any effect? If the vitreous
material separates from the retina, is it possible that the crack or
gap in the vitreous material would close and reseal itself? What
about the trampoline idea? I don't quite understand how gravity would
make a crack move down to the bottom of the eye.

 

I have a theory that some floaters may be gas [nitrogen]
bubbles. The thermal solubility gradient across the eyeball
is a mechanism that could provide a continuous supply.

These floaters should be reduced by reducing the gradient:
wearing [tighter] glasses or goggles, reduced airspeeds
around the eye, moister and warmer air at the eye.


-- Robert