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[Quixote1818]

I have had them all my life but don't notice them much. Recently have had more show up that are darker and hard to ignore. Going to try this out.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Very informative, but

Why not do a study on Bromelain itself? Wouldn't that make more sense??

[yonder]

2. Interesting to me as one eye has the PVD condition he mentioned.

[Quixote1818]

4. I just had a PVD two days ago. That is why I got looking into this

Saw a giant new floater and flashes on the side of my eye. I went to the eye doctor immediately because you're supposed to in the event it starts to tear the retina. He said mine was looking like a clean break. The new floaters are really large because they are like seeing the edges of the detached vitreous and also where it was attached to the optic nerve which when detached appears as a large round floater but should dissolve over the next few months that goodness.

Did you have the flashes in your eye?

[yonder]

7. Yes and that was the scary thing. It started so sudden.

This was a few years ago. Like you, I went to the eye doc the next day. I also have an underlying retinal thing called a macular pucker which someday might get worse but the PVD isn't really related or as serious.

The doc said the flashes would go away after a few days but the floaters (more, bigger and darker including the ring thing at the center of vision) probably wouldn't. For me they're kind of like an insect swarm in the upper field of view. He also said the other eye would likely get it someday as well. Oh boy.

I've pretty much gotten used to them but here's a funny story: A couple of years ago I was trying to take care of a yellow jacket nest underneath the deck. There I was, on my hands and knees with a can of spray when all of the sudden they start coming after me. My wife said it was a funny sight. Me trying to clumsily get away, knocking over a table, before I realized it was the floaters in that eye that were "chasing me away".

So Q1818, we get older and things start to happen. Best of luck with your situation, hope it gets better. And thanks for the info about pineapples. I expect I'll be starting that regimen soon. And be careful around yellow jackets. Real or not.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I never had them until after my cataract surgery in 2008. I also

went back about a year later and had the laser procedure to 'zap' the floaters. However, I still have them frequently. Mine are dark spots and at times I bat at them, thinking it's a gnat bugging me!

I can't eat raw pineapple due to radiation treatment to my mouth and throat, so I might try the supplement and see what happens.

[TygrBright]

5. Be more convincing with a control group.

A similar sized group in each branch of the study, people with the same experience and incidence of floaters, who receive no pineapple.

How much resolution did they experience over the same 90-day period?

curiously,
Bright

[Hoyt]

6. Bookmarking. I have PVDs, but can't watch tonight.

[Staph]

8. I've had floaters my entire life, too.

As a kid, I just assumed that everyone had them, just as I assumed that everyone could see things up close but that stuff in the distance was fuzzy. It was a shock to get my first pair of glasses at seven and to realize that I could see individual leaves on trees. I told my mother and she cried.

I guess I'll have to try some pineapple. Fresh ones are hard to come by in the wilds of West Virginia, but I'll give the canned stuff a try.

[2naSalit]

9. Interesting.

I recently discovered one in my weaker eye and was wondering what to do about it. I think Ill add pineapple to my routine diet with fruits.

[Locrian]

10. thanks - will have to try that

*just* went to the doc last week because of it. She said no worries - but would love to make them disappear!

[Merlot]

11. I wonder if pineapple juice works

I drink it after hiking sometimes, love it! Would be much easier to drink a small can of juice each day instead of finding and cutting a pineapple.

[Quixote1818]

13. As long as it has bromelain is should work. Sounds like the center of the pineapple

has the highest concentration of bromelain.

[NurseJackie]

12. Can I just sprinkle Adolf's Meat Tenderizer on everything (instead of salt)?