I can't see it if I lok in the mirror or anything and it really gets on my nerves after a while... I've had it since I was a kid and I can't figure it out.... What can it be??
2007-07-17 05:05:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Optical
GO TO THE OPTOMOLOGIST. Not an optometrist, an optomologist. That's an eye doctor, the other one is just a guy that does prescriptions and tests vision. It scares me when people say things like they have a black spot only they can see.
When I was 19 I noticed a black spot whenever I had to close one eye to do my makeup on the other. I let it go hoping it would go away and it seemed to get worse. Went to the Doc and she sent me straight to the emergency because it looked like I had a tumor pressing on my optical nerve that was causing my vision to go. Come to find out I have pseudo-tumor cerebri newly named intracranial hypertension, and I was going blind. It's very rare.
From then on proceeded the worst and most expensive 4 years of my life. Long story short, I'm OK now, I have to always go to the optometrist forever to monitor it, I've had surgery on each of my eyes, and I lost 70% of my vision permantely in my left eye and it can never come back because I let it go untreated so long.
And there are SO MANY eye diseases that are really terrible that start out with spots. I learned about hundreds of them and had every eye test known to man done to me. NEVER let anything funny go untreated that you notice about your eyes. They are more precious than you realize. Good luck and seriously, please go.
2007-07-17 10:13:16 · answer #1 · answered by Ivana Cracker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-07-26 00:28:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called a floater. It is debris like dead cells sloughed off that floats in the viscous humor of your eyeball. Learn to ignore it because there is no realistic way of getting rid of it.
2007-07-17 05:14:11 · answer #3 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to see a doctor. It could be glaucoma or even macular degeneration. I would have an eye doctor check it out. I sometimes get floaters, but they are not black.
2007-07-17 05:13:28 · answer #4 · answered by kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a blind spot. my brother has one.
2007-07-17 05:12:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋