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To: Stan who wrote (38642)	1/31/2024 11:36:38 PM
From: jazzlover2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39322

I hope it works for you. My floaters never "go away" they're always around, had them as long as I can remember, but slowly fall out of vision if I maintain a steady gaze. They drift as I move my eyes around, like shaking a snow globe if you've ever seen one. Not severe but annoying especially on bright days while driving, walking in winter forests, or when looking at the white screen on the computer or on a page in a book, say, but I've gotten used to them. Like walking with a limp, you don't like it but you get used to it. I'm told it's due to my myopia, around -9 diopters if I remember correctly. I had lasik correction 15 or more years ago but the floaters remain. A myopic eye will always be a myopic eye even after corrective procedures. If a floater hangs around my central vision I move it by flicking my eyes a bit, like Scott Ritter sometimes does if you notice on his videos. I suspect he has floaters. Some may think he has "shifty eyes" or a nervous tic condition. Fwiw.

To: Stan who wrote (38642)	2/1/2024 7:00:17 AM
From: ig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39322

I went to see The Floater Doctor last year. He zapped my "Weiss Rings" and made a pretty good improvement, but I still have lots of problems caused by the posterior vitreous detachment, for which the only solution is removal of the vitreous gel and replacing it with saline or silicon. As for bromelain, I get what the Solgar provides, plus I have a standalone bromelain supp (3000gdu) that I have taken only sporadically. Everything I've read suggests that it won't work, so I'm not very motivated to take it. I asked the floater doc about it and he said the theory is based on a single study that looks like it was funded by the pineapple lobby. I've looked at the study and wasn't impressed -- although here's a new study I've just found, published about the same time the doctor pronounced judgment on the first study (Nov 2022), so maybe he hadn't read this one at the time: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov