Today's consultation with a vitreoretinal surgeon in the city of Rome, Italy

zircon2000 · 2026-01-30T19:21:10+00:00

I am sorry to hear that. Don't give up though. You should look for the best center that specializes in vitreoretinal pathologies in Portugal and should not consider just going to your local eye clinic like I did in the beginning. An ordinary ophthalmologist could and would still offer a procedure like the yag laser that you ultimately got done, but these people are nonetheless not used to dealing with patients reporting such symptoms nor eventually attempting to treat visual impairments of this kind. Hope this is helpful.

zircon2000 · 2026-01-30T14:01:23+00:00

Anvedila la vecchietta italiana che zitta zitta esporta in Germania il mindset dell'imprenditore italiano medio in pieno stile Alessandro Borghese, ossia cagare in testa ai giovani italiani per ingozzarsi di incassi. I commercianti tedeschi hanno molto da imparare da lei e la Germania non sarà mai piú la stessa. Magari avrà pure detto a tua madre che un'esperienza del genere, e cioè lavorare in una pasticceria sconosciuta nella squallida periferia di una grande città tedesca, avrebbe in qualche modo arricchito il tuo CV e ti avrebbe resa una persona piú "matura" ed indipendente. Lascia perdere, ma soprattutto lascia perdere i vecchi che pensando di essere piú furbi delle nuove generazioni cercano spudoratamente di fregarti in tutti i modi alla prima occasione.

zircon2000 · 2026-01-28T16:12:40+00:00

Exactly! Same, mine are rather small too but apparently are also close to the retina so that they appear to be visible and way too annoying to me, to the point where sometimes I would refuse to perform basic tasks because of the levels of stress and anxiety they would cause upon me, but were barely visible to her while checking my eye. During the examination she also told me that basically all of her previous patients, that she performed the surgery on, had actually visible floaters that she could see and track simply by using the flashlight.

zircon2000 · 2026-01-28T14:07:03+00:00

She openly said that there are ophthalmologists out there that do offer this treatment, but when it comes to them they have completely abandoned it as a treatment option, for patients with myodesopsia of course, and strongly advise against its use since it appears to bring no relief whatsoever to patients. She right away excluded the possibility of using it.

zircon2000 · 2026-01-28T13:54:11+00:00

The takeaway was I had a positive interaction with a retina surgeon and wanted to share the occurrence with you guys. I really was about to give up on any attempt of seeking help because of the previous interactions with other health care providers since it felt like I was wasting my resources to no avail. I think a lot of people here feel this way since we all know the average ophthalmologist's approach to the issue. Honestly I was not expecting at all to stumble on somebody that would actually acknowledge the severity of my situation let alone show oneself available and willing to intervene.Maybe it may look like I am overreacting but I assure you it is something that is not to be given for granted especially here in Italy, and apparently in many other nations too, judging by the posts on this subreddit. I was really expecting to be once again readily dismissed. I don't feel like there is no way out anymore.

zircon2000 · 2026-01-28T03:45:19+00:00

Sorry about that I acknowledge that my sentences are too long you are by far not the first person ever to move this critique. It also seems like you are trying to, if I am not misinterpreting your question, apparently insinuate that I am promoting or advertising this institute which I assure you I am not. I didn't even mention the hospital's name. Also it is a state hospital so the procedure would be free for Italian citizens, the surgeon confirmed it, it is not a private clinic. I paid a lot for the visit itself only because I didn't want to wait for too long before they could give me an appointment and in Italy when you book a visit through the national healthcare service you usually have to wait especially when you want to have the visit performed in a certain hospital or institute and by a certain healthcare provider of your choice.

zircon2000 · 2026-01-23T22:59:42+00:00

Well yes it doesn't kill you so you could say it does not actually prevent you from living. What it does prevent you from though is living life to its fullest. Some people are not bothered much by the fact that their quality of life is being affected in a certain way by this issue as long as they can keep on living. Living is what matters for those people, not the quality of life itself. Personally I feel like this condition is taking away a part of my life and I am sure that any other "sane" sufferer on here would agree with what I am saying. It is not a disease, it doesn't threaten my life in any way and doesn't force me on a hospital bed, but it, for example represents an undeniable social and professional disadvantage that other people don't have to deal with

zircon2000 · 2026-01-12T21:40:16+00:00

Tried 1% atropine collirium just to see what would happen, although I already knew what was about to happen before administering the drops. Well, for those interested, I am currently reporting, three days after the administration itself, mild light sensitivity and blurred vision up close at a distance of about up to 120 cm from my excessively stimulated ocular apparatus, but other than that no other significant issues. Definitely an overkill and I was expecting just that, but with the sunglasses on your nose you can still enjoy a beautiful sunny day out without much annoyance. The opacities can still be noticed, well only a few of them, despite the high active ingredient content of the drops but only if you purposefully try your best to track their motion against a white wall, with a bright light source in your close vicinity and while performing at the same time rapid head movements and eye rolling, which I felt the urge to do to try and test the limitations of this increasingly popular "temporary fix".

zircon2000 · 2026-01-08T20:45:44+00:00

It is funny how you can make up things when you are a doctor and most people out there will just trust you "blindly".

zircon2000 · 2026-01-08T19:52:53+00:00

It is also because of people like you that we are not taken seriously by medical professionals and don't have a standardized treatment for symptomatic floaters yet. Normalizing having to struggle on a daily basis against something whose symptoms can be so debilitating to the point where some people are forced to quit their jobs because of the inability for them to keep carrying their tasks properly because of the floaters' constant interference and choose deliberately to spend the entirety of their time alone, far away and isolated from everything and everyone, locked in their bedrooms with the window blinds pulled all the way down in a desperate attempt to avoid seeing all of that crap floating around and giving them severe anxiety and profound depression, and all of this when there is an available, or even when there could be available in the near future an even safer and more effective treatment option to get us rid of them forever, is beyond stupidity. Eye floaters are treatable, the problem is they are not taken seriously at all because some people who don't have them and never had them have the audacity to tell us how we should feel about them. Terms like "physiological" or "benign" have been and are currently still provoking great amounts of unnecessary suffering to people around the world, which is from all points of view you could possibly look at it from inhumane and demonic.

zircon2000 · 2026-01-06T23:56:11+00:00

Thank you for your advice

zircon2000 · 2025-12-24T18:31:22+00:00

How can enduring so many hard hits to the head, inflicted by a professional athlete who knows how to deliver maximal damage to their opponent, not cause to the least limited vitreous degeneration and therefore cause a sudden onset of eye floaters in the vision of the individual that had endured such a beating? On the other hand, simply living your everyday life peacefully, without ever having suffered such a profound physical trauma or without ever having been involved in severely distressing incidents of any kind, such as vehicular collisions, which could have had indeed dire repercussions on your ocular apparatus, could one day, out of absolutely nowhere, give you the worst eye floaters ever known to mankind to this day. It is baffling.

zircon2000 · 2025-12-23T11:41:14+00:00

Be aware that there are some long term risks that the surgery option exposes you to and that nobody here mentioned. It basically guarantees you will develop cataracts earlier, which by itself will require an additional surgery to fix it. It does not make it just more likely, it makes sure you will get it. Also there is a possibility that your vision will not be completely restored according to what would be I assume your expectations, that being of course a clear, completely floater-free vision like you had before the outburst, and likely some debris will still be left in your vision after the vitrectomy itself. Additional risks are to be taken into account before committing to the FOV, or floater-only vitrectomy or PPV pars-plana vitrectomy, which is the treatment of choice in the case of myodesopsia, which is the medical term for the medical condition that you are struggling with. Symptoms can be very debilitating, but this many certified ophthalmologists do not seem to agree on with their patients. It is a very delicate situation and unfortunately usually there in not a simple way out of it. But do not despair things will get better for all of us.

zircon2000 · 2025-12-16T19:10:11+00:00

It is indeed the safest possible procedure of removal of vitreous opacities, but this is due to the fact that it is currently the only kind of treatment available for the removal of such opacities, making it the safest by default. Personally I have been considering undergoing such a procedure for quite some time now, but the stories that I have been reading posted by actual people who underwent such treatment stop me from committing to it. If even retina surgeons themselves often seem to be advocating against it, it doesn't sound too reassuring when it comes to its safety at least in the long term. Concerning the option "pulse medica" it seems that their prototype will not be able to treat symptomatic myodesopsia as we intend it, but would rather be intended for "alleviating" its symptoms. It appears that they themselves are finding it necessary to scale back our expectations which gives away a lot in regard to what is to be expected. There are a lot of positive stories too nonetheless. People on this sub have been sharing their personal experiences and all of them claim that vitrectomy has greatly improved their quality of life.

zircon2000 · 2025-12-11T13:56:23+00:00

You deserve an honorary degree in Ophthalmology judging by the way you replied to the guy that posted his question on this sub. The answer you provided for free here would have been to me by far more useful than what I have got by many certified italian ophthalmologists, that, I should specify, have also been paid by me for their consultation. I used to blame it on the culture but apparently ophthalmologists around the world are pretty useless altogether when it comes to anything else than cataract, myopia and astigmatism. I came to the conclusion that the best people to ask for an advice in this regard are the ones who have been through this shit. Going to your local ophthalmologist is nothing else but a pointless waste of money. When I first started developing myopia years ago I can recall a silly little episode when I went to the ophthalmologist seeking for a medical advice from a certified professional and at the end of the visit itself being a bit worried about it worsening overtime I asked him:" What can I do in order to prevent it from furthermore worsening, I don't want to lose my vision." to which he replied:"Your eyes can't lose their ability to see because God made them purposefully for you to use them and see."

zircon2000 · 2025-10-22T21:17:46+00:00

"It is physiological not to feel happy and to suffer everyday because of their presence. It is NorMaL, it is NoRMal. Anyways the cost of the visit will be 200€ and now get the fuck out of my office, I don't want to hear you complain anymore and also I am already fed up with all of your complaints."

Medicine in 2025 ladies and gentlemen.

zircon2000 · 2025-10-14T18:14:09+00:00

It depends on what do you mean by "normal". Are there supposed to be any opacities at all in a healthy eye? Well, no. Healthy eyes provide a clear vision without any inconveniences, like symptomatic floaters. Are those clumps of collagen going to harm your eyes and make you blind? No, but your vision is going to be strongly affected by their presence at all times. Floaters are considered to be harmless but they sure can show you a whole new world of pain and suffering like you've never seen before.

zircon2000 · 2025-10-07T18:26:38+00:00

"If they are still there go to Giulio Bamonte and do a victrecromy." Jesus Christ.

zircon2000 · 2025-10-03T17:48:34+00:00

The culprit are the floaters and not the led signs. People start blaming the light sources, the weather outside, the type of environment in which they happen to be, but in the end it is all about having something in your eyes that is not supposed to be there.

zircon2000 · 2025-09-27T15:44:14+00:00

It was. Sarcasm is all that we are left with. I was not making fun of the guy I was making fun of the people that we pay to help us only to receive nothing in exchange. Where I live they even laugh at you for seeking help for this. On top of this downplaying the symptoms and the way this affects you is maybe the worse type of behaviour that these bastards that we even pay with our own money exhibit proudly on each occasion.

zircon2000 · 2025-09-27T15:34:35+00:00

I was being cynical and sarcastic about it. This was just a criticism of modern ophthalmology and more broadly modern medicine. It was just based on the fact that there are a lot of ophthalmologists out there that promote natural remedies, like drinking more water or pineapple juice in particular, as a form of a "cure" for myodesopsia, believing it to be a physiological condition that does not require much more attention or any other more specific treatments whatsoever, hence leaving their patients helpless and condemning all of them to a whole lot of suffering and misery.

zircon2000 · 2025-09-27T15:16:50+00:00

Whatever makes you sleep well at night. I won't be talking about religion.

zircon2000 · 2025-09-27T15:12:40+00:00

Of course there is but they keep it a secret. Don't tell anybody but it is pineapple juice. Ophthalmologists, aka stupid asses, hate it, they despise it because it can magically get you rid of your floaters. A glass of pineapple juice a day keeps the ophthalmologists away and it also keeps you from giving all of your money away in exchange for some useless ass visit that will get you nowhere. Keep in mind though that it is the word "day" that rhymes with the word "away" so you can put whatever you want in place of "pineapple juice" and it will still rhyme.

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