Eye floaters

All my life I have had annoying floaters in my eyes. I read that hyaluronic acid can help, so upon further investigation I searched "floaters" on iherb. Some other things came up such as pycogenol, vinpocetine, bilberry, and lutein esters. Does CS or anyone else know more about supplements to help floaters? Which supplement(s) would be best for getting rid of them?

My vision has gone from 5.5 - 3.5 by taking care of my eyes, LLLT/cloud gazing and also taking supplements. I'm shooting for 20/20 vision in the next 3 more years and I may get there.

These are the ones I take that probably have the greatest benefit for eyes

http://www.iherb.com/Life-Extension-Bilberry-Extract-100-mg-100-Capsules/3939?at=0

http://www.iherb.com/Source-Naturals-Zeaxanthin-with-Lutein-10-mg-60-Capsules/4547?at=0

http://www.iherb.com/Now-Foods-Grape-Seed-250-mg-90-Vcaps/7240?at=0

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/SWU230/ItemDetail?n

or krill oil for Astaxanthin

200 mg of Hyaluronic acid or bone broth each day

Also, limit glutamate consumption. It's found in everything .... more info = http://www.msgtruth.org/eyesight.htm

While this helps with vision, I'm sure this would also help with your floaters.

Thanks. What do you mean LLLT? Surely you don't shine lasers into your eyes? And what is cloud gazing? You just stare at clouds and it helps your vision?

lol, yeah, what I mean by using LLLT is shining a laser without it's focusing lens into your eye. This is extremely dangerous though and only to be used by people that know what they are doing otherwise you'll win the Darwin award of the year if you know what I mean. LED's would be the safe bet for most people.

Here's a good link for more info http://www.thorlaser.com/media/media-archives/light-therapy.htm#

Sun gazing or cloud gazing whatever it's called is just turning your back to the sun and looking straight up into the clouds without contacts, glasses, etc.. You hold your gaze for as long as possible without blinking. At first, it will be very hard and your reflexes will almost force you to blink but try not to. But again, don't look at the sun. Turn your back to the sun. There use to be some good info online about some people getting results in reducing or even eliminating their prescription for contacts.

j87x - This combination may help you: 1,000 milligrams of choline, 500 milligrams of inositol, and 200 milligrams of methionine daily. Try it for at least 5 months.

CS - will do, I'll report back in 5 months.

to be honest the only chance to get rid of these bastards is vitrectomy (FOV).
But this is very dangerous...
You can try to zap them with yag lasers but that´s not very effective an dangerous too.

I don´t think taht supplemts will resolve floaters. I really read and tried a lot but nothing worked. But I would be interested why immortal recommands this combination with inosistol

tao81 - I don't usually recommend what is in the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR), but this is one of the exceptions. That's my source.

thx immortal for your answer!

Just an interesting side note...

When I was on finasteride, I suffered from a few side effects. One of them is perhaps the least mentioned: eye floaters.

I'd get them like crazy.

But when I got off finasteride, the eye floaters gradually went away.

LA-Night wrote:Just an interesting side note...

When I was on finasteride, I suffered from a few side effects. One of them is perhaps the least mentioned: eye floaters.

I'd get them like crazy.

But when I got off finasteride, the eye floaters gradually went away.

I got my sexual side effects in mid 1999 and then I stopped taking finasteride. I noticed things in my eyes in late 1999 and then in Feb 2000 I got floaters in both eyes. One is attached to the lens capsule of my rigth eye.

yeah floaters can be very nasty if you have a lot of them or very big ones.
Unfortunately nothing besides FOV can be done right now.
I don´t think fin causes floaters- not every shit that happens is due to fin.

tao81 wrote:yeah floaters can be very nasty if you have a lot of them or very big ones.
Unfortunately nothing besides FOV can be done right now.
I don´t think fin causes floaters- not every shit that happens is due to fin.

Go do your research. Eye floaters have been reported by different finasteride users.

It's not a common side effect but it has happened to me & others, too.

LA - I know some fin users claim fin for the rising of their floaters. But that does not proof anything. I´m, pretty sure it´s not the fin just chance. people tend to say every bad thing what happens to them is a side from their medic.

tao81 wrote:LA - I know some fin users claim fin for the rising of their floaters. But that does not proof anything. I´m, pretty sure it´s not the fin just chance. people tend to say every bad thing what happens to them is a side from their medic.

Hey tao81 - So you think finasteride users get eye floaters because of "chance"?

Look, you're right, some people exaggerate their sides. And, yes, it's tough to empirically prove a causal relationship between eye floaters and fin. BUT...

In my case, I had no previous history of eye floaters. Once I started finasteride, I got eye floaters. Once I quit finasteride, the eye floaters went away.

Certainly doesn't seem like chance to me.