On floaters......
What pushed me into seeing a ophthalmologist for the first time wasn't being diabetic but I had what I thought were a lot of floaters and every once in awhile I'd have a bright vertical thin line flash for a second on the side of my eye.
She explained that floaters were pieces of protein and I can't recall what she said about the vertical line flashes but she told me to purchase the below pictured over the counter eye drops ($12.00 for .33 fl.oz.) and use them twice a day for awhile and see if that helped.......after a couple of months the flashes disappeared and even though I still get the occasional floater they are far and few between, I still use the drops every other day for maintenance.
What pushed me into seeing a ophthalmologist for the first time wasn't being diabetic but I had what I thought were a lot of floaters and every once in awhile I'd have a bright vertical thin line flash for a second on the side of my eye.
She explained that floaters were pieces of protein and I can't recall what she said about the vertical line flashes but she told me to purchase the below pictured over the counter eye drops ($12.00 for .33 fl.oz.) and use them twice a day for awhile and see if that helped.......after a couple of months the flashes disappeared and even though I still get the occasional floater they are far and few between, I still use the drops every other day for maintenance.