Dear Doctors: I was recently diagnosed with "floaters" in my right eye. I am told it just happens and is not my diabetes or high blood pressure. The floaters are constant and only get better with sunglasses. They make eye-involved activities difficult, and I get somewhat carsick. Any suggestions?
Dear Reader: Eye floaters are common enough that most people reading this already understand what you are asking about. They are the specks, blobs and weblike shapes that drift through the field of vision.
Floaters are made of minute bits of cellular debris and are suspended in the vitreous. That's the translucent gel-like substance that fills the rear part of the eye. As light enters the front of the eye, those bits of debris block its path. That means you're not seeing the floaters themselves -- you are seeing the shadows they cast on the retina.
