Eye Floaters are, for many people around the world, a stressful, psychologically severe and debilitating condition.
Eye floaters have been largely ignored by traditional Ophthalmology, and no serious treatment is currently available. Few Ophthalmologists offer YAG LASER treatment, which has proven to be rather ineffective. Other few Physicians offer VITRECTOMY for floaters ("FOV", aka Floaters Only Vitrectomy) which is a procedure that involves some risk.
We are starting this petition because we want to push a major Pharmaceutical company to start a serious research around this disease to come up with a safe treatment (pharmaceutical vitreolysis?).
If you agree on this cause, please sign the petition and leave a comment in English to describe your exact condition and if you are interested in a treatment.
Once we reach 500 signatures, we will contact the CEO of a leading SWISS pharmaceutical company to push for the beginning of a research that may bring us a safe treatment for this nasty disease.
Thank you for your cooperation and best regards
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Updates
April 4, 2017
I honestly cannot believe we hit one thousand signatures for this because it feels like just yesterday I was staring at the screen and hoping for even ten people to actually read my plea. Reading through the stories you all leave is wild because it makes me realize how many people are sitting in dark rooms just trying to avoid the glare while doctors keep telling us nothing can be done. I am genuinely floored by this momentum and it makes me feel like maybe we can actually force someone in the industry to listen for once.
Reached 1,000 supporters
April 1, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
February 5, 2016
February 5, 2016
My head is spinning looking at these signatures because honestly I just expected a few people to get where I am coming from and now we are almost at one hundred. If you know anyone else struggling with this frustration just throw the link their way because honestly we need more eyes on this before the big companies even bother to blink.
626 Comments
Have been suffering from eye floaters for over 2 years. It's really destructive for my life. It makes me distracted from my work. Many things that I enjoyed before (hiking, road trip, walking in the beach) are not that joyful to me any more.
Its embarrassing that floater sufferers still have no solution to what most eye doctors consider only a 'nuisance'. It affects my mental health daily. Every day I wake up hoping to not see the floaters but they are still there. Something needs to be done by way of research.
I can only hope this gets taken seriously. Young people's FLOATERS are not the same as OLDER PATIENTS. Ours will not sink to the bottom or change, and many are having new floaters appears monthly. People with perfectly healthy eyes are suffering.
Quality of life suffers badly with floaters. I believe people treat it like a mental illness. If they can't see it then they think it's not there. Only people with mental illness or eye floaters will understand this. It's 2016 something safer should be found out by now.
Please help us, we all suffer depression everyday, locked into a floater prison only we experience, Pleas medical profession help us with a cure and invest time into this horrid situation without risk of surgery that may blind us.
Both my eyes have floaters, summer light is barely bearable, my concentration is really impaired, readinfg and driving is not the same it used to be. My opthalmologist tells me my brain will get accustomed, it is obviously wrong, he does not know what he is talking about and the floaters worsen and never disappear as oftenly told. I started having them at 35 and more than ten years passed with much degradation.
Good luck
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Eye Floaters are, for many people around the world, a stressful, psychologically severe and debilitating condition.
Eye floaters have been largely ignored by traditional Ophthalmology, and no serious treatment is currently available. Few Ophthalmologists offer YAG LASER treatment, which has proven to be rather ineffective. Other few Physicians offer VITRECTOMY for floaters ("FOV", aka Floaters Only Vitrectomy) which is a procedure that involves some risk.
We are starting this petition because we want to push a major Pharmaceutical company to start a serious research around this disease to come up with a safe treatment (pharmaceutical vitreolysis?).
If you agree on this cause, please sign the petition and leave a comment in English to describe your exact condition and if you are interested in a treatment.
Once we reach 500 signatures, we will contact the CEO of a leading SWISS pharmaceutical company to push for the beginning of a research that may bring us a safe treatment for this nasty disease.
Thank you for your cooperation and best regards
PLEASE SHARE THiS LINK WITH YOUR FRIENDS http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/eye-floaters-ph...
Updates
April 4, 2017
I honestly cannot believe we hit one thousand signatures for this because it feels like just yesterday I was staring at the screen and hoping for even ten people to actually read my plea. Reading through the stories you all leave is wild because it makes me realize how many people are sitting in dark rooms just trying to avoid the glare while doctors keep telling us nothing can be done. I am genuinely floored by this momentum and it makes me feel like maybe we can actually force someone in the industry to listen for once.
Reached 1,000 supporters
April 1, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
February 5, 2016
February 5, 2016
My head is spinning looking at these signatures because honestly I just expected a few people to get where I am coming from and now we are almost at one hundred. If you know anyone else struggling with this frustration just throw the link their way because honestly we need more eyes on this before the big companies even bother to blink.
626 Comments
I suffer from eye floaters which prevent me from concentrating on work. I can't help but focus on it, and the more I try to focus on it, the more my eyes tire, creating a vicious cycle. Now it has made me lose my love for life, and I don't even dare to appear in the sun.
Have been suffering from eye floaters for over 2 years. It's really destructive for my life. It makes me distracted from my work. Many things that I enjoyed before (hiking, road trip, walking in the beach) are not that joyful to me any more.
Its embarrassing that floater sufferers still have no solution to what most eye doctors consider only a 'nuisance'. It affects my mental health daily. Every day I wake up hoping to not see the floaters but they are still there. Something needs to be done by way of research.
I can only hope this gets taken seriously. Young people's FLOATERS are not the same as OLDER PATIENTS. Ours will not sink to the bottom or change, and many are having new floaters appears monthly. People with perfectly healthy eyes are suffering.
Quality of life suffers badly with floaters. I believe people treat it like a mental illness. If they can't see it then they think it's not there. Only people with mental illness or eye floaters will understand this. It's 2016 something safer should be found out by now.
Please help us, we all suffer depression everyday, locked into a floater prison only we experience, Pleas medical profession help us with a cure and invest time into this horrid situation without risk of surgery that may blind us.
Both my eyes have floaters, summer light is barely bearable, my concentration is really impaired, readinfg and driving is not the same it used to be. My opthalmologist tells me my brain will get accustomed, it is obviously wrong, he does not know what he is talking about and the floaters worsen and never disappear as oftenly told. I started having them at 35 and more than ten years passed with much degradation.
Good luck
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I suffer from eye floaters which prevent me from concentrating on work. I can't help but focus on it, and the more I try to focus on it, the more my eyes tire, creating a vicious cycle. Now it has made me lose my love for life, and I don't even dare to appear in the sun.