A "Faint Line" in Vision

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CGeorge - 15 Jul 2006 00:33 GMT

I have had a faint line near the center of my field of right vision since
2001. It's not long and I see it _only when_ I move my right eye to the
left. I don't think it's getting longer. And it cannot be a floater because
it doesn't move. When I see it, it looks like this:

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* <--the asterisk denotes the center of my right vision field.

Anyway, a retina specialist examined my right retina yesterday and found no
retinal problem. So, what could it be?

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CGeorge - 15 Jul 2006 00:35 GMT

>I have had a faint line near the center of my field of right vision since
>2001. It's not long and I see it _only when_ I move my right eye to the
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> Anyway, a retina specialist examined my right retina yesterday and found
> no retinal problem. So, what could it be?

Oops, the diagram is wrong. It should be something like:

I
* <--the asterisk denotes the center of my right vision field.

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Mike Tyner - 15 Jul 2006 01:21 GMT

>> Anyway, a retina specialist examined my right retina yesterday and found
>> no retinal problem. So, what could it be?

Most of the time it's just a floater, condensed vitreous fibrils or a strand
of detached vitreous face turned sideways. They can't always be seen by the
examiner, and you're describing one that is small and pretty close to the
retina.

Floaters don't always "move." But if it sits totally still, it disappears
because your retina quickly adapts and loses perception of it. When you move
your eye, the vitreous jiggles just enough to make the floater detectable.

-MT

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The Real Bev - 31 Jul 2006 00:16 GMT

>>> Anyway, a retina specialist examined my right retina yesterday and found
>>> no retinal problem. So, what could it be?
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> because your retina quickly adapts and loses perception of it. When you move
> your eye, the vitreous jiggles just enough to make the floater detectable.

Would that it were so. When the big one in my right (better AND
dominant) eye chooses to sit right smack dab in the center, causing what
I'm reading to blur, it drives me nuts. As long as it doesn't obscure
anything it's fine, but if I had to live with it in the center I'd have
to try to do something about it.

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