What twig said. Right now. If you miss a retinal detachment, permanent consequences happen within a day.
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it is just a large Floater for now. But more permanent in location and size. No pain, at all, no vision impairment otherwise
Research which 24 hour eye specialist you want to go to if things get worse. Make sure you know what retinal tears and retinal detachments look like. (They don’t feel like anything, but they creat visual disturbances you can identify.) Tears in the vitreous humor can lead to uneven tension on the retina, which can lead to retinal tears. As mentioned by others, damage to the retina can permanently damage your vision in an extremely short timeframe. And they can usually be treated to preserve essentially all of your vision if they are addressed immediately.
Fwiw, when my vitreous humor started to detach from the back of the eyeball (a common form of tearing, especially if you are nearsighted and getting on in years) I panicked and went to the emergency room. They took my symptoms seriously and sent me to the ophthalmology clinic, which has 24/7 coverage. My symptoms were similar to those of two of my friends who had recently had retinal detachment. I ended up with a lot of “watchful waiting”, and probably a lot more visits to the ophthalmologist than i really needed, and ultimately i had no treatment in one eye, and a very small patch of the retina “tacked down” (with a laser) in the other.
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I had a posterior vitreous detachment a while back. Still bums me out a bit that my vision is permanently a bit messed up in that eye.
At the time I was concerned I might be experiencing the initial symptoms of a detached retina. That is something that requires immediate treatment. If there’s any chance of that, I’d do something now. I got in my car and drove to my eye doctor without an appointment. He wasn’t in the office then, so his staff sent me to another eye doc in the area that could see me that day.
Me, too, but i usually say, “the jelly in my eye detached from the back of my eyeball” 
I guess that’s more letters, but it feels more descriptive.
my symptoms are nothing more than a constant peripheral floater. Larger than a regular floater, consistant in shape.
No pain, no vision issues..
Is this what those who had the vitreous tear experienced?
There’s no pain associated with anything within the eyeball. Not glaucoma, not retinal tears or detachments, not tears in the vitreous humor.
(There can be pain after some types of eye surgery, but it’s from the nerves on the outside of the eye.)
Mine started with a flash of light, shaped like a crescent. It was there for a moment and then vanished. Then i had additional random flashes of light, especially when i moved my head quickly. In retrospect, that was the retina reacting to pressure (tugging) rather than to light.
I did end up with an enormous floater that was pretty annoying when everything settled down and was done. That’s gotten less visible over time. The ophthalmologist can still see it, but i think the rough edges of that piece of jelly have worn smoother.
I think you can wait to see a doctor, but you should research emergency eye services now, so you know where to go if you need that.
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the floater is already diminishing - i have to look for it. no flashes of light
I also had some weird light sensations, a somewhat vertical shimmering line. At first I thought it might be an ocular migraine.
End result of my detachment is a permanent big floater.
i get small floaters all the time. but if something big or weird happened, I would not f around with my eyes or wait for them to be painful. i’d prefer to be seen ASAP for that if it worried me
no retinal damage.
Hopefully the “webs” will migrate out of the field of vision or my brain will adjust
Now if i see a light flash, then i might have a problem
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One of the reasons that Isaac Newton was so prolific in his optical research!!
i see
Here’s a new one: I’ve had this pain in my left thigh going on 3 weeks. It’s on the outside, and hurts most when lying in bed or getting in and out of bed or the car. I can walk fine and often don’t notice it unless I’m moving in a specific way. My chiropractor said bursitis but my doctor said it’s too low to be bursitis.
Anyone care to have a guess while I’m waiting on a PT referral?
Could it be tightness in your IT band?
If not, where is the pain in relation to your IT band?
IT band and/or sciatic stuff. stretch - a lot. then do some basic core exercises
I thought sciatic pain was more in the back. Don’t know IT band. Off to google.
Sciatic pain is from compressing a nerve in the back, but can manifest anywhere downstream from the compression. That it hurts when you lie down suggests it could be a pinched nerve.
That sounds like an it band. Not fun, nor is the physio.
but sciatic is back of the leg pain,
i believe their pain is outer leg
IT band is a new one for me, too