Dear Sir,

I can empathize with some of your after surgery symptoms, though my “slew of thousands of floaters” happened after I had surgery for a torn retina.

Here’s my experience:
I was hit hard in the eye with a ball while playing softball. For a few days, I thought I just had a nasty black eye till I saw a flood of small spec floaters a few days later. Quickly, I went to ophthalmologist and they diagnosed a torn retina and I had surgery (called cryosurgery) to repair my retina. Just after surgery, I saw MANY more floaters that looked like someone emptied a pepper shaker into my field of vision (like you)! It seemed to worsen to thousands of floaters and I inquired with doctor and many times in the first weeks after surgery. He described the majority of these to be red blood cells that happened during my retina surgery AND these floaters would dissipate in “a couple weeks”. Well, I visited him at two months and they were STILL there. In my mind, they were about the same as they had been, but, maybe they were down to hundreds instead of thousands. He, again, said, “give it a couple weeks or so.”

At that point, I was really frustrated and thought the condition would never improve. FINALLY, , another 4-6 weeks later, I looked into the sky and it was, mostly, clear of floaters. So, I assume, the majority of those thousands of floaters were the surgery-related red blood cells that, eventually, go away.

So, I pray that everything was done ok with your surgery and that your vision improves with your doctor’s treatment, healing and time.