So a little over a week ago I started seeing these seeing these thing sometimes.  Its like when you look through sun light and you see little particles floating through the air, well I see that a couple times a day without the sun.  I knew this wasn't suppose to be happening so I contacted my pediatrician who told me I needed to come in and get it looked at.  When I did he diagnosed with something called floaters which is I guess when little pieces of debris get in the eye and float around but aren't harmfull just annoying when you see them. However, because this particular symptom can also be a symptom of retinal detachment and I have a connective tissue disorder, which leaves me at high risk for retinal detachment I was told I had to go see my pediatric opthamologist. When we called her, we got another dr. who apologized saying that she was out of the clinic for the next week but he was monitioring her calls and did not like the sound of mine.  We quickly went over my history including the connective tissue disorder and how that was cause for concern how I am severley near sighted how that was cause for concern also and how I had within the last year and half been diagnosed with strabismus or a weakening of the eye muscle due to my connective tissue disorder which was also cause for concern. Because of all this he told me we could not wait to see my normal doctor and offered me an appointment in his schedule this week, this morning at 8:15 actually ( amazing as it usually takes over 2 months to get in to see any doctor at their clinic). So I am off today to see him, and find out if my retinas are truly detaching or if it is just floaters like my pediatrician thought. The last time I was in for an eye exam, they looked closely at my retinas and said that they looked good but need to keep a close eye on them because one looked like it may start detaching.  Wish me luck today :) I will let you know how it goes!

Brianna 

• Retinal
• Detachment
• retina
• Floaters