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Lovely!

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Thank you! And for adding the first official comment ;)

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I have a history with floaters. They have visited me at different times in my life, but my first experience was right after puberty, when I began to have Migraines. It soon got to the point that I actually dreaded their onset, but they kept on coming, and at the most inconvenient times. The floaters would appear. I would try blinking, closing my eyes, shake ing head, anything to make them go away, but to no avail. The floaters were the inevitable harbingers of my next Migraine. Nausea, headache, annoyance and eventual resignation to the inevitable loss of a few hours of life, but generally no vomiting, just feeling that I wanted to die. I had these lovely events fairly regularly between 16 an 18. If my memory serves me well, I also had a couple in my first year at University, but after that they largely disappeared from my life, but not so the floaters. I still get floaters to this day, but they only make a very brief appearance, enough to get me attention, and then casually depart. It has taken my psyche about 45 years to finally accept that when the floaters arrive I am NOT going to get a Migraine. It has taken me that long because, for the first 25 of those years I did get the occasional Migraine after the floaters, but it was not always

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Interesting how the awareness of these “floats” in and out, and the distress they can cause until you make your peace with them. It took me years as well not to be frustrated with mine! I actually use this story in my head to redirect the disappointment I feel looking at the sky when marred by floaters. The headaches sound like an added burden, too. Thanks for sharing :)

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