Every time I get botox injections, i notice my floaters become worse. Now I am struggling to see out of my right eye, the floater takes up most of my vision. It got really bad after my last botox injection which was about 40 units into my forehead. Since this may affect my job performance, I am not going to get botox anymore, and see if the floater gets better over time.
I read somewhere that floaters can be related to liver in which there are too many proteins. I am juicing beets and vegies to see if it helps clean out my liver and perhaps help the floaters to dissapate.

(answer from John)

This is as much a mystery to us as it is to you. I personally can assure you that floaters are normal after lens transplants and gradually disappear but we have never heard of seeing numbers and letters.

I have had this operation after suffering three detached retinas, being short sighted followed by glaucoma and the onset of cataracts I had the transplants. My sight is near perfect now apart from medication for the glaucoma, no need to wear glasses and no discomfort, I just wish I had had the lens transplants many years ago.

I hope that this is only a temporary problem that will resolve itself naturally. The thought does occur that there may be identification and data on each lens that should have been removed before the insertion and so is causing this strange problem. Just a wild guess but I have little doubt that the surgeon will resolve the issue without any further expense.

One colleague had lens transplants some three years ago and only last week had to undergo laser treatment on one eye where the vision had got slightly cloudy.

Without being too technical, we understand that this may occur due to a problem in the posterior capsule behind the lens. He was told that he would likely suffer floaters for the next few weeks but it was nothing to worry about. Whether this has any bearing on your problem I do not know but it seems that floaters are not necessarily down to the retina.

In your case with floaters occurring in both eyes after botox treatment there does seem to be a correlation. Hopefully after a few months when the botox has worn off the floaters will disappear. In which case the connection seems highly likely. So no botox, no floaters!

Thank you for your interesting question.

Twice where it caused my eye lids to droop for about 3 weeks (temporary ptsosis).

All 3 times there was an increase in floaters in BOTH eyes.

I have had my retina checked several times in the past 2 years. My retina is fine. But I now have floaters that are webs and blobs in my whole field of vision.

My opthamologist said that Botox could not cause this. But what does he know about botox? Anyone hear of this?

I have been very depressed about these floaters. It effects driving and golfing.