User:M.Wassmann

This is my Wikiversity homepage where I summarize some personal observations and experience serving as primary sources for research articles. My incentive to contribute to medical research stems from the failure of medical staff to properly explain my symptoms, as well as discrepancies I encountered between my own observations and the published medical research. My qualification to contribute to ophthalmological research especially is based on my longstanding occupation with photography, particularly its technical aspects, as well as my scientific education in civil engineering. This is because my argumentation wrt the eye problems mentioned here is based solely on the laws of physics, which apply to the human eye too. But also continuing problems since childhood days had me dive into more and more scientific medical literature over the years.

Background
When I was in my late teens, one day lying in the bathtub and staring at the wall I spotted a somewhat blurred grey spot in my field of vision which exhibited some strange behavior.

As it followed the movement of my eyeballs I first suspected a dust particle on my cornea, but it was not moved away when I closed my eyelids. Furthermore, from my knowledge of optics being that close to my eyeball the spot should not have been somewhat blurred but either completely invisible or that large, it should have been palpable when my eyelid closed over it.

I examined the spot more closely and trying to keep my line of sight fixed I had the impression, it very slowly followed the force of gravity. As the spot was not at the center of my field of vision I was not able to verify that, because it is very hard to keep your eyeballs fixed looking at a blank wall and concentrating on a lateral spot.

Years later, the grey spots had reappeared in combination with a rather severe acute incident of my chronic CSR which apparently was caused by my recently adopted habit of starting the day with a large, strong coffee to counter serious problems getting my blood circulation up. I had been told coffee was a risk factor when my CSR first was discovered, but I had to get up and things done. When I realized my CSR was getting worse I successfully substituted coffee with black tea.

On May 13th 2015, sitting on my balcony around noon in the bright sunlight and looking at a mostly white sheet of paper I suddenly realized the true nature of the grey spots. In the bright light they were rendered sharply and they were actually knot-like structures located at the end of one or more trails.

Yet I did not know this symptom was known as mouches volantes. This was only revealed to me in a medical examination at the end of May.

More to follow ...