How many spirochetes do you see in your vision?

What?! I have floaters.. God I hope I don't see spirochetes in my vision. I do have vision problems. What color are they, blackish like floaters it what? I do not want to see them it's bad enough to know we have me, I am all set with seeing them.

I've had the same sight issues for many years. When I first noticed them I made an eye appointment. The eye doc told me I had Scheerer's Phenomenon, copy and paste link below. I also see them with any light colored background, but the squiggles are dark in color as well as light. I can tell they are moving in fluid from the ripples I see, like a pebble dropping in water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

Lymepickle,
Do you have any proof of the floaters being spirochetes? If so, please share it with us.

Please all, have a look at this link. It explains what floaters are, and how they are formed. You are not seeing spirochetes in your vision. A LOT of healthy people have floaters.

http://www.kellogg.umich.edu/patientcare/conditions/floaters.html

MarieLS

A lot of the drs are plain lazy. Over here it's almost a miracle if you get to see a dr for a total of 15mins. You haven't even finished asking your questions, and they already take their pen and book to write you the receipt and collect the money.
I make it a habit to make a list with all of my questions, and I go through that list. I don't get my money out as long as my list isn't finished, even if the receipt is already in front of me.

I see exactly the same thing as you in bright light. When I turn on my light in the morning I see them, or outside. Some are round balls, some squiggles. It's like an outline.i want them gone too.
=]chloe

I have "floaters" as well and didn't have them until Lyme. Lines, squiggles,circles etc. My LLMD never seems to be concerned when I mention them and claims she's hears patience say it all the time. I do not believe they are spirochetes just possible damaged collagen.

I have floaters that look like little bulls eye targets. Anyone else?

I see what you describe - especially when I am driving - I see those spirochette shapes vertically. The floaters are WAAAAY TOO MANY - IT'S ANNOYING AS HECK!! They are floating around as I am writing this. Do you find that your vision gets tired /fatigued easily and gets blurry? Lately, I can't even be on the computer long. It's ridiculous and just makes my anxiety worse. I started A-Bart lastweek - I wonder if that has anything to do with all this visual activity.

I understand people think the spirochetes are 'too small' to be seen by the human eye.  Then why are these squiggles in exact proportion to the dimensions of a spirochete!  Also antibiotics has helped dissolve them away.  If there is just one photon of light that hits one cone in the eyes vision, we can say that is one kind of 'pixel' in the human vision.  It could be just the size of 1 beam of light!  So if that area is blocked by a spirochete the light would still pass through the spirochete and get to the fovea, but it will distort the light a tiny bit.  I think this is what is happening.  If you take your finger and move it closer to your eye it appears bigger than if you are holding it far away, so what ever is inside the eye can be picked up and be even more magnified. 

Before these things were swimming around in my vision even!  I'm pretty sure they are spirochetes.  If not then they are bundles of collagen caused from the damage of spirochetes.  But either way I'm going to keep taking antibiotics until they are all gone.  The eyes are actually one of the 'safe places' for lyme disease to get to. It is difficult to treat these infections but I would like to believe the amoxicillin is helping me. 

It's really quite simple, Lymepickle - the human eye simply cannot see bacteria without the aid of a microscope - even if they reside in the eye itself.

It is however, something interesting that we (I saw those squiggles too) see this specific shape, when we are infected with a bacteria that looks similar.

Spirochetes are usually much longer than they are wide, and often their width is below the resolving power of the light microscope. A Borrelia Burghdorferi spirochete may have a length of 10-30µm but a width of only 0.2-0.3µm. Therefore most spirochetes cannot be viewed using conventional light microscopy. Dark-field microscopy must be used to view spirochetes. Dark field microscopy utilizes a special condenser which directs light towards an object at an angle, rather than from the bottom. As a result, particles or cells are seen as light objects against a dark background.
The Borrelia Burghdorferi spirochete is as long, as a fine human hair is thick.



Floaters can have the form of dots, circles, lines, cobwebs, thread-like strands, or squiggly lines. They move as your eyes move and seem to dart away when you try to look at them directly. They do not follow your eye movements precisely, and usually drift when your eyes stop moving.

Floaters are small clumps of cells or tissue that form in the vitreous humor, the clear jelly-like substance that fills the inside cavity of the eye. Although they appear to be in front of the eye, they are actually floating in the vitreous gel and are seen as shadows cast on the retina (the light-sensing inner layer of the eye).

Marie - that's good information, but I am still puzzled. Three years ago, I was told I have thinning of the retinas ( was seeing a lot of peripheral flashes, almost like rolling flames, but without the heat - still do practically EVERYDAY), but lately, it's been tons and tons and tons of floaters and especially worse when I am on the computer or driving. I also see those "spirochettes" that LymePickle speaks about. So is what you're saying, all due to the health/state of the retinas? By the way, my vision is REALLLLLLLY BAD ( coke bottles for glasses type situation - even the thinnest lenses look hefty.).