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Slit In Eye With Blood, Light, Wispy, Pieces Dart Across Vision. Will These Go Away ?

I’m 21 years old and 8 months ago I got grazed in my right eye by a clump of dirt someone threw. When I went to the doctor the morning after the incident he looked into my eye with a slit lamp and said there was blood there, but that it was too dense for him to see my retina and to come back a week later to give the blood time to disperse a little. When I went back everything was fine. The blood remained, but has gotten lighter and more mobile (I guess) over the past 8 months, although I still notice light, wispy, pieces dart across my vision when looking up at a clear blue sky. I guess what I am asking is that these remnants of blood that I still see in my eye…are they ever going to fully dissolve without surgical intervention? I read somewhere that blood takes longer to dissolve in ‘younger’ eyes with a fully formed vitreous (I’m only 21). Is it normal for pieces of blood from a traumatic vitreous hemorrhage to still be present in the eye after so many months in cases like mine? Should I expect to live with this for life, or will it eventually dissolve? I wasn’t given much information on Vitreous Hemorrhages except for what I’ve read on the internet.
Fri, 2 Aug 2013
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If your vitreous hemorhage is resolving and you don't have any retinal detachment or vascular occlusion or other problem and you vision is alright, I believe it's going to resolve but continue frequent follow ups to your ophthalmologists.
Vit.C intake does help.
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Slit In Eye With Blood, Light, Wispy, Pieces Dart Across Vision. Will These Go Away ?

If your vitreous hemorhage is resolving and you don t have any retinal detachment or vascular occlusion or other problem and you vision is alright, I believe it s going to resolve but continue frequent follow ups to your ophthalmologists. Vit.C intake does help.