We are in the 21st century right now and I must say that a lot of diseases studied in medicine are far behind with proper treatments currently. Are you tired of going into a doctor's office and have him or her tell you that some conditions are benign and nothing can be done about them? Well, this is one of our chances to tell everyone that they are irritating and can suppress quality of life. Many things have been getting ignored for almost forever now and we can't keep on letting them happen until the year of 2100. Vitreous floaters can be symptomatic eye floaters and flashes of light that cast across our vision, preventing us from getting perfect vision. Some people get them due to age, natural causes, or some type of optical injury. We have the chance to tell health experts that if correctly funded and given awareness, this thing could become a thing of the past.

Surgeries have always carried risks and fear mongering among the medical community. Some say eye floaters are perfectly normal, but they become abnormal when the vitreous within the eye degenerates, causing us to have them 24/7. They distract our brain mentally, ability to see perfectly and beautifully, and can annoy us as they are comparable to "eye version" of tinnitus. Vitrectomy is the surgical repair or removal of the optical vitreous to eliminate symptomatic eye floaters. Patients can choose vitrectomy because they're young and there is no way to get rid of those squiggly lines and dots they see every day. Recently, scientists have developed a more modern procedure to treat these things and it's called YAG Laser. It is still ineffective and causes fear mongering because of the amount of radiation our eyes will be exposed to just like CAT-Scans. There is also little evidence to show that YAG Laser can replace vitrectomy and that floaters are permanently eliminated after the treatment. With the amount of money from congress that we poured into cancer, strokes, heart attacks, and physical-rehabilitative diseases, why not try to get rid of eye floaters too? After all, tinnitus is getting the attention it deserves now, so eye floaters should join in the chat as well. 

If we proceed to a website called https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/floatertalk/ it is a forum dedicated to patients who have symptomatic vitreous opacity. If there was a way to cure eye floaters and flashes of light without the need for vitreal surgery or YAG laser, the forum would not exist -- that would've been a positive thing. Reading through everyone's stories, we can get sympathy out of them. An ophthalmologist in California is also leading a special project of his own to grant more awareness and funding for this symptom or disease. https://www.vdmresearch.org/  -- feel free to support it if you like. 

The whole point of this petition is to advocate that more funding and research can be done on vitreous opacity. Our goal is to cure of young and old people's eye floaters and flashes of light. We need to put in more effort to prevent this symptom from occurring 24/7. Big pharma can do whatever it can to keep getting rich every day, but fail to emphasize our health. I encourage people to please give this petition as many signatures as it can get so we can finally see some change to the medical community despite the COVID-19 crisis that is going on right now. We are all hoping for a better future and world.