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Hi folks, Thought I would write in to re-assure Jo and anyone else who was concerned about eye problems after reading a memo from JO? from Brasil. The message dated 27/9/96 subject:Selegiline side effects had the following quote: > >recently(about 2 months ago) that my eyes started to have fine lines flying around the > >space laterally. People call "fly" in the eyes.: This a harmless and natural condition which I have experienced myself. The "lines" are like fine hairs, sometimes singly sometimes clumped together. They are only seen properly if you de-focus the eye (sort of glaze your eyes) and look for them. They "float" around if you try and focus on them so you can only generally see them by "Sort of looking sideways at them and trying to catch them by surprise". They become more obvious against a bright white background ie white tiled bathroom or wall on a bright day. They disappear if you focus on something in the distance. Beware, if you become concerned by them and "keep checking up on them" because you then tend to see them more often. Forget about them for a while and you will tend not to see them. When I read the mention of them I realised that I had not consciously seen them for weeks. I then checked and, sure enough there they were. When I first noticed these I wondered if it might be a PD or PD drug effect. However my routine visit to the optician confirmed there was no problem and here is a direct quote from Black's medical dictionary: "Behind the lens and filling up the greater part of the interior of the eyeball is a soft, transparent, jelly-like mass known as the vitreous humour. The lens and vitreous humour are both of an albuminoid nature in chemical composition. The vitreous humour usually contains small specks and filaments which cast shadows upon the retina when the eye looks at a bright cloud or whitened wall. They appear as floating blots or strings, and often cause alarm when noticed for the first time, but are of no importance and occur in almost every eye." Just thought to re-assure on this point. Julia comes in, "Are you OK?" "Sure! Why?" "You've got this glazed look in your eyes" "Oh, that! ... Just looking for blobs." Julia, suddenly looking worried, "Looking for WHAT?" "Read the letter, darling, read the letter." Ernie Peters ([log in to unmask])