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Adrenal Fatigue and Eye Floaters

High cortisol is the connection between stress, adrenal fatigue and eye floaters?

As shown by the survey results at the bottom of the page, floaters are a fairly common symptom.

Like many adrenal fatigue symptoms, this is actually a symptom of chronic stress. It is not really related to your adrenal glands.

However, the same chronic stress that is over-working your adrenal glands is causing many other problems, including the collagen breakdown that is causing your eye floaters.

First, chronic stress leads to chronically elevated cortisol. It really doesn't matter what the source of stress is.

Second, chronically high cortisol leads to collagen reduction ^{1, 2}:

Cortisol raises the free amino acids in the serum. It does this by inhibiting collagen formation¹

Finally, reduced collagen formation and the breakdown of collagen results in eye floaters^3,4.

The most common cause of floaters is shrinkage of the vitreous humour: this gel-like substance consists of 99% water and 1% solid elements. The solid portion consists of a network of collagen³

the vitreous humour in the middle of your eyeball can become softer, and strands of a protein called collagen may become visible within it. The collagen strands may appear to swirl as your eyes move.⁴

That explains the series of events that results in the common adrenal fatigue symptom of eye floaters. Again, it is really a chronic stress symptom.

Survey Results about Floaters

I have been posting surveys on the web page Adrenal Fatigue Symptoms. It is a great way to see how common certain symptoms are.

Eye Floaters have been included in a few surveys. Below are the results:

Date of Survey	Do you have Eye Floaters?	# of People Responding
June 15, 2013	69.8% Yes	54
Sept 21, 2013	64.4% Yes	90

If you would like to see survey results for other symptoms, see the article Survey of Symptoms

Forum Posts Related to Eye Floaters

Eye floaters are often a topic is discussion on Adrenal Fatigue Forums. Below are a couple of forums posts of people discussing their symptoms and asking about eye floaters.

Fuzzy Vision and Eye floaters

I also have severe eye floaters

My Own Experience with Eye Floaters

It may help you to review my experience.

I have always had some eye floaters. I can remember laying on my back in Grade 6 and looking up at a clear sky. When I moved my eyes, I would see the swirl of floaters. This was long before crashing with adrenal fatigue (age 36).

In 2004, I took a home saliva test. My morning cortisol was:
21.2 ng/ml (normal range: 3 - 8).

Is was during this period of extremely high cortisol that I experienced a large increase in the number of eye floaters.

Will Eye Floaters Go Away?

You may be wondering if your eye floaters will go away as you recover from adrenal fatigue.

I hardly notice them now. I believe you can get used to having them, so they don't bother you are much. They may also settle out somewhat.

When they first appear, it is a very stressful symptom to have. Just try not to worry too much about them and work on reducing your cortisol levels .... since that is the root cause of your eye floaters.

Eye Floaters in my Family

Adrenal Fatigue is hereditary. So is chronic stress. Several people in my family have mentioned that have eye floaters.

My mother had floaters for years. One of my sisters has them. One of my aunts had them. One of my cousins has them.

There may well be more. Those are just the ones I know about.

If you are interesting the hereditary aspects of adrenal fatigue, you may find the following articles interesting.

Summary

Just like every other adrenal fatigue symptom, to reduce eye floaters, you must reduce chronic stress and cortisol.

Meditation, Earthing, Nutritional Balancing all have a part to play. You will need to get your nervous system out of a state of constant fight or flight.

This does not happen overnight. There is a lot to learn. I truly hope this site will provide you with information that will help you recover from adrenal fatigue.

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