I had very few floaters prior to the surgery. An optometrist had warned me that I was susceptible to them because of my extreme myopia, but they weren't bad. Since the surgery they've been a big problem. One day I was sitting on the sofa when I would have sworn that a ferret crossed the room. It was a floater! More than once I've been startled by something, only to find that that was a floater, too. I often see a smudge in my right eye, like a smudge on your glasses, except I'm not wearing glasses. All of this has been since the surgery. The Natural Ophthalmics products have really helped. No more ferrets! The floaters aren't completely gone, but I have less.