bluelakelady

hi lori,
welcome aboard!
sounds like your ciatic nerve. try standing on a stair with your heels hanging over the edge. let your weight fall toward your heels and see if you feel it in your butt. one of the symptoms of ciatica is heel pain. does it sort of feel like you stepped on a rock and the heel is bruised? another good stretch is sit on a chair, cross your right leg over your left, place your left hand across your knees and turn from the hips to your right. you ought to feel a stretch on the right high in your fanny near your lumbar spine and in your right hip region.
floaters in the eye are no big deal. i have had them most of my life. they usually occur as we age. so does changing your prescription! i am 49. i play with them. i zip my eye one direction and watch the floaters follow.
there is a thread titled "the list" by copper. find it and print it out. this may bring you a bit of peace. knowledge chases fear away.
peace my newbie sister,
bluelakelady
ps. it's always a good policy to sit back down if you feel like you may fall. it's a long way to the ground and for some reason it hurts when i fall. remember when you were a tiny one and falling was no big deal. the ground was closer then.
also ask your doc about chronic myofascial pain. the symptoms are similar to fms. i have fms and cmp in my eyes. after having cataract surgery fms and cmp raced there. they are speeding up a process in my eyes that ought to take years. the cataracts grew at such a rate it freaked out my eye surgeon. poor guy, he thougth he had somehow hurt my eyes. once i explained what i felt was happening in my eyes he did a bit of research and agreed with my findings. i will have to have laser surgery at some point on both my eyes. the tissue that holds my new lenses in is hardening. the laser will blast a hole in the fiber and let the light back thru. fms is one trippy roller coaster ride. so is cmp. bizarre, interesting, facinating.