Seeing a lot of floaties in your eyes a sign for something serious?

Question

I have a lot of floaties(those grayish/invisible things that float around in your eyes) and i know people have them removed through surgery, but i was reading stuff where people were talking about how too much could be a medical condition

Answer 1

Yes, there could be a medical condition.  Please see your optometrist.  

Answer 2

People on the whole do not have floaters removed by surgery, unless they are incredibly severe.  The operation, vitrectomy, has the risk of creating floaters and has retinal detachment and macular oedema as possible side effects, so it is rarely used for "normal-level" floaters.

Old floaters (present more than a couple of months), are of very limited significance.

Fresh floaters, with or without flashes of light, need to be examined.

98% of fresh floaters are of no clinical significance, but in 2% of cases they are an early sign of retinal detachment, and it is in order to pick up those that a precautionary examination of all new floaters is advised, even though forty-nine people out of fifty will be told nothing needs to be done.