It is scary. My father started having problems with retina detachment
when he was about 85. He's now 92. One has been repaired twice. He
can still see but not well. I think he'd have been better had he had
better (and mostly) sooner care.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/16/2013 4:03 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> Wow! So scary! I hope your doctors are the best around. My retina is
> detaching slowly and may or may not cause problems. I went to a retina
> specialist as soon as I was diagnosed and just have to be monitored for
> now. It's amazing what they can see in the eye now. Best wishes and good
> luck!!
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> My latest news: My right eye (with the reattached retina) is getting
>> better all the time, still a little "milky" but sees OK.
>>
>> BUT, I've had another problem, this time with my left eye. It lost sharp
>> vision in the center. Last week I practically freaked out when I
>> returned to work and discovered I couldn't read the computer screen,
>> because the right eye hadn't wasn't sharp enough yet, and the left eye
>> decided to go Lomo on me.
>>
>> It turns out to be a rare complication from my cataract surgery two
>> months ago. They did an OCT* scan of my retina, and it has a little
>> cone-shaped bump dead-center. It's like somebody stretched the center
>> of the "film" towards the lens, so of course it's out of focus. One or
>> two steroid shots in the eye should clear it up in a couple of months. I
>> got the first--and hopefully the only one!--on Friday. The odds are
>> very good that I'm going to be OK.
>>
>> This is a cautionary tale for all of us. If you notice a change in your
>> vision, DO NOT WAIT. See an eye doctor as soon as possible. In the last
>> 3 weeks I have had two major issues that could have destroyed my vision
>> in each eye. It was my going to a good ophthalmologist as soon as I
>> noticed the problem that saved my vision.
>>
>> I'm trying to keep a sense of humor about it, but it's been NO FUN!
>>
>> --Peter
>>
>> (*) OCT stands for Ocular Coherence Tomography. That was fascinating.
>> It created three-dimensional cross-sectional pictures of my retina.
>>
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