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Hello there. I (20F) had retinal detachment surgery November last year after getting the curtain symptom. My right eye went through PPV with silicone oil and scleral buckling, and my left went through lasers. Because of the pandemic, the oil removal was pushed to just recently, late June, and I got a cataract along with it. So after the oil removal and the cataract surgery, my eye has been healing but it's about 4 weeks in and I told my ophthalmologist that the central vision isn't clearing up but the peripherals are sharp. The retina is completely flat he tells me. He asked if my right eye was a lazy eye before or if it had a tendency to be one, I said it didn't and that my right eye was the stronger one before the detachment. He told me to go through an OCT scan to check on my macula. And he also gave me lutein supplements.
What could be the worst and best case scenarios that have happened to my right eye? What could be the most likely scenario? Should I be worried that my central vision won't be as crisp, I'm already very thankful that my vision was restored in my right eye.
Thank you so much for commenting.
Hey everyone, I'm feeling conflicted about something.
I'm a 30F and on Monday I woke up with spots in my vision on my left eye. I thought I was getting a migraine so I took some pain pills and went to work, no big deal. I never got a headache, but the spots never went away either. I decided if they were still there Tuesday when I woke up, I'd go to the optometrist. It was still there, so I went to a local affordable place. He took an image and there were hemorrhages in my eye. He referred me to an ophthalmologist and had me go over immediately.
They did the same test as well as another, and then diagnosed me with something called central retinal vein occlusion. This commonly happens to older people, but not usually someone my age. The doctor seemed concerned about why it happened to me and made me appointments with my primary care and a cardiologist, as well as setting me up to have blood drawn for labs.
I saw my primary care yesterday and his response to it all was basically a big shrug. He's waiting on the test results to see if it's a blood coagulation thing, at which time he *might* prescribe a blood thinner, but maybe not. He said he'd consult with a hematologist at the hospital but there wasn't much to do except wait for the hemorrhages to reabsorb (kind of like bruises). It's a crapshoot on if my vision will be permanently affected or not. He seemed pretty certain that it had nothing to do with my heart, but told me to keep the appointment with the cardiologist anyway. I asked about whether we would find out why this happened, and that's when the shrugging came in. He said probably not and that all we could do is treat. I understand this is common in the real world and life isn't like TV, but that bothers me.
I'm also worried about going to the cardiologist because I do have medical insurance, but my deductible is ridiculously high. I'm upset because I'm worried about my vision, whether there's something else going on (I mean, I find it hard to believe my blood might have randomly coagulated and caused an occlusion and we'll never know why). I don't know how concerned I should be, and whether it will be worth it to go see the cardiologist or not.
Hi everyone - hoping someone can share their knowledge, experience, or expertise with Central Serous Chorioretinopathy or Retinal Adema (my doctor mentioned both). I've been diagnosed with the condition about a month ago and had a test to confirm (the fluid injected in my my arm - unsure what the procedure is called). Ive also received a focal laser photocoagulation treatment to the eye about a week ago - the Dr. recommended it - but the symptoms have not improved. The laser treatment only took a minute but really irritated my eye, but doesn't seem like anything improved and I'm hoping it didn't make it worse.
I've always had good vision, never needed glasses, etc, so having this condition has really messed me up at work and in my personal life ( I work at a computer all day and reading the screen is difficult with a half blurry eye and I play tennis, which makes tracking the ball extremely difficult). I catch myself closing th bad eye regularly just so I can focus in on what I'm doing or reading. Needless to say it has been challenging to go from good vision to 50 percent of my regular vision.
Does anyone know how what else I can do to help improve this situation? I feel helpless and almost feel like it will never heal on it's own, particularly because it came out of nowhere. Every morning I wake up hoping to see normally again, but to no avail thusfar.
Any thoughts, ideas, experience, or anything to share would be helpful...thanks all!
Hi all, a month ago i woke up with blurred vision in one eye, turned out i had high blood pressure (doctor baffled as i am a 30 year old healthy, non smoking female) and it had caused my eye to haemorrhage
Anyway as i said in the title i have CRVO and have to have injections
I was wondering if anyone else has been through this and if there are any chances of getting my vision back
I did ask the Doctor but its always nice to talk to someone thats been through the same or similar
Thank you in advance
