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[Katbel]

I hope you get this sorted out. I'm also at risk for glaucoma because of my many eye surgeries and have the pressure monitored routinely. I used to hate having this done, but the procedure has become much easier in recent visits to my ophthalmologist. How was the MRI? I tend to be claustrophobic and had to do some mental exercises when I had them done.

Thanks, and sorry you have to go through this as well.
I did some mental exercises too and it’s already the day after. I always project myself at what I will do later on. Good luck!

 

[Herdfan]

Given the floater, the sensitivity to light coming in at certain times of day/angles,

Not sure that will get better. From your avatar you have blue eyes, as do I. I have always been sensitive to bright sunlight, to the point when I was in military school, I was allowed to wear sunglasses during parades and formations otherwise I had to keep my eyes closed (not a good idea when marching in formation). The surgery didn't help for sure.

Even now I wear polarized sunglasses when outside, even on cloudy days.

I hope you get this sorted out. I'm also at risk for glaucoma because of my many eye surgeries and have the pressure monitored routinely.

Maybe you can provide some insight on this. Before my surgery, I was very nearsighted. To the point if I didn't know it was a big "E" at the top of the eye chart, I couldn't have told you. I was wearing -6.50 contacts.

So being nearsighted, my eyeball was essentially too long and removing the lens and replacing it with a thinner version, would in essence lower the pressure. Basically they said I was at an increased risk of having a detached retina because of this and I should stop diving. This was the one big negative of my surgery because I loved diving.

Do you have any thoughts on how external pressure (1 ATM for every 33') could affect this. I had a friend who had lens replacement surgery (same surgery except 100% elective) and he also dove and asked his doctor and he didn't have any concerns with it.

 

[Herdfan]

Thanks a lot for your concern and tips! Good reminder to avoid dilation of the pupils too.

I dilate very easily. One drop will be good for several hours. For my first eye, it seemed like she put the entire bottle in my eye and I looked like a mad cat for a couple of days. LOL.

The day of my surgery, we were taking my daughter to swim practice and coming home, the oncoming headlights were reflecting off the edge of the implant and it was a very bright ring. I was thinking OMG, I know they said their would be halos, but this will be too much. Fortunately as my dilation decreased, so did those reflections.

For my second eye, I got a different nurse who only put a couple of drops in.

 

[Cmaier]

Not sure that will get better. From your avatar you have blue eyes, as do I. I have always been sensitive to bright sunlight, to the point when I was in military school, I was allowed to wear sunglasses during parades and formations otherwise I had to keep my eyes closed (not a good idea when marching in formation). The surgery didn't help for sure.

Even now I wear polarized sunglasses when outside, even on cloudy days.

The good news for me is that I have a model for how this can go. My right eye had PVD in 2022, I had the same sort of large thread-like floater and sensitivity to oblique light (it causes flares and washes out the image), then 2 months ago I had vitrectomy and now all that is completely gone.

The thing with the right eye was I stopped seeing the floater and weird light effects about a year ago, but that was probably because the cataract blurred everything. And because of the same cataract, I never realized my retina was distorting due to the formation of an epiretinal layer caused by the PVD.

Now I had PVD in the left eye 2 weeks ago. I am seeing the threadlike giant floater and the light flaring and such. I am seeing a tiny amount of bending of straight lines as well, probably because the vitreous has been pulling away for at least a couple months, and the doctor already sees an epiretinal layer forming.

So my hope is the surgeon will agree to proactively go in and pull away any epiretinal layer, remove all the vitreous, and laser any parts of the retina that are in danger of eventually pulling away - same thing he did in the right eye. If it goes as well as the right eye did, I will have something like combined 20/12 vision, and will be able to see straight lines as straight in at least one eye.