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Roller said:
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.
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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!
 
Cmaier said:
Given the floater, the sensitivity to light coming in at certain times of day/angles,
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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.

Roller said:
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.
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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.
 
Katbel said:
Thanks a lot for your concern and tips! Good reminder to avoid dilation of the pupils too.
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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.
 
Herdfan said:
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.
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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.
 
Herdfan said:
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.
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If you're asking whether altitude can affect cataract surgery/lenses and/or intra-ocular pressures, the answer to both based on what I've read is yes. The effects on cataract surgery are explained here. Apparently, there is also a relationship to glaucoma, but at higher altitudes than most of us experience.

Personally, I haven't had any untoward effects on my vision living at about 5,400', nor did I notice anything while spending a few days at almost twice that altitude.
 
This happened this week. The girls got me a lottery scratch ticket for my birthday, matched 3 gold, scratched the prize side, couldn't quite figure out what was going on ...


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"I think I ... won ... ? ... there's something written on it ?!?!"

HOLY F-IN HELL ...


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Hahaha, the custom Esty scratch off ticket was amazing :D

So excited for this, the wife is too, we had both wanted to: 1) see a show at The Sphere, and B) see Metallica (again). She said her and the daughter waited in the virtual queue for like 3 hours, and they sold out for a year.

And it's TWO show on the same trip with a special "no rerun" performance each night so totally different sets !! 🤘 The Venetian is actually connected to the sphere so we have like our own direct access!
 
DT said:
This happened this week. The girls got me a lottery scratch ticket for my birthday, matched 3 gold, scratched the prize side, couldn't quite figure out what was going on ...


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"I think I ... won ... ? ... there's something written on it ?!?!"

HOLY F-IN HELL ...


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Hahaha, the custom Esty scratch off ticket was amazing :D

So excited for this, the wife is too, we had both wanted to: 1) see a show at The Sphere, and B) see Metallica (again). She said her and the daughter waited in the virtual queue for like 3 hours, and they sold out for a year.

And it's TWO show on the same trip with a special "no rerun" performance each night so totally different sets !! 🤘 The Venetian is actually connected to the sphere so we have like our own direct access!
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Congrats, wow that's going the extra mile! (y)
 
Roller said:
Just got back from a No Kings event. It was good to see and talk to people who are just as disgusted by what’s happening as I.
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I talked to few friends in Europe and they are both protesting and joining No Kings , no War events
Here 🇨🇦 too
Rump is the most hated person in the world, in case you missed that ..
 
Not sure that I've ever gotten an email with a price reduction instead of an increase but that's what happened. Good for Google for doing us right here.

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Eric said:
Not sure that I've ever gotten an email with a price reduction instead of an increase but that's what happened. Good for Google for doing us right here.

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Hopefully it wasn't on April 1st, I could see the follow-up email ...

"Did we get you? Of course it's not going down, we're Google! In fact, it's going up to $29.99 a month. LOLZ"
 
OK. Deep breath ...

We're all signed off, lease docs done, up front payments, etc. We have a new place to live :) We can start moving in May 1, we're set with a moving company (went with a higher end option of a few quotes, feels better, they provided a really detailed assessment/quote).

Honestly, we're VERY excited, and sure, a touch anxious, but this will be good. We are worn out on this area, place, house, we need a nice reset. New city (that we already love, because ... actual city ... 😄 ), no more house (going rental for a year or two), daughter getting out of this f***ing high school here, we have zero connections here, it'll be a nice, clean GTFO! Been here since 2001. We walk away with some nice equity having been here 2 blocks from the ocean for 25 years 🙂 Property values, excellent, life experience ... f*** this 😄

We met with a company that provides realty services but also estate sales (so you can bail on the house contents and they sell them). Got an estimate (range) for the listing, it's good, it's expected, however, a neighbor is very interested, no commission, as-is (no pre-listing prep of which there would be dome), it would be perfect!

Daughter doesn't finish school here till early June, so we'll juggle both for a few (and we've got a great plan for "furniture distribution" :D )

Have another Dis trip planned mid-May, we'll stay at the new digs. B O O M !
 
DT said:
OK. Deep breath ...

We're all signed off, lease docs done, up front payments, etc. We have a new place to live :) We can start moving in May 1, we're set with a moving company (went with a higher end option of a few quotes, feels better, they provided a really detailed assessment/quote).

Honestly, we're VERY excited, and sure, a touch anxious, but this will be good. We are worn out on this area, place, house, we need a nice reset. New city (that we already love, because ... actual city ... 😄 ), no more house (going rental for a year or two), daughter getting out of this f***ing high school here, we have zero connections here, it'll be a nice, clean GTFO! Been here since 2001. We walk away with some nice equity having been here 2 blocks from the ocean for 25 years 🙂 Property values, excellent, life experience ... f*** this 😄

We met with a company that provides realty services but also estate sales (so you can bail on the house contents and they sell them). Got an estimate (range) for the listing, it's good, it's expected, however, a neighbor is very interested, no commission, as-is (no pre-listing prep of which there would be dome), it would be perfect!

Daughter doesn't finish school here till early June, so we'll juggle both for a few (and we've got a great plan for "furniture distribution" :D )

Have another Dis trip planned mid-May, we'll stay at the new digs. B O O M !
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Wow congrats, an exciting new chapter in your lives.
 
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