Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: E. Pluribus Unum

My vision was clear enough, but just felt “off” for a long time, maybe 10 years or more. I kept complaining to my ophthalmologist and he finally referred me to the retina specialist. He did a lot of retina scans that found the pucker and explained what was going on. I hadn’t noticed the distortion until that diagnosis a couple years ago.

The surgery is scary — drain the eyeball of the vitreous humor, make a small incision, scrape a micron layer off the retinal scarring, and let the body regenerate the vitreous humor. Yikes!

My right eye presents a distorted image of straight horizontal lines. There’s a small downward dip in the middle of the line. It appears as maybe an inch droop of the horizontal line at 20 ft.

Good luck with your visit with your eye doc.


4 posted on 06/10/2024 5:10:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: ProtectOurFreedom
The surgery is scary — drain the eyeball of the vitreous humor, make a small incision, scrape a micron layer off the retinal scarring, and let the body regenerate the vitreous humor. Yikes!

After cataract surgery I had a bunch of floaters in one of my eyes. The surgery my eye doctor did was to siphon out the vitreous humor and replace it with water. Over time the vitreous regenerates. It worked out OK.

7 posted on 06/10/2024 5:17:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson