February 15, 2019
Question: Can prescription glasses help with a wrinkled retina?
Answer: A wrinkled retina (also called macular pucker) can cause distortion or waviness of vision. Unfortunately, these symptoms are not correctable with prescription glasses.
Answered By: Paul Sternberg Jr., MD
That’s too bad. Both of my parents had AMD. Used to watch the eye doc stick a needle in mom’s eye to inject medicine of some sort.
I also had an eye operation where the doc detached the weak muscle, pulled it closer to the front of the eyeball and reattached it. Except for the bifocals portion, I had perfect alignment for a couple of years. But the misalignment is slowly coming back...as the doctor predicted. Ha...actually had three eye operations in one year. This one, and two cataract procedures. Don’t get me started on the floaters. One in each eye...and they’re shaped like little mosquitoes buzzing around the perimeter of my vision.
I hope things work out for you. Modern eye medicine has come a long way! My last high-priced lenses were perfect straight from the lab...not always the case in the past.