![]() ![]() It is sensitive to light like the film in a camera and is essential for you to be able to see. The retina is a thin layer of nerve cells and blood vessels that lines the inside of the eye. If after reading it you have any concerns or require further explanation, please discuss this with a member of the healthcare team. It is not intended to replace the discussion between you and the healthcare team but may act as a starting point for discussion. Most of your questions should have been answered by this leaflet. This leaflet has been produced to give you general information about your condition. ![]() Need some help choosing a language? Please refer to Browsealoud Supported Voices and Languages. Just wanted to share because it caught me totally off guard but i thank God I still have my sight, however it has been a uphill battle.You can translate this page by using the headphones button (bottom left) and then select the globe to change the language of the page. So I left Dr office to talk to God, and some of my friends because I just wasn,t sure.It's been three years that I've been dealing with this, The shots did help, my vision is better but I try and stay connected to this group because it helps me to understand some of the issues, helps me not to make a rush decision, and directs some of my questions for the opthalmologist. The surgery supposedly went well but I somehow developed inflammation in the eye and they had to give me shots IN MY EYE (freaked me totally out) i asked wasn,t there a pill i could take they said no and the alternative to not taking the shot was blindness. After 3 months they said I needed cataract surgery on this eye, I preceded with the surgery and a year and a half later I am yet wrestling with my eye issues. So they opted to start treatment with the dry eye issue first as it seemed to be the underlying issue. They said well you're getting older and these things occur. I immediately made an appointment with the opthalmologist only to discover a litany of issues with my eyes, detached retina, dry eye syndrome and a host of other things I had never heard of. I too had floaters and periodic flashes of light in the periphery of the right eye that came from out of nowhere. Because of that I will not have an MRI done due to the magnetic effect even though MRIS have changed since then. I am not sure if mine is metal or titanium as it is not mentioned in the old notes that I have from NY. I hope it’s not but if it is, it can be fixed. Go to an ophthalmologist, not your primary, unless you have to for a referral ,and then have him refer you to a retinal specialist. ![]() I don’t mean to scare you….but yes, I guess I do. 911 told him to lay flat on the floor immediately while they went to him. I’ll never forget the women in the next bed who also had a detachment and the reason she consulted a doctor immediately was because her brother had the symptoms and let it go so long that the fluid was leaking out of his eye. ![]() It may not be a detachment but it is not normal and I urge you to go immediately. Because I went so fast, the retina specialist said that they only had to do one procedure (putting a buckle or clip in the eye) as opposed to 2 procedures often done together. I’ll always remember those 2 doctors who saved my eyesight. The specialist confirmed the detachment and said I could go for a second opinion but not wait more than a week. He examined me and while in the office he called a specialist and set me up with an appointment that Monday. I had a stationary floater and only occasionally experienced moving floaters back then. I wore contacts back then and thought they were dirty or that I had abraded the eyeball. I went to my regular ophthalmologist and he opened his office on a Saturday when I told him my eye was cloudy. Had my detachment in right eye in the mid to late 1980s. ![]()
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