[patsy]

Crazy stuff! Hope the rest of the procedures go well.

[ro4eva]

Originally Posted by starpaladincross ↗

Thanks for reading this! I've been a lurker forever and decided to post now that something interesting happened to me. I am expected to regain full use of my right eye, but will be 2x as nearsighted as I initially was. The bad part about this is that they found several holes in the retina of my left eye. I need to have laser surgery to repair the holes before they become tears and then another detachment. I hope somebody can take pictures of them lasering my eye...

First off, awesome pics and thanks for sharing.

I'm curious as to what happened for your retina to become detached? I understand it's a disorder but is there a trigger or did it just happen one day out of the blue?

[Spiffyfable]

Yikes...

Thanks for the post and Hope it Gets Better

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by Spitfire Dynamo ↗

Thank you for sharing this. I had the same thing happen to my left eye 2 years ago. I had surgery to correct a slight lazy eye left from untreated strabismus when I was a child. No sight, the surgery was strictly cosmetic. Afterward the eye would dry out at night and the retina would stick to the inner eyelid. I woke up one morning and as soon as I opened my eyes there it went. Painful! I hope all goes well in the healing process for you!

They did surgery for a lazy eye on my brother when he was 18 months old. I was about 6 and they put him in my room in case he woke up.

I cried because the white of his eye was red and I thought he was bleeding out his eye.

I hope your situation has gotten better. I'm sorry to hear you have no sight in that eye. It looks painful!

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by starpaladincross ↗

Thanks for reading this! I've been a lurker forever and decided to post now that something interesting happened to me. I am expected to regain full use of my right eye, but will be 2x as nearsighted as I initially was. The bad part about this is that they found several holes in the retina of my left eye. I need to have laser surgery to repair the holes before they become tears and then another detachment. I hope somebody can take pictures of them lasering my eye...

Thank you for joining us at long last! Sooner or later, I find there is something we can all relate to or wish to share with the others.

Are you on the East Coast? I'd take pictures.

[Pyramid_Head]

The affected eye in the last pic looked pretty cool.

[GlassToTheArson]

My daughter scratched my cornea about a year ago. As badly as that hurt, I can't imagine what this must feel like.

[TwistedPrincess]

my left eye has had 5 surgeries... uncrossed at around age 3. later in my 40's it had gone back to crossed so i had it done again. the loop slipped so a few days later i had it done again. i also had a detached retina several years before that and then around 2 yrs ago i had cataract surgery.

what type of surgery did they do to reattach your retina? they put a gas bubble in mine and for several days or a week or so i saw what looked like grapes in my eye... which was the gas bubble. it slowly dissolved.

with all the surgery all in one eye, it is actually my better eye. i am nearly blind in my right eye. could get cataract surgery in it but then both eyes would see far and i would need reading glasses. as it stands, left eye for looking in the distance, right eye for looking close. (due to being born cross eyed i can't use both eyes at once and therefore lack depth perception.)

[rheedork]

That must've hurt. I've once ruptured both my corneas and the pain was beyond awful.

[starpaladincross]

Originally Posted by ro4eva ↗

First off, awesome pics and thanks for sharing.

I'm curious as to what happened for your retina to become detached? I understand it's a disorder but is there a trigger or did it just happen one day out of the blue?

I woke up on a Friday before the surgery and just noticed that my vision looked funny. I thought it might have been my contact lens, but that wasn't the case. After 3 days I had lost nearly all of my sight and had gone to the ER. They referred me to a specialist and it took me another 3 days before I had the surgery. It can be a genetic thing, caused by accident, etc. Mine was just spontaneous, and there are holes in the retina of my other eye so maybe this is the way it was meant to be.