A bit busy now, but I plan to post details about my eye health issues in case anyone else has had similar issues and some feedback

 

In the meantime, just curious : how often do you get your eyes checked? yearly?

3 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

A bit busy now, but I plan to post details about my eye health issues in case anyone else has had similar issues and some feedback

 

In the meantime, just curious : how often do you get your eyes checked? yearly?

 

Annually, main concerns, hypertensive retinopathy and cataracts........I'm guessing both are caused by my polio vaccination as a five year old.

Ok, so here goes the 1st problem I have: FLOATERS

 

I see faint shadows and dots in my vision.

The female doctor said she has the same and just lives with it. 

She said it's not harmful and it can't be fixed.

 

It's annoying. I wonder if I'll just stop noticing it after a while and learn to live with it.

 

Anyone else have these floaters? 

 

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Ok, so here goes the 1st problem I have: FLOATERS

 

I see faint shadows and dots in my vision.

The female doctor said she has the same and just lives with it. 

She said it's not harmful and it can't be fixed.

 

It's annoying. I wonder if I'll just stop noticing it after a while and learn to live with it.

 

Anyone else have these floaters? 

 

 

I have/had them, they were very prominent about 5 years ago, I don't know if my brain has adapted to them or they were reabsorbed into the eye fluid - I think both are possible,  It has been about 5 years now since they first appeared, but except for one small spot they have "disappeared".

Occasionally I still get tricked into thinking that small dot is a gnat or an ant, bit annoying that is !!

11 hours ago, expat_4_life said:

 

I have/had them, they were very prominent about 5 years ago, I don't know if my brain has adapted to them or they were reabsorbed into the eye fluid - I think both are possible,  It has been about 5 years now since they first appeared, but except for one small spot they have "disappeared.

 

so you just left them alone? didnt do anything?

thanks. 

 

5 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

so you just left them alone? didnt do anything?

 

Correct, they sort of went away on their own.

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Ok, so here goes the 1st problem I have: FLOATERS

 

I see faint shadows and dots in my vision.

The female doctor said she has the same and just lives with it. 

She said it's not harmful and it can't be fixed.

 

It's annoying. I wonder if I'll just stop noticing it after a while and learn to live with it.

 

Anyone else have these floaters? 

 

 

I had it too. It does go away, not dangerous.

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Ok, so here goes the 1st problem I have: FLOATERS

 

I see faint shadows and dots in my vision.

The female doctor said she has the same and just lives with it. 

She said it's not harmful and it can't be fixed.

 

It's annoying. I wonder if I'll just stop noticing it after a while and learn to live with it.

 

Anyone else have these floaters? 

 

Start eating pineapple.....🤗

Once in the past 25+ years, since leaving USA.   Have floaters in the left eye, after Ms Goolge informed what and possible cause, positive or negative may cause them, had an exam.  Maybe 2+ years ago.  

 

Concern of a retina tear set aside from the exam, though told at same time, now have cataract, which I didn't really notice.  Got a 2nd, to verify the info, and same.   2nd doc informed drops and decent pair of shades may help delay cataract worsening.  

 

Been using the drops, seem to be doing something, but haven't invested in shades yet.   Something I do need to do.   Maybe next week, buy a proper, non cheap one, that I might actually take care of, and last more than 6 months, since paying too much for them.

 

Sad, one of our most important body parts, and I think, most like myself, don't check them too often.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1355107-delaying-cataract-surgery-any-associated-dangers/#findComment-19669771

 

11 hours ago, transam said:

Start eating pineapple.....🤗

pineapple for eye floaters?

you jest? 

 

5 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

pineapple for eye floaters?

you jest? 

 

Bromelain in the pineapple breaks down floaters.

10 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

so you just left them alone? didnt do anything?

thanks. 

 

I had them removed in one eye, I had it done when repairing a detachment, they remove all the fluid from your eye and replace it with gas, then wait for the gas to be replaced by your body with fluid. Sadly, I had to lay face down for 10 days..😢

I still haven't got a single floater in my right eye after six years..🤗 

Just now, save the frogs said:

pineapple for eye floaters?

you jest? 

 

Don't know about pineapples, but have also read diet can help, lessen or eliminate.  

 

Keto diet, may simply mean, better nutrients, vit & mineral key to eye health, and less sugar / less inflammation.   I'm on a Keto ish diet, and have noticed, slightly less floaties, or maybe just distracted, as now I notice the cataract more   

 

Pretty sure there are less floaters, and may be the diet or not.  Though the Keto ish diet has improve my overall health, so there's that.   Credit where credit is due.

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

A bit busy now, but I plan to post details about my eye health issues in case anyone else has had similar issues and some feedback

 

In the meantime, just curious : how often do you get your eyes checked? yearly?

Every year.

And I try to have a good amount of Lutein every day

16 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

pineapple for eye floaters?

you jest? 

 

 

11 hours ago, transam said:

I had them removed in one eye, I had it done when repairing a detachment,

 

What detachment? Retina? 

 

 

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

What detachment? Retina? 

 

 

Yes, had one 24 years back too....So at the mo, I am on 2 detachments and 2 cataracts done......🥺

10 hours ago, transam said:

Yes, had one 24 years back too....So at the mo, I am on 2 detachments and 2 cataracts done......🥺

 

Ok, glad there is someone here who had this because I am not sure what to do.

 

Doctor said I have a thinning retina (also known as lattice degeneration). 

Which means there is a risk of retina detachment.

So she suggests a laser treatment.

I googled the laser treatment and there seems to some risk with this procedure. It's not risk free. 

 

And I also read that that lattice degeneration does not always lead to retina detachment.

 

So I am thinking of just leaving it alone.

 

But I would like to know how retina detachment works. How do you know when you have it? It it painful? Do you get flashes in the eye?

 

I also read that if retina detachment is not fixed within a few days, it can lead to blindness. 

 

Any comments about retina detachment you can share? 

 

Is it a fairly simple surgical procedure? 

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, save the frogs said:

 

Ok, glad there is someone here who had this because I am not sure what to do.

 

Doctor said I have a thinning retina (also known as lattice degeneration). 

Which means there is a risk of retina detachment.

So she suggests a laser treatment.

I googled the laser treatment and there seems to some risk with this procedure. It's not risk free. 

 

And I also read that that lattice degeneration does not always lead to retina detachment.

 

So I am thinking of just leaving it alone.

 

But I would like to know how retina detachment works. How do you know when you have it? It it painful? Do you get flashes in the eye?

 

I also read that if retina detachment is not fixed within a few days, it can lead to blindness. 

 

Any comments about retina detachment you can share? 

 

Is it a fairly simple surgical procedure? 

 

 

 

 

My first detachment (2001) happened overnight back in England. Went to my local hozzy to be told you have a retina problem, go home pack a bag and make your way to St. Thomas's Hospital in London, they have a bed for you waiting.

 

Hmmm, so, got on a train to the major London hospital. They operated at midnight, full anaesthetic. Woke up the next morning to find I had a plastic clip around the back of my eye 🥺.

They said, sorry, we couldn't do anything about the floaters, we put a plastic clip around your eye to fix the retina too, if it gives you any trouble we can remove it later when everything has paired and settled down.

As it happened, I couldn't feel it was there, and as far as I know it is still there or disintegrated. 

The one I had in LOS was a different matter, I had just had a cataract done, which does have a small risk of a detachment, I was unlucky, and the surgeon said there was nothing wrong, but the blackness got worse. A really long story to that....

 

Anyhoooo, ended up in a gov hozzy up north that had a surgeon and equipment to have a go at it. 5 hour drive, a horrendous time at the hospital to see the main guy, a Professor in the field.

He said "you have 2 detachments, I will operate tonight, strangely midnight". 

"I would like to do the procedure with local anaesthetic, shouldn't be too uncomfortable unless I have to use N2O", he used laser AND N2O, that was painful.

 

Then 4 days in bed laying on my face, then 6 days looking at the floor or laying on my face, my eye was now full of gas pressing on the repair..🤕

 

But, all is well and fingers crossed.....🤗

 

6 hours ago, Will B Good said:

.I'm guessing both are caused by my polio vaccination as a five year old.

Yeah, as Robert Kennedy Junior would say: Better an iron lung -- than cataracts.

Have had Cataract operation on both eyes, in the last 3 years.

 

Was diagnosed with Glaucoma when I had the first surgery & use Timolol drops every day.

 

 Vision is good, although I use reading glasses.

 

Going for a check up next month.

 

 

1 hour ago, JimGant said:

Yeah, as Robert Kennedy Junior would say: Better an iron lung -- than cataracts.

 

That's three lols I have had to today.....555