Anyone With Serious Eye Problems

Jules

Jules

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For me it was a detached retina treated with a vitrectomy & numerous failed operations. It’s my two year anniversary. Other than light & blurry shapes, I’m essentially blind in that eye. With only vision in the one eye, there’s no depth perception. Walking down the stairs is trying, to say the least. You wouldn’t believe how much I spill when trying to pour a glass of water. Usually I stick my finger in to feel when it’s getting full. If I keep lighting conditions just right, watching tv and reading are reasonable. Considering the many things that can go wrong with one’s body, the only thing to do is accept it.

Having seen how full the Opthamologists’ offices are, there are probably a few of us here with issues of different sorts.
 

jujube said:
After two unsuccessful surgeries on my right eye, I have no central vision in the eye and poor peripheral vision in it. They want to do more surgery but I've pretty much decided to quit while I still have some vision in that eye.
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Yep
My right eye is like that
Still good peripheral, but central ain't there
And straight lines are squiggly in places
My left eye still has central, but not as good as it was
Sadly, looking at the stars ain't what it used to be
 
im going thru this now, retina issues. surgery 4 coming up next week. Almost 5 months of surgeries, dr visits, eye drops. Ive been unable to drive since this started because my eye Im relying on is also bad (since child hood). Its been so difficult I would not wish this on anyone. Still don’t know if I’ll have my sight back after this is all done. They took my lense out so that will be another surgery maybe.
 
It’s absolute hell going through this so I totally commiserate with you, @macgeek Did you have to do the face down 24/7 after the surgeries?

Nighttime driving is over for me. In the daytime it’s non-sunny, non busy days. I know I can drive if I have to, I just don’t want to.
 
yes, I had to stay face down for just 3 days/nights, so I was lucky. I have a partial tear and detachment. My brother had his entire retina detach, he had to keep his head down for 6 weeks!

I’ve been having issues with bleeding, scar tissue, and low pressure. They are putting the buckle on my eye next week. hopefully that fixes the low pressure issues.
 
I’m so sorry you are going through this Jules and anyone else. My husband has mascular degeneration in one eye and is missing the other. The good news is that his eye doctor suggested visulux supplements and goijo berries. His eye disease hasn’t changed in the last three years.

This must be terrifying for you Jules.
Do you have anyone there to help you with this?
 
Keesha said:
Do you have anyone there to help you with this?
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Family or doctor?

My husband has been chauffeuring me around to appointments for the past two years.

The retinal specialists are out of town and I’ve had to have surgeries in Vancouver too.

In hind sight (pun), we would have been better retiring to a larger community.

I feel for your husband too. ❤️
 
Jules said:
Family or doctor?

My husband has been chauffeuring me around to appointments for the past two years.

The retinal specialists are out of town and I’ve had to have surgeries in Vancouver too.

In hind sight (pun), we would have been better retiring to a larger community.

I feel for your husband too. ❤️
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He’s an optometrist. The nicest doctor we have ever been to. He’s East Indian and has the nicest most respectful bedside manner. He’s got a perfect balance between compassionate person and professional doctor.

You are right. Moving to places that aren’t popular don’t have as good medical services.
We have certainly been spoiled in that department where we live now because we have optimal medical services. The kind of surgery and the aftermath of these surgeries sound incredibly painful. I can’t imagine what you are going through. It must be scary.
 
macgeek said:
yes, I had to stay face down for just 3 days/nights, so I was lucky. I have a partial tear and detachment. My brother had his entire retina detach, he had to keep his head down for 6 weeks!

I’ve been having issues with bleeding, scar tissue, and low pressure. They are putting the buckle on my eye next week. hopefully that fixes the low pressure issues.
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Font size macgeek is using is easy on the eyes
Bet there is a number of us on SF that 'LIKE' large fonts-bet'cha
 
You all are breaking my heart! I HATE physical suffering....mine and anybody else's.. Especially when it involves eyes.

If I could wave a wand or do something that would make you all healthy again, I would!
If there is anything in life that plisses me off, this is it.
Sounds like I better avoid any threads about health..too upsetting.
 
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jerry old said:
Font size macgeek is using is easy on the eyes
Bet there is a number of us on SF that 'LIKE' large fonts-bet'cha
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I use the Firefox browser, which has an inbuilt zoom level. I just raise the zoom level to whatever works for me on any particular site, which may differ from website to website. And Firefox saves my choices from website to website. Very cool.
 
For any site that I’m on regularly, I increase the size.

A few years ago I would’ve needed to use library books with large font. Now, I just read online and make the size any that I want. Or any brightness.
 
Robert59 said:
Doctor told me I have 20/30 vision which I don't know if this is real bad?
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If it’s the same as how eyesight is measured here then it is worse than normal but not too bad. If you have 20/20 vision then you see the same at a distance of 20 feet as a person with normal vision. 20/30 means you see the same at a distance of 30 feet as a person with normal vision sees at 20 feet. A person with 20/200 vision or worse like my girlfriend is considered legally blind

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/what-does-20-20-vision-mean
 
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Not me but my girlfriend who suffers from a condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa and is legally blind. RP as it’s called affects the rods and cones in the retina that register light perception and colour and at the moment there’s no cure or treatment. RP leads to gradual loss of vision starting with night blindness. As the disease progresses you start to lose peripheral vision and your field of vision decreases. Eventually it can result in total loss of vision. My girlfriend has advanced RP and is almost totally blind. She has no vision at all in her left eye and describes what she can see with her right eye like looking through a tiny pinhole of frosted glass with blurry edges. We know that she will lose that small amount of vision in the near future which will leave her totally blind with no light perception. We don’t know when. She could wake up blind tomorrow. She’s now learning to read and write in Braille and use a white cane to navigate as well as other skills to live without sight. She’s 35 years old
 
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