Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

I had laser surgery, 3 visits, which stabilized my eye. I went 19 years with no more problems. Last fall, I started getting symptoms that reminded me of that episode, migraines, feeling of eye strain, pain with brightness. I saw my eye specialist and he said my retina was stable, but I had cataracts. I put off surgery because except for brightness bringing on migraine symptoms, I felt like my vision was ok. I drive my grand kids often, so I decided to go ahead and have the cataract surgery June 6th. My eye specialist, who did the surgery, warned my vision would be blurry, maybe up to a month. I took it easy for a week, even though there aren't any limits these days. I went for my follow-up appt. yesterday and he said I had leakage on the retina. He sent me to a retina specialist and I got a shot of Eylea in my eye. I have to go back for at least 2 more shots. I liked the laser surgery a lot more, and I want to see if I can do that instead.

I am angry that the eye specialist didn't give me any specific warning that the cataract surgery might affect the retina. It is in the warnings in the papers they gave me, but no one discussed it with me. The retina specialist said that if the cataract surgery did bring the CNV out of hibernation, it is very rare for it to happen. I'm not planning to have the other cataract removed. I also found out that there are several places in my left eye that could become problems. I'm going to start taking eye vitamins, and the cannabis is sounding good. I've been sprinkling turmeric on my food and have noticed I don't have aches and pains like I used to.

Right now, my left eye vision is still blurry because it is still dilated (up to 48 hours) and my right eye has a black spot in front of it. The only good thing I saw was that it looks like the leakage is off to the side rather than right in the middle of the macula. My daughter thinks the steroid drops I had to use might have increased pressure, so I really don't even know what got me back in this scary spot.

I sympathize with you. I read a lot about macular degeneration and other retinal disease back in 2000 and I thought that there was a lot of research and advances in slowing down, even reversing vision loss from the disease. I just signed up for email from Cleveland Clinic vision center.

Good luck. Try not to worry, because you might add stress to all of your body parts