Detached Retina

[Tilly2]

Anyone experienced the above? Can you tell me how you fared, please?

[Sqad]

Not me,thank goodness,but the website links will soon follow.

[Boto]

I did in 2002. The hole in the retina was in the worst possible place - by the macula so I can’t see properly with that eye. The other eye compensates though. I had the op with a local anaesthetic, it was ok, sounds worse than it actually was. Procedures may be different now.

[tamborine]

Hubby had same from an accident. 2yrs of eye drops & eye injections left him blind in affected eye. All treatment was private, via Harley St. specialist. He suffered a lot of pain from the injury that demanded analgesics.

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Sqad. I've done the website links. I just want some real life experience.

Thank you Boto and Tambo.

[straydog]

I have 5 years ago. I fell over backwards and my head hit the concrete hard. By a string of very lucky coincidences, my optician (already booked for a routine eye test) spotted it, phoned ahead and sent me straight to hospital. Everything stopped there and I had immediately laser surgery after being given anaesthetic drops. I didn’t feel a thing and it all went well. Previously the very thought of laser eye surgery made me squeamish but I had no time to think about it. My sight was saved thinks to the quick action of the NHS.

[Sqad]

I know Tilly... I know.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Straydog. That's the sort of experience I was looking for. Not too bad then?

I am enquiring about this for my elderly aunt who had a fall a month ago and badly bruised her face. She has now gone through the motions and is travelling to Birmingham tomorrow to get it treated. Hopefully, they will be able to sort it out.

[Peter Pedant]

straight forward and pain less ( in case anyone is following the thread where the lady screamed and screamed as tho it were some sort of Ghost programme)

Laser for small ones
and something called cerclage for larger
both have good results

[Mamyalynne]

Peter - the only person who mentioned screaming on the 'stone in bile duct' thread was you.

Stop making things up.

[Buenchico]

I know that you've already looked at relevant links but, rather than just offering bland clinical information, the following links go to people's personal experiences of the condition and its treatment (which is what you've asked for), so I hope that they might still help you:

https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/health-wellbeing/conditions/sight/detached-retina

https://www.healthywomen.org/content/article/tales-retinal-detachment

http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2014/02/retina-detachment-my-personal-story.html

[satprof]

A month is, I believe, a dangerously long time to leave a detached retina untreated. My father-in-law got seen in Moorfields about two weeks after his fall. They wouldn't then let him leave the building as his retina was breaking up. I had the impression that the laser treatment almost 'spot-welded' the pieces back in place. He did retain vision in that eye but only at a much-reduced level.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Chris. Those two links were very inrormative.

Satproof, she kept saying she was ok after her fall and refused to go to the hospital because of the pandemic. When she realised that her eye was not getting better, she finally called the doctor and things got moving very quickly afterwards.

[Tilly2]

^informative^

[tamborine]

wow, am surprised at these recoveries considering my husbands experience c1997. His eye was bloodshot for months & covered by an eye shield.

[Tilly2]

Perhaps things have moved on since then, Tambo.

[Peter Pedant]

No I disagree
there is afar too much emphasis on "I screamed and screamed and the doctors didnt do a damn thng except laugh!"

and not nearly enough on - this is a common condition, easily diagnosed and treated with a variety of treatment options al of which are painless and have good results

and Sat Prof - your relation was serious and had tried to get out of the window instead of the clinic door ...they cd also see fork marks on his cheek where he had missed putting food into his mouth that morning. You can see the size of the rip with the shiny instrument ( ophthalmoscope )

worry not - it will be OK

[Peter Pedant]

tambos hubby had the biggy called cerclage

what dat den - sir-clidge? no sair- clarge
and yes times have changed

Hey I last did this in 1976 and was 18th in the gondree.
You just need to read a book on it
I was top of the london students and there were 17 from belfast above me - we thought they er had been given the paper.

and look ! ( eedoo in Greek or as TTT wd say - Latin)
50 y later - an unread contributor to AB ! such is life .....

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Peter. (I think) :-)

[Tilly2]

All done and dusted.

Thanks for all the replies. My aunt seems to be ok.