Earlier this year I had a check up at the ophthalmologist to check on my retinal detachments and the latest with my eyes.
Had a right eye detachment in June 2002 and left eye two tears in May 2004.
I have terrible vision my whole life to add the rest of my ailments.
I was diagnosed with a macular pucker in my right eye. It has suddenly gotten worse to where reading sentences is wavy, distorted to small sections and looks to be moving. The only solution is a vitrectomy, where they cut open your eyeball and remove the scar tissue and floaters to hopefully correct your vision. It's a dangerous and can be very painful operation.
Has anyone here had/have one and what should I expect as time progresses? [Reply]
Originally Posted by scho63:
Vitrectomies have some heavier than normal risk. Gotten much better and I won't take the surgery unless I'm put under. Some surgeons do it under local and there is no damn way I am doing that. My brother had two retinal detachments and the second one they did while he was awake and said it was painful as ****.
Full recovery is 2-3.
If I close my right eye no issues.
My maternal grandmother had a ton of eye issues and so do my brother, sister and I.
It is brutal and scary.
Just do it under local, pussy.
My first one they put me under completely and it was overkill. Recovery sucks but you gotta get it fixed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by PatMahomesIsGod:
Just do it under local, pussy.
My first one they put me under completely and it was overkill. Recovery sucks but you gotta get it fixed.
Listen to Coach here. He knows what he is talking about!
"Don't be be a puss and do it". Seems like words your buddies would say to you when you were younger and then whatever you did was in retrospect a bad idea. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Eureka:
Listen to Coach here. He knows what he is talking about!
"Don't be be a puss and do it". Seems like words your buddies would say to you when you were younger and then whatever you did was in retrospect a bad idea.
I’ve had 4 eye procedures under local, thanks.
It’s not as bad as Captain Boomer is making it out to be.
Probs has a low pain/discomfort tolerance. [Reply]
Originally Posted by PatMahomesIsGod:
I’ve had 4 eye procedures under local, thanks.
It’s not as bad as Captain Boomer is making it out to be.
Probs has a low pain/discomfort tolerance.
I've had 7-8 major gout attacks and 20 minor ones, I had pancreatitis for 36 hours and thought I was going to die the pain was so bad, I had a root canal without novacaine and all my cavities since mid 20's filled with no novocaine, I went 10 days with a massive blood clot in my left leg and then spent 5 days on my back in the ICU, I've had two retinal detachments surgeries and the fucking awful laser follow up, I had an elbow operation last year for ulnar nerve entrapment.
I have never taken a pain killer in my life.
My pain tolerance is about as high as you will get. You youngsters cry when you get a bad grade in college or someone calls you the wrong pronoun. [Reply]