I'll pray for healing and I'll pray that your eye doctor can use his talents to heal you. I'm sorry to hear about your eye. I'm sure it must be disheartening. I'm only 51 and am already very concerned about several crushed discs in my lower back. I feel like an old man way before my time.

Anyway ... I hope your story has a happy ending.

 

Keep us informed...I will honestly be thinking about you as you head to the doctor.

 

Me too. Very best of luck to you.

 

Best of luck, Rache. We'll keep you in our thoughts.

 

Maybe you'll get better news than you think hopefully. Take good care of your good one. My Mom had MD (macular degeneration) and it was scary for her. Hang in there.

 

You are in my prayers. And I'm hoping for the best result for you.

 

My thoughts and prayers are heading your way. Hope you get good news tomorrow and your sight can be treated.

 

The very best to you...My prayers are with you..Please keep us posted....

 

Keep us posted, we're all with you. When i was younger i was in a car accident and had a string of retinal detachments that left me with maybe 50% vision in my right eye to this day and for the rest of my life.

 

Thank you guys,

I am waiting for the office to open this morning to call. It could be retina detachment. It has the symptoms of it. Black spot with flashes of light.

I know I have scare tissue attached to the retina and the doc always checks to see if it's still there. His main concern is my one good eye.

It is scary slowly watching what little sight you have be stripped away. Hope they either do something to fix this annoying flashes or tell me what to expect and how long it will take.

Currently I have no vision in right bottom part of eye. It's alsowly spreading. Started late friday with I thought was a large floater or hunk of scar tissue. Got worse yesterday and steadily growing. I have a set doc appt for fri but I don't think thie eye will last that long.

would hate to show up at my reg doc's and say "surprise."

going into office cause they at least have my records. An Er would not have that.

 

Good to go to a specialist. ER doctors are awesome and necessary but they're not specialists (in most cases) in any particular procedure so they probably would have put a patch on your eye and advised you to see your eye doctor (which is what you did and are doing). Bring us some good news.

 

Great news!

My appt is at 10:45 and it's with the doc that did my surgery when I was younger. This is the only doc (and he's a specialist) who I would rather see over my own. He's one of the top eye surgeons in the entire state. YES!

 

best of luck, i hope they can make something positive come out of this.

 

Fingers crossed and rosary beads in action.

Good luck, I have a little sight loss too, not as bad as yours, but I feel for you.

 

retina detaching. heading for surgery.

 

sorry to hear that, good luck

can they do retinal transplant's these days?

 

update:

went to surgeon. couldn't do emergency office procedure due to scare tissue. Having full operation wed morning. Tomorrow pre-op testing.

 

It sounds like you are in very good hands.

 

thought I would describe what I'm seeing. My eye was injured when I was little. Have half the iris, no lense and scare tissue. Doc said it would appear better if I lay flat. This doesn't seem to be the case.

when I lay flat I see a huge dark spot over half my eye. Right side of vision. What looks like flashes trace the outline of the dark area. (the dark area is supposed to be where the blood is.)

When I stand up the area drops to the lower right corner of the line of vision. I still see the light streaks when the eye moves or blinks. I also see what looks like a floater that comes and goes.

Doc said what would happen with no surgery is the retina would detach and eventually the eye would turn white and shrink. (Doesn't sound good either.)

 

rachelinnys, my husband and I will be praying for you!
I'm so sorry that this happened to you, HUGS from a distance!

 

surgery at 9:45 am. no food or drink after midnight.

 

i thought that was standard policy, or else...

 

Hang in there!

 

It sounds like your retina detached and folded back onto itself. The same thing happened to me when i was a kid, scared the holy bajesus out of me. If you ever need some moral support or have any questions, i know the entire procedure almost back to front to side to side multiple times over.

 

yesterday they did the surgery. had to use far more anastigia than normal. 4 times as much to get me under. Then I felt higher than a kite the rst of the day.

today I feel like I was in a bar fight. Eye is swollen and hung over. Go back to doc for follow up afternoon.

 

got back from follow up. doc said I had a small tear but I also have a number of thin spots. Have air bubbles inside my eye (he put them there) to help stabalize retina. Will wear off in about 12 days.

I can see light but that's about it. where the air bubbles are it kind of bounces and jiggles like jello. wierd.

 

I also had the same thing, gaseous bubbles to stabilize the retina. Not fun to get those removed...the reason everything is appearing to look like what i am assuming is yellowish jello is because the images your eye is sending to your retina are being obstructed by the bubbles, therefore you see the bubbles. Like a piece of dirt on the lens of a camera somewhat.

 

glad to hear you may not lose the eyesight completely?