Retina surgery tomorrow

Prays sent up.
Only saw a few of those cases when I worked disability cases.
Check back in and let us know how it went.

Last Edited by Ursabruin on 07/24/2017 01:06 PM

Wish you all the best and ask for help.

Good luck with the operation and healing.

I have had two retina detach surgeries. Actually 4, if you want to count laser. The non laser ones were the real deal, but do it, or go blind.

Chances are pretty good you'll have glaucoma issues at some point too.

Wishing you success and fast healing

Prays sent! Please check back when you are feeling up to it. I may not know you, but I care.

Prayers for you OP!

good luck

Me too actually, after having cataract surgery in both eyes. If they do a vitrectomy, make sure you get the gas and not the oil for the replacement fluid in your eye and have them add a buckle around your eyeball to be on the safe side.

Of course the doc will do what he wants to but you can mention it.

I know someone that had the oil and no buckle and he's not doing very well at all.

Last Edited by G3 on 07/24/2017 01:58 PM

Prayers up

May I ask who is your surgeon?

Worked for retina x many years.

Lens removal should be easy, uncomplicated (happens eventually in all Marfan pts as zonular fibers that hold lens in place are stretched and break).

If you are scheduled for surgery, are they doing retinopexy with gas? A scleral buckle?

Eye will be sore after so ask for the best pain meds you can get if buckle is done.

Follow all post op instructions to a T, especially head positioning (lay on right side, left side, etc.)

Best of luck to you

Prayers? You got 'em.

As to the detached retina surgery, my mother had this done 25 years ago and the procedure went swimmingly.

Relax and don't worry too much. All will go well.

:-)

Thank you all so much. After meeting the surgeon today he said he will be using the gas method and not the oil. I'm only 33 and have already been through heart surgery so pretty sure I'll be ok with this one.

The very best of luck and prayers for the surgeon. As mentioned above, follow the instructions like your life depends on it and rest, rest, rest.

Did I mention rest?!!

I have had two surgeries for a detached retina. Not fun. Prayers sent.

If there is too much bleeding after the surgery you will get extremely high eye pressure that can destroy your eye in days. So if you feel a lot of pain or are nauseous- get to a large ED QUICKLY. They will need to stick a needle in your eye to reduce the pressure. Had that done dozens of times before they could get it under control.

Good luck.

Yes, on both eyes. Scleral buckle for both.

You'll be fine. My first experience, I saw the "curtain" and did not know wth was wrong with my eye. Second time, I couldn't see anything out of my left eye. I got my eyesight back, but it's not what it was before it happened.

The first surgery, I had general anesthesia and the healing took quite a while. The second time, I just did the local anesthesia and healing was much faster. I also popped a LOT of Vitamin C before/after the surgery and had next to no bruising the second time. The first surgery, I had a massive black eye/bruising.

I could not put the drops in myself for the first little while. My Mom came and stayed with me and did it for me. When I could do it, it was a terrifying sight. My eye looked dead!

The one thing I would HIGHLY recommend is that before you leave the hospital, if they ask you if you are in pain, say YES. I said no because I wasn't at the time and as soon as I got in the cab to go home, about 5 minutes in, my eye started throbbing. By the time I got home, it was absolutely unbearable; it hurt all the way down my neck and my sister had to go get the meds. By the time she got home, she said my entire body was shaking from the pain. Had I said I was in pain in the hospital, I would have avoided that.

The first night is the worst. It'll also hurt when your eye just kind of reflexively moves, but that goes away.

I had my surgeries into 2000 and 2014. The second surgery I was there early morning and home by the afternoon.

Prayers sent! You will be fine. I have no experience with the lens removal, but that's what they do for cataracts, and that's pretty routine.



Oh, and if you get the gas bubble put in your eye, you'll get special instructions on how you must position yourself in bed. Mine, thankfully, was lay on either side. I think there was one where you have to sleep with your head face down in some sort of contraption.

See ya tomorrow...?

Bump for update

Just wondering how OP is doing....

Wow AG, you must have been very young any reason why they detached at such a young age?

I was in my late 40's early 50's when I had mine done withe the gas and the buckle after cataract surgery in both eyes. I can see fine with a light prescription eye glasses and no more floaters which is the best part.

Yup, I had to keep my face face down 24 hrs a day for two weeks and sleep that way sitting up on the couch. That was no fun. I didn't have that much pain though.



Last Edited by G3 on 07/31/2017 10:38 PM