OK, I am getting annoyed. I had minor eye surgery a few weeks ago on my left eye to remove a nodule from my cornea - it has healed pretty well (though I can still just barely see the roughness on my cornea where it was peeled off in the magnifying mirror), and then about 10 days ago, I started noticing the biggest blackest floater in my right eye - it looks like a tangle of thick black thread. Most of the time it's mostly out of my visual field, but for the last couple of days, it floated just to the right of my straight ahead vision. I keep jerking my head, thinking something is coming at me.
I've had multiple rounds of laser zaps to tack-weld my retina to the back of my eyes, because I had holes in my lattice and small horseshoe retinal tears in my 30s and 40s. Because of this proactive/preventive treatment, the floater should NOT be from a retinal tear. I've also had both of my posterior vitreous detachments years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_vitreous_detachment), a normal but sometimes annoying process that happens as you get older, so it shouldn't be from that either. Crap.
Anyone with any eye experience (which I would normally call myself) who disagrees that I just need to wait this out? Anyone had YAG laser treatment of floaters?
When my husband had his PVD in his right eye, about 2 years after having Lasik surgery that gave him 20:15 vision, he ended up with a torn retina and a small hemorrhage in his eye, resulting in a smudge in his visual field. He was told it would probably go away, or he'd "learn to ignore it" - neither has happened, and it really disturbs his vision and gives him headaches. I wonder if BOTH of us need to get YAGged?
OK, now I did some more reading (through the squiggles of black thread):
Apparently, insurance doesn't pay for this - and there are very few surgeons who do it as the major part of their practice. There are three in the US, and one is in Irvine CA. (Does this sound familiar? Like finding a DS surgeon 10 years ago?) If my husband is a candidate for this, he should be able to get it done, even in view of the piddly payment insurance will give, if any - and besides, it will still fall under our out-of-network deductible. In reading the guys website (http://vitreousfloatersolutions.com/), my situation is too new to consider treating it yet, until I've given it a chance to resolve.
This damned thing looks like there is a big black spider moving in front of my face, just to the right of my eye. I'm going to hurt myself jumping away from it!
I've had multiple rounds of laser zaps to tack-weld my retina to the back of my eyes, because I had holes in my lattice and small horseshoe retinal tears in my 30s and 40s. Because of this proactive/preventive treatment, the floater should NOT be from a retinal tear. I've also had both of my posterior vitreous detachments years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_vitreous_detachment), a normal but sometimes annoying process that happens as you get older, so it shouldn't be from that either. Crap.
Anyone with any eye experience (which I would normally call myself) who disagrees that I just need to wait this out? Anyone had YAG laser treatment of floaters?
When my husband had his PVD in his right eye, about 2 years after having Lasik surgery that gave him 20:15 vision, he ended up with a torn retina and a small hemorrhage in his eye, resulting in a smudge in his visual field. He was told it would probably go away, or he'd "learn to ignore it" - neither has happened, and it really disturbs his vision and gives him headaches. I wonder if BOTH of us need to get YAGged?
OK, now I did some more reading (through the squiggles of black thread):
Apparently, insurance doesn't pay for this - and there are very few surgeons who do it as the major part of their practice. There are three in the US, and one is in Irvine CA. (Does this sound familiar? Like finding a DS surgeon 10 years ago?) If my husband is a candidate for this, he should be able to get it done, even in view of the piddly payment insurance will give, if any - and besides, it will still fall under our out-of-network deductible. In reading the guys website (http://vitreousfloatersolutions.com/), my situation is too new to consider treating it yet, until I've given it a chance to resolve.
This damned thing looks like there is a big black spider moving in front of my face, just to the right of my eye. I'm going to hurt myself jumping away from it!
