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rscWell, that was a scare I didn't need. (Spoiler: it's OK.)
Sometime last week I started to notice a fair number of little black floaters in my left eye, Since it was similar floaters that had led to the torn-retina diagnosis, this made me nervous, so I called Mass Eye & Ear to find out if I should be concerned, and they said yes, definitely, and I should see someone right away. I immediately began thinking that the repair had failed and I was going to have to go through the whole surgery/facedown/bubble sequence yet again, which I found very upsetting.
After a bunch of phone calls with both Mass Eye & Ear and my HMO's visual department, I got to see an ophthalmologist (not one of the many others I've seen in recent years) the next morning, and he said... that everything looked OK; there's always some inflammation and "debris" after such a procedure that can cause floaters, but that I had been right to come in because it's impossible for the patient to distinguish between that situation and a real problem.
I was so relieved I almost broke down and cried right there in his office.
The bubble is still there, but it's pretty small (I assume it's still shrinking, although I can't really tell), and it's pretty clear that the prescription for the left eye is not strong enough, so I'll probably need to get another pair of glasses sometime in February, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Sometime last week I started to notice a fair number of little black floaters in my left eye, Since it was similar floaters that had led to the torn-retina diagnosis, this made me nervous, so I called Mass Eye & Ear to find out if I should be concerned, and they said yes, definitely, and I should see someone right away. I immediately began thinking that the repair had failed and I was going to have to go through the whole surgery/facedown/bubble sequence yet again, which I found very upsetting.
After a bunch of phone calls with both Mass Eye & Ear and my HMO's visual department, I got to see an ophthalmologist (not one of the many others I've seen in recent years) the next morning, and he said... that everything looked OK; there's always some inflammation and "debris" after such a procedure that can cause floaters, but that I had been right to come in because it's impossible for the patient to distinguish between that situation and a real problem.
I was so relieved I almost broke down and cried right there in his office.
The bubble is still there, but it's pretty small (I assume it's still shrinking, although I can't really tell), and it's pretty clear that the prescription for the left eye is not strong enough, so I'll probably need to get another pair of glasses sometime in February, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Date: 2024-01-23 03:38 pm (UTC)