Retina separation - anyone had it?

My mom inlaw had this procedure 2 weeks ago for the second time.

This time they filled it with oil so that it last longer.
 
The_Hobbit said:
Title should read retina detachment.

It started with a floater or two last year and this year (last week) I started seeing weird bubbles and shadows in my right eye so I went back to the opthalmologist. This was Thurs morning at 9:30. He took one look and said he needs to operate later in the day so I was in theatre by 3:30pm. Home by 7pm with the op taking an hour and a half or thereabouts.
Apparently he has to peel the retina off the eyeball and reseat it after draining fluid and finding / 'spot welding' the leak source. They then pump gas into the eyeball chamber after draining the fluid and I have to sit face down /sleep face down while it heals with the first four days being critical. The gas keeps the retina plastered at the back of the eyeball while it heals and the fluid replaces the gas over the next week or two.
Talk about taking things for granted. It's like sleeping on the plane and and I'm not good at that lol.

Anyway, I'm amazed at how anaesthesia has moved on since the 80s. I was gone in seconds after the drip was connected and O2 administered. Next thing I know they're waking me with air in the theatre and in a bit groggy but lucid. No side effects or nausea like I remember but a bad case of gyppos all afternoon and night yesterday. Smecta helping today. I'm not sure if that was the hospital food before I was discharged (same day) or the anaesthesia.

Anyway, home again and pushing through the next few days with head down... Not fun but necessary. Shoulders are complaining.
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Sorry to hear man. That truly sucks. Not a nice thing to happen.
If it's any consolation, I had a tracheotomy in 2016. I've got the mark/wound up to today.
It healed without any pain or complications though.
I just did as instructed and was careful with it. So just be chill, calm and do what they advised.
Don't forget to eat, look after yourself.
Edit: (leave the phone, mybb, tech for a few days. Let your eyes rest).
 
Wow sounds hectic.

Not similar, but my mom has glaucoma. They installed a little pipe in each eye while she was semi-awake. The total procedure probably took 30 minutes. R60-70 000 later.

I'm just amazed at what these doctors can do.
 
The_Hobbit said:
Title should read retina detachment.

It started with a floater or two last year and this year (last week) I started seeing weird bubbles and shadows in my right eye so I went back to the opthalmologist. This was Thurs morning at 9:30. He took one look and said he needs to operate later in the day so I was in theatre by 3:30pm. Home by 7pm with the op taking an hour and a half or thereabouts.
Apparently he has to peel the retina off the eyeball and reseat it after draining fluid and finding / 'spot welding' the leak source. They then pump gas into the eyeball chamber after draining the fluid and I have to sit face down /sleep face down while it heals with the first four days being critical. The gas keeps the retina plastered at the back of the eyeball while it heals and the fluid replaces the gas over the next week or two.
Talk about taking things for granted. It's like sleeping on the plane and and I'm not good at that lol.

Anyway, I'm amazed at how anaesthesia has moved on since the 80s. I was gone in seconds after the drip was connected and O2 administered. Next thing I know they're waking me with air in the theatre and in a bit groggy but lucid. No side effects or nausea like I remember but a bad case of gyppos all afternoon and night yesterday. Smecta helping today. I'm not sure if that was the hospital food before I was discharged (same day) or the anaesthesia.

Anyway, home again and pushing through the next few days with head down... Not fun but necessary. Shoulders are complaining.
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Good luck with your recovery, take it easy. If determined, what is said to be the underlying cause?
 
The_Hobbit said:
That's promising.
Interesting that a sneeze brought it on bit I guess not surprising.
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You have to rest your eyes dear sir..... :)
That said. Interesting about astigmatism. I also suffer from it, since a child (like really young). Eye worms, floaters etc.
My optometrists are adamant that I should wear my glasses, but I hate the damn stuff.
 
Everyones-a-Wally said:
Ja all back to normalish except for the cateract forming on the lens in the affected eye. Apparently it's expected and is a reaction of the eye to the gas that was used in the healing process for the detachment. I'll be back at the specialist in a couple of months and likely have the lens replaced next which is a lot less traumatic.
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can this happen to anyone at any age?
 
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