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Medical Forum / General / Vision / October 2007retinal detachment?
I am a 62 year old woman. Yesterday I noticed some small flashes of light in my left eye. It only happened when I moved my eyes to the left and the lights were at the periphery on the left. Later in the day I started to notice floaters that looked like I had hair in front of my eye. Today the light flashes seem to be gone but the floaters are still there. I've done some reading and I was thinking that it's posterior vitreous detachment. I know I should see my eye doctor but I have some other serious and painful conditions that make going to the doctor very miserable. If I call and they "squeeze me in" I may have to wait and I can't bear to think about the pain. I'm only comfortable lying down and there's no place to do that in an eye doctor's office. Believe me I know this is not the place for me to ask for medical advice, but I'm wondering if others of my age have had similar symptoms and what the diagnosis was. I have not noticed any loss of vision at all. thanks. Yes, you should see the doctor right away regardless of other pains and not wait for advice here. Don W. But cannot they come to your house instead of you go to them? > But cannot they come to your house instead of you go to them? You're kidding, right? The day of the house call died long ago. Anyway, I went to the doctor yesterday. He dilated my pupil. He said there was no tear. He said something about a vitreous detachment that comes with age. He noticed a small amount of blood which he said was not unusual but should be checked again next week. He gave me an appointment with a retinal specialist. In the meantime the floaters are driving me crazy. He said they would probably go away with time. I think the most important advice, if you have not received it already, is to avoid very fast head movements. I.e. ones that produce flashes to the retina (= nono). The flashes are the local tugging of the vitreous onto the retina. This traction can produce fragments of the retina that will appear in the visual field as floaters. If you receive an OCT, (optical coherence tomograph) it will show the progress of the detachment (how much to go) and how well the past has been. Not a medical professional, resident doctors may modify what I've said. Good luck. Don W. >In the meantime the floaters are driving me crazy. He said they would >probably go away with time. Floaters are a very curable defect of the eye. I can give you help, but not on here. If I post here the method by which you can be cured; the others will flame me for suggesting it because they disparage of it and name it a quackery; although they will not provide reason for calling it such a name. But if you come onto www.iblindness.org/forum and then register there, I can help you there. My name is Kaze on that forum, you can PM me or post in the public message group. > Floaters are a very curable defect of the eye. I can give you help, > but not on here. If I post here the method by which you can be cured; > the others will flame me for suggesting it because they disparage of > it and name it a quackery; although they will not provide reason for > calling it such a name. In magic, the magician fools you. In magical thinking, you fool yourself. -MT > > Floaters are a very curable defect of the eye. I can give you help, > > but not on here. If I post here the method by which you can be cured; [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > In magic, the magician fools you. In magical thinking, you fool yourself. Actually, floaters are a very curable defect of the eye. You just teach your brain to ignore them, then they don't bother you. I still get floaters in my left eye, even though my doctor said that a side effect of my vitrectomy would be getting rid of floaters. > > But cannot they come to your house instead of you go to them? > > You're kidding, right? The day of the house call died long ago. My doctor made a house call to see me once. I think it was very unusual even then, and that was fifty years ago. Besides, diagnosis of retinal detachment probably takes a thousand pounds of equipment. It won't fit in a black bag. |
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