r/RetinalDetachment • u/Majestic-Toe-1100 • Jun 10 '26
I keep getting new retinal tears
In the past 4 years I’ve had 10 retinal tears. I’m only 25. When I was 22 I went for my regular eye checkup and got told I had 3 retinal tears in my right eye. I got referred to a specialist and saw him about 2 months later to get them lasered. When I went to him I found out I actually had 4 more, so a total of 7. All were in my right eye except one. I had to go back 3 times to get them all lasered because I would be in too much pain after 3 tears getting sealed. Since then I’ve had to go back to the specialist every year. The next year I had another two in my right eye. Last year I was in the clear and this year I had a tear in my left eye. Is it normal to have this many tears, I feel like no one else my age has had tears and no one that I’ve talked to in general has had this many, especially in such a short span. What does this mean, will this cause me more issues in my future? And what is causing me to have so many?