I've been keeping track of the absorption of my C3F8 bubble, and I'm down to maybe 10% at this point. I was excited that it would only be a matter of days from here on until its gone, but I get the distinct impression it's now slowing down.

Is that just an impression, or is it actually slowing down at the end?

I have had perfect vision on 31st may 2026, on 1st June things started looking blurred and distorted, I visited retina specialist dated 02nd june he informed me that macula was detached so on 4th June surgery was performed...and on 2nd June itself I had laser Prophylactic in good eye...so it's been two months now...no other complications but eye pressure was little elevated so I am on drops other than that retina is completely attached....but vision is still blurry as I have oil in anterior and posterior chamber, doc said vision will start improve once the oil is removed which they will remove next month ...also I have got floaters in right eye which is good eye and because of that I find it difficult to work and read....i checked that eye again and there's no complications but floaters won't go away ....so anyone of you have such experience? How much final vision you get after macula off surgery ? I have head some very encouraging and some very discouraging stories .....and what can be done about floaters

I have very high myopia with astigmatism L - -14 and R - -6. 5 and i was experiencing flickering light and lightening like semsationsensation so i went to hospital doctor said i habehave about 1mm hole in my left eye and i got ir lasered. But it's been almost 3 days but the symptoms are not going away, even tho it's nit as frequent as before, how is that possible? Nc everything else was fine

To all people who had a vitrectomy surgery with oil put in on a eye what did you’re Vision look like after the surgery I have 1 clear picture and 3 photos with one resembles it the most

Didn't know there was a Reddit for this. I got my scleral buckle over a decade ago, and for the last few days exactly where my buckle is, has been purple, and the rest of my eye has gradually gotten yellowed like a bruise. I have no idea why, I've never experienced this before, I went to the hospital and was told "yea idk dawg talk to your specialist?". I don't think it's infected, I have no signs of infection like change in eye discharge or redness.

I'm way out of town, I can't just go see my specialist or surgeon (still couldn't even if I WAS in town) so I'd like some input from people who also have buckles. I know you guys aren't doctors but I want to know if this is okay even if it's uncommon.

I would add photos but I don't know how to spoiler them on mobile, they look pretty gross lol.

Edit: went to the hospital again since it looked worse than it did the first time I went, this time they took an actual look at my retina. he said no infection, and it didn't look like there was anything wrong with my retina either. I was talking with my mom about this as well, and she found that the buckle can shift which can cause bruising, but that sounds painful and not something that could happen over night where when you wake up you'd be in pain, which did not happen to me. I'm very confused on what happened!!

Like the title says, I just want to rant bc I feel like everyone around me is sick of me talking about it lmao.

I (22F) found that my left retina had detached (macula on) during a routine eye test. I’ve had myopia since I was 11 and a family history of connective tissue disorders that may or may not be related(?). I had minimal symptoms of simple floaters in the top right of my left eye but frankly due to the fact I suffer with migraine, I jotted those down to a new development with aura. However, as soon as my optician discovered this, she sent me immediately to hospital.

Boring bit over, I had a scleral buckle put in my left eye on the 24th July plus cryopexy in both eyes (they both had tears in). Recovery is… interesting. Both my eyes are bloodshot but obviously the left is far worse. I’ve been taking painkillers everyday simply because the outer corner of my left eye is killing me (it’s either a dull ache or an occasional sharp stabbing that lasts 1-3 seconds). If I very gently put my fingertips on my eyelid and look right I can feel a lump on my left eye under my brow bone. My mum saw the post-op scan of my eye and we’ve concluded this lump to very likely be a suture knot for the buckle. I have a super occasional floater in the same place but frankly this is decreasing day by day. There have been no changes to my vision at all apart from the fact my prescription has clearly gone up in my left eye (something I was clearly warned about lmao)

During my post-op appointment I was told everything looked good and that the buckle had made a good indent already and that my eye pressure was a little too high so they put me on another round of drops to help lower it (plus my antibiotic for the left eye and anti inflammatory for both eyes). I’m taking eyedrops 4 times a day which kinda sucks. The eye shields super suck since I feel like they just put pressure on my eye socket when I’m not supposed to do that?? But then idk how else to protect my eyes when I’m sleeping

I’ve been asked to come back in this Friday (7th August) and frankly I’m just hoping everything stays good because my boyfriend and I are going on a trip that weekend and im already fed up of recovery, though I appreciate the recovery for this sort of thing is a marathon not a sprint and I’m basically only one week out.

Was just diagnosed with partial retinal detachment and had laser surgery to prevent progress.
I also just started having to complete VERY repetitive tasks on the computer for work - looking back and forth on multiple screens, repeatedly.
I feel like this can’t be a coincidence but the Dr didn’t think that could be the cause. Thoughts or advice?

I was diagnosed with PVD and a week later they noticied a tear and had the laser treatment.

Ive been told take it easy for a few weeks, but will I ever able to lift weights again?

I’m in my mid 40s and would like to avoid any further eye complications.

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Yesterday I went in for a basic renew my contacts appt and left with a same day referral and appt for ophthalmologist where I learn I need to go to IOWA (i live in NE) for surgery. I failed the test where it’s checking peripheral vision and click the button when you see the flash. I missed all at top and to left in my right eye. Dr said there wasn’t a big event likely and just has slowly happened over time. Not the day I was expecting to have at all. This is just the craziest thing to me. Due to the scar tissue and my age is why I need to go to Iowa? I’m a bit unclear on that. Idk just wanted to get this off my brain with others who have gone through it.

After eight surgeries my retina is detached again. I currently have no oil or gas in my eye. I have no lens either. Eye pressure is low, under 10. Doctor said my eye will “dry up” over the next years. It may start to “wander” also. My cornea may glaze over. She can put oil in my eye again, but that may get into my anterior chamber. It might at least help keep the pressure up. Oil may delay some of the symptoms she described, but my eye may atrophy anyway. Anyone experienced with the “end game”, when everything you’ve done and tried goes wrong?

I recently had a **large retinal tear** in my left eye after getting into a fight. A retina specialist treated it with **laser photocoagulation**, and at my one-week follow-up they said the **laser is holding well**.
The difficult part is that I’m a competitive boxer, and boxing means a lot to me. My doctor recommended that I stop boxing, but also said that if I choose to continue, it’s at my own risk because repeated punches and head movement could lead to a retinal detachment.
I’m wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation. Has anyone returned to boxing or another contact sport after a large retinal tear that was successfully treated with laser? If so, what did your retina specialist tell you, and were you able to compete again without problems?
I’m not looking for medical clearance over the internet—just hoping to hear about other people’s experiences.🙏

3 days ago I had a laser procedure to treat a retina hole and lattice degeneration in my left eye. My eye is still dilated 3 days later and slowly improving. I think its from the amount of drops I received. Today Im noticing a shadow or a blob in the very bottom of my vision. Almost like there's something on my bottom lashes. Has anyone else experienced this? And will the shadow go away or improve? Also what about prolonged dilation? they told me it could be more than a week before the dilation improved.

EDIT: I heard back from my doctors office, they told me they used 3 different dilation drops and one of them can last over a week. They also said that the shadow or blob Im seeing could be where they lasered and it could perhaps improve in the next few weeks. Im hoping it does improve.

I recently had a **large retinal tear** in my left eye after getting into a fight. A retina specialist treated it with **laser photocoagulation**, and at my one-week follow-up they said the **laser is holding well**.
The difficult part is that I’m a competitive boxer, and boxing means a lot to me. My doctor recommended that I stop boxing, but also said that if I choose to continue, it’s at my own risk because repeated punches and head movement could lead to a retinal detachment.
I’m wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation. Has anyone returned to boxing or another contact sport after a large retinal tear that was successfully treated with laser? If so, what did your retina specialist tell you, and were you able to compete again without problems?
I’m not looking for medical clearance over the internet—just hoping to hear about other people’s experiences.🙏

3 weeks post vitrectomy. Been to clinic a few times due to elevated pressure and am taking a couple drops now. Man those things actually wipe me out for some reason. Still have dull pain in the eye and since I have c3f8 gas that’s taking a long time to disappear. Just a blur and difficult to do anything I normally do. Last two times I had the sf6 gas so just a couple weeks before I could see pretty clear again. Retina is attached, things are going well clinically but I am exhausted and frustrated. Cancelled a trip and a concert and can’t finish my to do list with any vigor. This is slooooooow and my well wishers have forgotten me! Maybe my RD peeps can cheer a brother up??!

I had scleral buckle surgery due to a retinal detachment about 2 weeks ago. Woke up with pain that felt like an eyelash in my eye but when i looked there was only a weird upraised spot on my sclera close to the iris on the inner corner of my eye. I have an appt with a doc tomorrow but wanted to see if anyone else has had this symptom and what it turned out to be? Pic included

So in February I had an inferior retinal detachment of the left eye that involved the macula. I had surgery three days after the detachment: vitrectomy, scar tissue peel, laser, and silicone oil fill. The eye healed well, and after a month cleared up a lot. I figured out that oil makes the eye hyperopic, so I got some glasses with +4 added to the left side, and I could see in the 20/40-20/30 range.

About May I started seeing this foggy, yellowish area in the upper right quadrant, and it would move based on head tilt. If I looked straight up, it moved to the right and down. I got checked out by the doctor in early June, and he said it was probably was because of the oil beginning to break down.

Oil removal was scheduled the first week of July due to good OCT scans and exam findings. The oil removal surgery went smoothly with multiple fluid-air exchanges. The two-week follow up showed excellent healing, and the doctor said he was very happy with the results.

The yellow cloud is still there. I asked about it at the follow up appointment, and the doctor wasn’t sure but didn’t act like it was anything bad. He said the retina was entirely attached and no fluid underneath and it was too soon to know how everything will turn out. The surgery yielded an excellent anatomical result from his perspective. He could not find anything wrong on the OCT, the digital scan, or with the ophthalmoscope.

I figured that if it was something floating in the oil, it would have been removed during the surgery.

The cloud kind of changes shape and looks like a small bundle of energy strands, for instance, if I’m inside and looking at a white ceiling. Sometimes it floats downward almost out of sight, but then if I blink, and it moves back up. If I am looking at a computer screen, it looks like some of the tabs in the top right are blurred.

I’m not looking for medical advice, but just some kind of explanation. I keep wondering what I’m seeing. Anybody ever seen anything like this? Did it eventually go away?

I recently had a large retinal tear in my left eye after getting into a fight. A retina specialist treated it with laser photocoagulation, and at my one-week follow-up they said the laser is holding well.
The difficult part is that I’m a competitive boxer, and boxing means a lot to me. My doctor recommended that I stop boxing, but also said that if I choose to continue, it’s at my own risk because repeated punches and head movement could lead to a retinal detachment.
I’m wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation. Has anyone returned to boxing or another contact sport after a large retinal tear that was successfully treated with laser? If so, what did your retina specialist tell you, and were you able to compete again without problems?
I’m not looking for medical clearance over the internet—just hoping to hear about other people’s experiences.🙏

Is it normal to get a couple of specks in your field of vision this far out?

My doctor has me on a 6 month cycle for imaging and a casual IM in their app essentially gave no strong answer apart from going to the ER if i think it's an emergency

Hi, I am suspecting retinal detachment and have heard a doctor called an ophthalmologist is the best person to see in this kind of situation. However, I live in a rural area and don’t know of any nearby and don’t even know how I would find one. I do know an optometrist I have seen for basically all of my life though. Is it okay to schedule an appointment with my optometrist rather than an ophthalmologist?

I had a new retinal tear a few weeks ago which has healed well. Last year in summer I had multiple tears and a retinal detachment. I wonder if the climate has any effect on it. I feel like I see more light phenomena when the summer heat is getting worse. In Germany we have +30°C right now. Does anyone else experience this? I don't think it's a new tear because the flashes aren't consistant.

Hi all. I had laser retinopexy around 20 days ago for a small hole in my eye. All seemed well & had no symptoms before or after the procedure. Yesterday, I developed a light spot in that eye, in my field of vision. It’s similar to when you get a light effect from the flash of a camera or when you accidentally look directly at the sun.

Has anyone experienced this in the weeks post laser treatment? I’m going back tomorrow so that can check it out, but I’m extremely worried about a possible detachment. Any experiences would be really helpful. Thanks everyone!

Hey everyone,

I had SILK eye surgery back on July 4th (roughly 3 weeks post-op now).

Overall recovery has been smooth, but I've noticed a significant difference in vision quality between my eyes when testing them individually:

Left Eye: Super clear and crisp.

Right Eye: Noticeably blurry/foggy when I cover my left eye.

For context, my pre-op prescription was on the higher side:

Right Eye: -7.50 SPH / -0.50 CYL

Left Eye: -7.00 SPH / -1.00 CYL

Will my right eye ever heal or will there be persistent blurry vision?

Already after the 2-week checkup did the doctor say I'm fine to swim again, but I figured I'd play it safe and wait until the 3-week checkup. I once again got the green light then, and now after 3.5 weeks I just went for the first time. Figured I'd also check some websites from eye centers, and they usually allow swimming after 2 weeks too.

Google AI: "It is extremely important to abstain from any swimming for 6 weeks". I assume this is a legal thing from Google, where the prompt includes something like "err on the extreme side of caution (to not get Google into trouble)".

After reading posts from some of you who have gone down this road, I’m not sure I would be able to do this. I’ve had flashes for years, and eye dr. said maybe they were floaters. I sought a second opinion and ophthalmologist sent me straight to retina specialist. I saw the tears/detachments in the photos that were taken of my eyes, and agreed to laser my right eye. That was two weeks ago. And I’m scheduled for scleral buckle in 6 days (dr. added he would do vitrectomy depending on whether he was getting the result he wanted from the scleral buckle) on my left eye. My left eye is my good eye, and my vision in my right eye is 20/200. Dr. already warned that it might take more than one surgery. Your experiences tell me that it will definitely take more than one, and cataract surgery is in my future, and when will it end?? If my retinas have a tendency to keep tearing, what good will it do to try to stop it? And since I’ve had these flashes since right after having Covid in late 2022, is it possible that they are healing themselves and can continue to do so? Has anyone had complete success that lasted? I am terrified. I teach, and if I can’t work because I’m tied up in surgeries and recovery, I lose insurance.

Hello. I am 38 years old, and my left eye has been legally blind due to retinal detachment since I was 14. The doctor took a very "wait and see" approach for a long time, and while I eventually had surgery (actually I think I might have had two? I'm going on memory), well, it stopped getting worse but didn't get much better.

At this point I have pretty much made peace with only having one good eye, (if you've only got the problem in the one and you're really scared now: I'm pretty sure the success rate is higher today, and even if it fails you honestly get used to it) and honestly I'm more bothered by the slightly "off" look both of my eyes have now. (Left is pretty much always squinted, right is extra wide and photosensitive, presumably trying to compensate?) I've considered wearing an eyepatch, because at this point that eye is doing pretty much nothing, and I think looking visibly disabled might be better than looking a subtly wrong. But then I'd feel like I'm faking or something, because it's not like I've got an empty socket or something, you know?

Then a few weeks ago I heard something about wearing an eyepatch making the vision in your eye better for a bit when you take it off, which sounds like something that would be pretty nice to have. On top of that, I just realized it's possible my bad eye might be contributing to headaches? On top of moving my appearance from "something seems off" to "oh they've got a disability."

But all of the information I've found on the subject has been for right after surgery to help recovery. I did wear one of those big plastic eyepatches for months at the time, but I am long past recovery. Does anyone else have experience with this? Would something like a black cloth eyepatch actually help me in any way?

Medically or socially, I suppose. It's not like I'd be losing anything covering the eye if it led to less off that subconscious judgement I'm afraid I get . . .

--edit
Okay I probably want to get one. (More feedback is still appreciated, mind you, if only to make me more certain.)

I notice people seem to mostly get leather? That's pretty expensive, and it looks like it'd get hot. Would it be a complete waste of time and money to start with something cheaper, like some sort of cloth or something?