Well - needing glasses I could deal with. After going from 20/20 vision after cataract surgery 4 years ago, up until last Fall when it started to deteriorate to 20/40 in one eye, and 20/70 in the other at the present time, I resigned myself to the fact that I had to go back to wearing corrective lenses again. So they came in last week. Very pretty if I do say, but one small problem - I can't see out of them!!! The right side is fine (the better eye), but the left is still extremely blurry!!! Thinking that they made that lens wrong, I took them back on Thursday and presented my case. They checked the lens against the script and it was correct, then the tech checked my eyes again and said the strength was written correctly. I was told that since there was such a drastic decline in that eye over such a short period of time, it just might take me longer for me to get adjusted to it, and to give it a week, and if no better, then I was to come back and they would take it from there. I gave it thru Sunday - and that was an effort. They were making me dizzy and queazy and I just couldn't tolerate them, so I was back to the office on Monday. This time the doctor checked my eyes, and she tried every lens possible, and couldn't get me passed a blur in that one eye. So she said I needed to go back to their main office where they have all the latest and greatest in equipment and can do much more extensive testing, and to see the ophthalmologist there that did my surgery. And when she said I needed to get there sooner rather than later, she put a scare into me. She called the office herself and made me an appointment for Wednesday.
So off I went last Wednesday, figuring that I would have an answer that day as to what is going on. Had several more tests including laser photos of the inside of my eye, and it still showed no abnormalities or an explanation as to what's happening. So on the 15th I have to go back for 2 more tests - a field of vision test, and a fluorescein angiography, where they inject a fluorescent dye into a vein in your arm and this travels thru your bloodstream. They shine a dim blue light into your dilated eyes and this dye shows up as a fluorescent green and they can then view the blood vessels behind the retina to see what's going on there. But I still won't know anything that day, because the doctor has to review those results and go over my entire history and put the pieces together. Then I go back a week after that for the results.
It's looking toward the possibility/probability of macular degeneration, but I'm not going to panic before I hear that as a positive diagnosis. If that's what it is, then it's age related, as I do not have high blood sugar. The idea of losing my sight is just not very appealing to me.
So here I go again - appealing to you for those awesome and miracle working PT prayers. If you can spare some, I will be so very grateful.
Thanks friends - and I will keep you updated as I learn more.
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But I can't worry myself about that right now, and I'll cross that bridge if and when I come to it. Right now all I can do is wait for a diagnosis and hope for the best.
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Lilith Cherry
Reading your update on the eye problems, it seems that knowing
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