If you’ve ever had eye issues, you’ve had ‘floaters’… those odd ‘bits’ that float across your vision at the worst possible time. Yesterday afternoon, I had YAG laser capsulotomy on my left eye to fix the secondary issues after cataract surgery.
So not only were both eyes dilated, they shot the left eye with the laser and broke up the capsule leading to multiple floaters! And it’s irritating as hell to try to do anything requiring concentrating on anything ‘visual’.
So you get a meme…
IYKYK…
Sir , You are having a heck of a week or so , your back and now laser to the eyeball . You seem to be dealing well and I am happy to hear that . Take care please .
I know all about those floaters, but since my cataract surgery, they seem to be a thing of the past.
I had my yearly diabetic eye exam at the end of June. Minor case of possible future cataracts but for now, I’m okay.
Yes, I occasionally see a clear filament of material follow my view but nothing that obscures my vision – at least not yet.
It’s time to play “Where’s Simo?”
Dr. B prescribes Bourbon to deal with those floaters:
C2HOHh will help deal with the symptoms. Dose as needed.
Follow up with me after a week.
May impair your ability to operate heavy equipment and motor vehicles.
I get them once in a while.
I now know that cataract surgery isn’t the same as Cataphract surgery. Life is just full of interesting lessons.
Due to dry eye issues, I had to have both corneas resurfaced last year.
Not cataract surgery, nor any type of implant.
The dryness had caused both corneas to become rough and fissured.
The fix was to abrade the entire surface of the cornea away, and that forces the cornea to regrown a nice smooth surface “..like a billiard ball.”
My overly active imagination had supplied several headlines to me.
(you will have to supply your own teletype sounds)
News flash! A Philadelphia man had his entire head vaporized today when a surgical laser malfunctioned. Film at 11!
In the non imagination world, I simply waited for the drops to numb the eye, put my chin into the device, and then sort of watched the blurry image of him using a surgical Dremel tool to grind away the surface of the cornea.
I was amazed both at the process, and even more amazed that I got into the chair and went through the procedure without needing Depends, or shrieking like a little girl.
I was pretty much back to normal in a week, there was more discomfort than pain, and I gained a line of better vision on the eye test on the left eye, and two lines on the right eye.
Good luck and hoping all turns out well.
Eye eye!
Regarding the meme, a little ditty ran thru my head – “Hayha, Hayha, it’s off to work we go…”
As for floaters, they are annoying – my biggest one seems to find the middle of my visual field just as I get my reticle on target, causing me to look away, look back then take a shot before the floater returns to blur things a bit again.
Floaters come from the back side of the eye (retina). Cataracts hide them as they just blend in with the cloudy lens. So now you can see them clearly. They are very annoying but not much can be done. Things they never told you about old age.
Yeah. Civvy got the cataracts and VA got the floaters. Three years later I’m finger-stomping ants on the kitchen counter. Finally realized they were floaters again and not ants. Some battles really aren’t battles.
Financial note: VA floater killing is cheaper than an exterminator.
same thing here. I told my eye doctor I was seeing mice and roaches out of the corner of my eye all the time. She was amused.
Bummer
Most of those clear pretty fast.
I had a retina procedure, and the doc thought it would be OK if I kept taking warfarin. The resulting bleeding made a spiderweb floater that took a couple weeks to clear. That eye got the laser treatment; those floaters also took a couple of weeks.
The senior doc did the other eye and cut out the cloudy membrane along with the retina work. No floaters, though there were other festivities. Protip: if you get a gas bubble as part of an eye procedure, be very careful with altitude changes. I had to go from 1200′ over a 5100′ pass, and temporary (15 minutes) blindness hit me. A California practice says to stay below 1500′ above the clinic. There was some lasting damage to the nerve that controls the pupil; largely healed, but it took a few years.
All- Thanks for your comments, and yes they’ve cleared now.
Floaters……GACK! I didn’t know how bad mine had gotten until I had both cataracts corrected. Sure messed up my airplane spotting and bird watching!
drjim- Yeah!