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Your eye cleared so quick! I’m 14 days post op and I’m looking like your day 6

This video is my comfort vlog - I think I’ve watched it about 5 times 💕

I had the Scleral buckle surgery 3 years ago at 68 years old. I had 20/20 vision still...so I was very concerned. I also had the silicone oil. The surgery was not painful at all, nor was the recovery...except having to keep my head down for the first 7 days. That sucked. Six months later the oil had to be removed. That was considered somewhat risky...because the inside fof the eyeball needs to be rinsed. Afterwards, retina surgery often causes cataracts...clouding of the lense. I had cataract surgery as a follow up procedure (easy peasy to say the least). Three years later I have 02/20 vision...except I still have some distortion, crystal clear but wavy lines in the repaired eye. Scar tissue on my macula is the reason according to my surgeon. Not sure that will ever be remedied. Glad to have my vision though.

I also had the surgery. I had a torn retina and had emergency surgery about 3 weeks ago. I'm getting better. They say it should take 10 to 12 weeks.

I have same thing . I need to talk with you please .

Great video! Well done, you are so brave at such a young age. I went through the whole thing ( not a pleasant experience) a few monhs ago and it went very well due to a great surgeon in Edinburgh. You are so right that never take your eyesight for granted and really carefully think about wearing contact lenses. Mine was due to old age but you are so yound and I wish you well for the future. Best wishes

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I am seeing wavy vision is any had any idea about it

Thank you for sharing this experience. I have lattice degeneration in both of my eyes because I'm also highly myopic and thankfully I went to the ophthalmologist and they caught it so I got laser on both of my eyes to keep the retina from detaching. But I feel like I'm always going to be afraid of it snapping or something

Hi just had the op 11 7 2024.gas bubble going down now .getting there.thanks for your help you look amazing now.❤

Was anybody's retinal tear on the lower part of the eye? My daughters is there and I'm just curious

Whew- I guess so far I've been lucky. Surgery yesterday with the buckle and the gas bubble. Today after the surgery, the patch came off and there's very little to no pain at all. Not taking anything for pain either. I was half blind in my left eye from the sudden detachment. It's very blurry today and can only make out some fuzzy shapes kinda like when you open your eyes under water without goggles. PS- I love your long full blond hair.

Thank you for posting the video…one year out how is your vision? What are you doing for precautionary measures for your other eye? I am 5 days post op scleral buckle and silicone oil. Both of your videos were very helpful.

Please give us another update. I've just had a scleral buckle procedure completed, with cryo + SF6 gas bubble. My surgeons were world-class, and prognosis was completely successful. Recovery has been very good, actually faster than anticipated. I cannot thank my doctors enough!

I am glad you are recovering and have regained your eyesight. I went through similar experience. On Black Friday of 2022 I woke up with floaters on my right eye; a co-worker had had floaters and was treated with steroids and eye drops. That Sunday I woke up, and could not see out of my right eye. On December 22, 2022 I had eye surgery and had to sleep face down and keep my face down for a week. I had a gas bubble to maintain pressure on retina and it took roughly 3 weeks for it to go away. I immediately development a cataract and had corrective surgery in October of 2023. I currently can see out of my right eye but the vision is a soft focus. I will need some further procedures to try and improve vision; I hope to regain clear vision but I can see. Good luck to you and everyone out there that goes through this experience.

When your distorted vision gone after surgery

A Cricket ball hit on my right eye due to unawareness as other eye working I couldn't understand loss of vison in other eye so it delayed Maximum 4-5 years that eye started squint extropia then we went to a hospital doctors said it is a Rhegmatogenuous Retinal detachment and they did surgery and in the subsequent surgery they also removed silicone oil and catract was formed that surgery also done successfully and Vision restored to 20/100 Recently after 14 years again suddenly vision lost in the right eye due to same Rhegmatogenous Retinal detachment again retina detached so they did surgery and removed silicone oil within 1.5 month I don't know why again retina got detached so again RRD surgery done post this surgery Sudden IOP increase 54mmg and immediately visited Hospital they reduced it immediately and im thinking this iop increase is due silicone oil in the eye In the next visit retina doctor told me my optic nerve is weak and doctor is uncertain till we remove silicone oil she said But im thinking due to silicone oil it temporarily stopped optic nerve function Now vision in that eye is HM+ only After removing silicone oil Can i see improvement in vison? Any possibility for significant improvement??? Any other advancement to restore vison in this cases possiblity or hope of future? Address first question after silicone oil removal vison improvement possiblity as I told I have visited hospital immediately with 24-48 hours as pressure increase and managed IOP I'm using drops also now to control IOP it's under control As retina attached with silicone oil and my restricted to HM+ only I don't know what happened to optic nerve

im 24 as well and had buckle, bubble, and laser done due to how severe the detachment was so im very worried how my recovery is going to be and im glad your recovery has gone well so far

Hi dear I just watched your video it’s very inspiring my sister she did her surgery may 1 for retinal detachment for the right eye 👁️ it’s healing but she worried the size of the eye look smaller do you think it’s gone be normal like you ? Please answer my question she is so nervous

Omg! I had retina detachment in both eyes literally last month and underwent 3 total surgeries. June 28th left eye scleral buckle (emergency surgery) , right eye July 8 (scleral buckle - emergency surgery) and back into my left eye again July 16 for vitrectomy with oil! Now healing, my left eye I can see farther without glasses and my right eye my vision is the same before surgery.. I realized my prescription is different and will likely need to change (also I’m 23!)

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Had sclero buckling 6 years ago and now I am scheduled for cataract surgery on the same eye For reference my age is 39

Hi Lauren, I had a parallel experience. My biggest complaint was that the surgeon was only concerned about the retina staying attached. I had 3 surgeries, the last one 15 months ago and it was a scleral buckle. I had 20/25 prior to the surgery. For many months it was 20/50, then 20/40 and for the last 3-4 months 20/30 which is better than I hoped, as they thought 20/40 may be the best possible. I also seeked a second opinion because I saw waviness instead of straight lines. While the first surgeon was not concerned (again all he cared about being attached), on the first visit to the second surgeon, he told me that I had a wrinkled tissue under the retina which caused the waviness and no amount of drops would take care of it. I needed a surgery, but compared o the previous ones, this was much simpler and I had great results as 2-3 weeks after the surgery , 90% of the waviness was gone. I wish they would have done the scleral buckle after the first detachment, but they seem to do it in steps (not sure if insurance plays a part in it). I don’t know about you, but I literally have PTSD from all the detachments (3 in one and 2 on the other years ago) and I check my vision way too much, I even have a vision chart in my office!. I wish you the best!

OMG thank you for this. I just had surgery 5 days ago and sitting here with the bloodshot eye. Thank you for all this positive feedback. ❤❤

Hi! I just saw ur video on ur retinal detachment surgery and I'm scheduled to get the same surgery on Monday and I was wondering is your eye completely healed now? I'm nervous about getting the surgery since I'm just scared about how the post op is going to be for me and how my eye will be during that time. Would you say your vision is almost normal now?

Thanks for sharing your journey. This is super helpful for anyone going through the same procedure. I’m day three post op and my experience thus far has been identical including initially not being able to open my “good eye”. This is not a fun surgery but knowing what to expect from your experience has definitely helped reduce the stress of recovery. Thank you!

Hi. I had the same surgery as you but I am only 2 weeks post surgery. How long did you sleep on your side? Do you still sleep on your side?

Did you not have to lay face down?

Hi i'm Indian 🇮🇳 I had also a retinal detachment surgery (victractomy) on 15 may 2024 and now im recovering myself , my doctor also gave me a new glasses which is +6.75 ,my left eye filled with silicon oil , hope i get well soon and thank you for sharing your experience, stay safe , thank you 😊

How is your vision right now

Hi I went through same surgery has yours last month 20th may 24 it’s been 6 weeks i’m still seeing blurry vision from my right eye and Double Vision when I try to see with both eyes together did it happened to you as well?

I love your glasses

My daughter is 9years old she had already her surgery last year the vitrectomy Sceleral buckle.. Hoping she can recover

Hello, I have had three surgery. First surgery: gas bubble and next two surgery: silicon oil. At the moment I cannot see nothing

I’m pretty sure you cannot see the ocean from Monteverde. That is Lake Arenal.

What do you do to improve your sight? I did my operation before one week.

Hi. How is your eyes now?

I’ve just had the sclera buckle surgery 5 days ago. Vision is so blurry 😓 which is v upsetting especially that i was seeing prrfectly before the op.only had the very top of my visual field affected so my central vision was absolutely perfect. I got so anxious but thanks for sharing your experience.

Hello well done and nice video same here l have one subretinal fluid .is there any treatment for this fluid to resorbed or it should resorbed spontiously?

I will pray for you 🙏 so everything goes back to where it was. I know what you are going through living hard life because i have -14 , last time when i had -7 was 15 years ago. Yesterday doctor lasered my left eye due to tear in my retina and i have to wait a week to see how its progressing ... he also said that in worst case scenario we would have to do scleral buckle like yours to prevent from detachment. You are such a beautiful young girl who got whole life to live , i wish you all the best and shut out to your boyfriend, he is amazing person who stayed with you during surgery period and took care of you 🙏🙏🙏

I had my surgery at 22. It’s been almost a year since my surgery and since then it has been hard. I had a retinal detachment in my right eye and lattice deterioration in my left die so it took about eight months for me to even be able to drive again, and I was working for myself owning my own business, so that really put stress on me. I’ve always had issues with my eyes since I was born, but never in 1 million years what I think my very first surgery would be something as terrifying as an eye surgery. And just as you stated, my eyes still isn’t back to their original vision, it was at, but it will slowly get there.

ONG your story is the same as mine this Sunday will be be 11 months since surgery. Do you still have fluid in your eye? I can still see mine often on. I just can’t wait till the eye absorbs all the fluid.

I had surgery for a detached retna in Feb of 2023 it was a experience to say the least I still see gas bubbles

This is the best video I've seen on the post-op experience with the scleral buckle. I had surgery about 8 days ago and I have referred back to this video multiple times. So far my post op experience has been very similar. Thanks so much for making and sharing this video!

Day 8...for me Thanks for your video

Thank you so much for sharing. Used to be very nearsighted, has lasik, and then now have some floaters..and arcs of light…I am waiting to see a retina specialist at the moment. You are so brave! Thank you for being so brave about it!! How are you doing now?

Wish you guys enjoy it this year!

I'm so nervous, and I don't know what to expect. My Surgery is on June 3rd...I have a 38-year-old daughter looking at a TH-cam video and will need help. Well, pray for me, and I hope I get my eyesight back. I would also like to say thanks for the video...

Outstanding! The best, thank you.

Hi Lauren! Hope you are doing well. I also had my scleral buckle surgery 10 days ago and the vision is still as it was before surgery. I have a dark shadow in the centre of my vision and when my left eye is closed I cannot see and identify things with my operated eye. Today at 10th day I visited my doc again and he said retina is attached and vision will come soon. However I feel scared because I feel that my sight has kind of worsened than what it was before surgery. Did this happen with you too?