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Eye Screening

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mikeydt1

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had my first eye screening early this morning, only just able to see what i am doing. the drops do half make you jump when they first put them in, so far no pain or anything else apart from the blurrrrrr.

will come back to this post when i get the results.
 
Fingers crossed your results are ok.

I am impressed you are able to type if you have had the drops.
One, when I think they overdid the drops, it took me more than 4 hours before I could focus on my keyboard.
 
got so used to having problems with blurry vision over the years so just normal for me. did go to hospital but not much came of it back then.

interesting though that the nurse had no issues getting images of the right eye but with the left it took a few attempts so am hoping there is nothing untoward.

right eye felt a bit gritty later on but fine this morning.

don't want any more bad news as i am facing a battle at the moment.
 
The blurriness is irritating but worth it to get these tests done. Mine used to be timed for Dec so my journey home after the test was past endless Christmas lights. Seemed a bit odd wearing my sunglasses but it really helped.

I hope the results are okay.
 
Fingers crossed that you get the all clear @mikeydt1
 
results come through and okay, now just waiting for some other stuff.
 
My eye screening revealed I needed Cataract removed. My vision was blurry in my right eye too so on 7th January I attended the eye clinic at my hospital, was prepped, wheeled in and had my lens removed and a new lens inserted. It took fifteen mins start to finish. I now don’t need glasses
 
I hated it Austin! Not actually bad just not being able to see what they're doing is always offputting to me IYSWIM. I knew I had cataracts in both eyes so hence when opthalmologist 1 asked me straight after he'd finished and I'd sat up, 'Tell me - honestly! - how that actually was, for you?' I said , 'Well, honestly, I thought it was probably the most horrible thing I've ever needed to have to do!' and he took an audible sharp intake of breath when I added, 'but - if you ask me if I'll have the other one done - the truthful answer to that is yes, just tell me when to come and I'll be there!' and laughed.

Second bloke wasn't half as warm friendly - or English - so hadn't been at all as nice, relaxed, chatty and friendly as the first doc and I well recall after a few minutes he was telling me things like 'Not long now, nearly done!' and me thinking 'You bloody liar, bet you haven't even got the old one out yet - let alone put the new one in!' plus he was absolutely drenching me with water constantly so the rivulets of really cold water were running down the side and back of my head constantly, so my hair was literally dripping wet when I came out so the nurse had to find me a towel and I had then to sit in a soaking wet T shirt to have my cuppa post op. Had that been the first one, it might have put me off. Not so brilliant at all.
 
trophywench said:
I hated it Austin! Not actually bad just not being able to see what they're doing is always offputting to me IYSWIM. I knew I had cataracts in both eyes so hence when opthalmologist 1 asked me straight after he'd finished and I'd sat up, 'Tell me - honestly! - how that actually was, for you?' I said , 'Well, honestly, I thought it was probably the most horrible thing I've ever needed to have to do!' and he took an audible sharp intake of breath when I added, 'but - if you ask me if I'll have the other one done - the truthful answer to that is yes, just tell me when to come and I'll be there!' and laughed.

Second bloke wasn't half as warm friendly - or English - so hadn't been at all as nice, relaxed, chatty and friendly as the first doc and I well recall after a few minutes he was telling me things like 'Not long now, nearly done!' and me thinking 'You bloody liar, bet you haven't even got the old one out yet - let alone put the new one in!' plus he was absolutely drenching me with water constantly so the rivulets of really cold water were running down the side and back of my head constantly, so my hair was literally dripping wet when I came out so the nurse had to find me a towel and I had then to sit in a soaking wet T shirt to have my cuppa post op. Had that been the first one, it might have put me off. Not so brilliant at all.
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Oh dear, not like that at all for me didn’t even hurt injecting the anesthetiser then watched the operation being carried out but blurry. Afterwards my eyesight was blurry then after two months sharp as a pin.,Now of course don’t need them. Sorry about your experience though
 
Distance was blurry next day with both but again with both before the post-op eye drop doses were finished, I was OK again apart from needing new glasses for my eyesight generally.

Utterly and completely painless as you say, no injections other than directly into the site, which i couldn't see cos at my hospital they cover the other side of your face.

Been perfectly happy with em!
 
My first cataract crept up on me completely by surprise & never noticed it until it had completely whitened out! Just woke up one day to a blanket white in my right eye & it happened 6 months after I’d had my eye screening: I was going through a patch of battling high blood sugars & that sped up the cataract! Had the op to remove 6 weeks later, fast tracked, & it had gotten SO thick the surgeon had to cut deeper than expected, ended up with a capillary tear in the whites of my eye that took longer to heal & left me with the complication of ghosting in that eye. Given that complication it was decided to do my left earlier & as soon as I was fully healed in my right eye a year & a half later I got my left done by another surgeon that was a specialist in the narrower Oriental eyes that exacerbates problems with eye pressure etc.

I couldn’t see a thing due to the thickness of the cataract during the first op but, saw lovely patterns of concentric rings of light during my second op! But, the shock both times made me shake like a leaf afterwards: my whole arm was shaking, as was my whole body, while eating toast & had to get my sister, who came with me, to hold my tea cup for me to drink! At one point during the second op I was shaking so much, because of the complications of the first, the surgeon asked “Can someone please hold the patient’s hand?” & that helped as I didn’t even realise I was shaking; a human touch really makes a difference!
 
Lanny said:
My first cataract crept up on me completely by surprise & never noticed it until it had completely whitened out! Just woke up one day to a blanket white in my right eye & it happened 6 months after I’d had my eye screening: I was going through a patch of battling high blood sugars & that sped up the cataract! Had the op to remove 6 weeks later, fast tracked, & it had gotten SO thick the surgeon had to cut deeper than expected, ended up with a capillary tear in the whites of my eye that took longer to heal & left me with the complication of ghosting in that eye. Given that complication it was decided to do my left earlier & as soon as I was fully healed in my right eye a year & a half later I got my left done by another surgeon that was a specialist in the narrower Oriental eyes that exacerbates problems with eye pressure etc.

I couldn’t see a thing due to the thickness of the cataract during the first op but, saw lovely patterns of concentric rings of light during my second op! But, the shock both times made me shake like a leaf afterwards: my whole arm was shaking, as was my whole body, while eating toast & had to get my sister, who came with me, to hold my tea cup for me to drink! At one point during the second op I was shaking so much, because of the complications of the first, the surgeon asked “Can someone please hold the patient’s hand?” & that helped as I didn’t even realise I was shaking; a human touch really makes a difference!
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Wow poor you must have been so frightening but glad it all turned out well for you.
 
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