I hope no one has ever experienced these, but if you did, maybe you can help

no one has said anything to me about a corneal transplant. argh

corneal epithelial basement membrane disease almost NEVER requires a corneal transplant. generally medical treatment is enough. occasionally the cornea needs to be “scraped” a painless in-office procedure, or a laser application.

thats why no one mentioned it to you.

THANK YOU, MOD-80!! whew!!

popa~ I thought conjunctivitis is so common; also had it several times… just didn’t mention it.

I think it is pretty common also.

You can ask whatever you want. I don’t promise to tell the truth. (always might though)

I had a retinal tear. Do I qualify for anything?

my answers are the same as popa’s except:

treatment: antibiotic eye drops.

and for symptoms you can add crusted together eyelids.

the cause of my immediate family members getting it also was probably contagion.. like from shared towels, physical contact (touch).

keeping busy, I had a cataract removed about 6 years ago. If you have any questions, fire away.

Always here: Cataract removal is not a difficult or lemgthy procedure. My husband had a large cataract removed and the vision is fantastic now, B”H. Recovery was immediate. He also previously had retinal tears, but not detachment. Both surgeries were done a year apart (the retinal tears were repaired with cryosurgery, and last year he had laser for the cataract). DON’T put it off, if your vision is affected. Just make sure you have a skilled opthalmic surgeon.

I’ve had uveitis. I’d be happy to help you out!

Ooh Ooh Ooh -(rt. hand raised) -I’ve also had conjunctivitis several times!

now that we are on the subject..

A family member of mine burnt her cornea when she was quite young.

Now that she is in her 20’s it was suggested she has a cornea transplant.

If someone can tell me healing time.. and if one needs to be on steroids,, for how long etc.

and anything else she should know about a cornea transplant.

Thank you all.

My husband had cataracts on both eyes, a few years apart.

and B-H had minimal recovery time and sees clearly.

At this time my father is being treated for macular degeneration.

He goes every few weeks to the retia specialist and when he sees progression my father gets an injection in the eye. I dont know the drug he is getting.

KB, my cataract experience was very different from most people’s. Firstly, I had not noticed any change in my vision and only required the surgery on one eye. At my yearly exam, the doctor said that I was developing a cataract. The following year she told me it was ready to be removed. I had it done a couple of weeks later and had a soft lens implanted. For the next couple of days my vision was very “crisp” and I didn’t need to use my “over the counter” reading glasses, but within a week or so, I needed them again. I was told that was very normal although my friend had both eyes done a few weeks apart and no longer needs her bifocals at all. She wears a very weak OTC reader. About a year ago, I was told that I am developing a “secondary” cataract on the operative eye and am developing a cataract on the unoperated eye. I am told that the secondary cataract is treated by a zap from a laser right in the office. A couple of weeks ago I was told that I can have the unoperated eye done whenever I feel it is the right time. I suppose that one of these days I shall do it – in the spring, after my trip to Israel (insurance reasons). I am beginning to notice that small print is little more difficult to read these days and I use the strongest OTC lenses that I can find – 3.50. I don’t feel like paying for prescription glasses before I discuss the option of having a “reading” lens implanted at the time of the surgery. This is a fairly new development (within the past 8 -10 years) and only became available in Canada a short time after my original cataract surgery. I had no post-op problems with the first surgery. I hope that I have given you enough information for your project. I forgot to mention that the doctor told me the reason that I developed only one cataract (and at a relatively young age – 60) was because I had been on a high dose of prednisone for quite some time, followed by a low dose for about a year to treat an autoimmune disease. This was about 4 year before developing the cataract. Apparently, prednison can cause an earlier onset of cataracts.

a corrected or uncorrected strabismus

Had surgery as a child years ago, but was only partially successful So I guess you could call it both corrected and uncorrected.

Can’t answer much about the surgery since it was way back then.

I believe current surgery is more precise.

THis may not be what you are looking for, but one of my eyes turns out. I wear glasses for myopia but nothing to correct the other condition except force of will. As I get older it is harder for me to keep my eyes focused together when I read (which is often) and sometimes I have to close one eye or it is just too distracting. I have not yet been prescribed bifocals,though.

On the plus side, I can see double whenever I want to, and make faces at my kids that they (b”H) can’t duplicate.

in reference to my husbands cataract -as mentiond above- he was also quite young for a cataract and there is no known reason for this.

I also have a cousin who had a cataract removed at quite a young age- in her 30’s.

my mother has that floating eye as well.

nothing being done about it. it usually happens in the evening when she is tired

My retina tore about two years ago. I have a family history of this sort of eye trouble, plus I am very nearsighted and middle-aged.

I woke up one morning, went outside and had thousands of new round floaters in my eye. It was like living in a snow globe.

My mother had a tear and detachment 35 years earlier and she had been preparing me for this to happen. Within a few hours I saw an opthalmologist who sent me immediately to an eye surgeon, since it was a large double rip. Within an hour, the surgeon, with the help of a small laser had scarred the area around the tear, so it would refasten itself to the back of my eye.

In another day the rip would have progressed to a full detachment, and shortly thereafter i would have irreparably lost vision in that eye.

For a few weeks the images from that eye were not as vivid as from the untreated eye. I have lots of new, large floaters in that eye, but I have gotten used to them and rarely notice.

With contact lenses, which I have worn for 40 years (I do take them out at night) I see very close to perfectly.

The whole ordeal only took 2 hours, and there was no recovery time needed.

I am very lucky and grateful. I am thankful for my excellent vision.

I will contrast this with my mother’s experience 35 years earlier soon.

When I was a teenager, I also had a lazy eye that would wander.

One doctor suggested surgery but my mother sought a second opinion. We left the eye alone and now it only wanders when I am very tired or when I look in the mirror. Now and then, I use it to entertain or scare small children but otherwise I do not think about it.