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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | The doctor said everything looked great and I am healing nicely. Said the double vision is most likely the brain needs to re-learn how to use both eyes together again. Says there is a 90% chance it will fix itself.
He also said that it is 10 chance that there is a problem with one of the muscles in the eye... said in that case there is still something we can do.... but it means another operation. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,945 |
| | Posted: | | | | Seems things went pretty well, congrats Pete  | | | | www.tvmaze.com |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 681 |
| | Posted: | | | | Congratulations Pete! Hopefully the double vision is indeed something that your brain takes care of in time when it has adjusted itself for this change, and no further surgeries is needed. 3D Movie Marathon pending...  | | | Mika
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| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | Wonderful news, Pete!
Putting prisms in eye glasses can help a great deal with double vision if it does not go away on its own, so you still have options in that regard. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
The human brain is amazingly adaptable; it can even do things like correcting an image to the right way up looking through 'upside down optics' after a few days (then when you take off the optics it's so used to it it keeps on doing it so it turns the world upside down until it corrects again!). I saw an episode of Brain Games (on National Geographic) and they had an episode where they did a test like that. Took a basketball team and had them wear funny goggles that distorted their vision quite a bit. Obviously they not only couldn't make a basket, they were shooting air balls. But after practicing for a while, their brains gradually adjusted until they got back to hitting the basket every time. Then they removed the goggles and once again they were missing the basket, backboard, etc. Couldn't even come close to sinking a ball. It took some practice again for their brains to re-adjust back to normal vision. A few years back my eye doctor told me I needed bifocals. But I wear contacts. So now one contact is for closeup vision while the other handles the far away vision. It sounds like a disaster, but I don't even notice (unless I have 1 eye closed). Pete, you should just relax and stop worrying about what-if's. It's not good for you. How long has that eye just sat there doing nothing? Around 25 years? Give your brain & eyes some time to work things out. And if it comes to a second surgery, so be it. You got through this one, you'll get through that if necessary.  | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,934 |
| | Posted: | | | | Congrats. I could not even imagine being blind in one eye, then being able to see.
I am glad all is working out (thus far), and hopefully you will not need another surgery.
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
Pete, you should just relax and stop worrying about what-if's. It's not good for you. How long has that eye just sat there doing nothing? Around 25 years? Give your brain & eyes some time to work things out. And if it comes to a second surgery, so be it. You got through this one, you'll get through that if necessary. Now there's some very sound advice!  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks everyone... while I still have the double vision... it has seemed to lessen. I know I need to give it time... after all I been blind in this eye for 30 years! It is just hard for me to.
But even with the double vision my eye sight is better then it has been since the accident that took away the sight 30 years ago. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | Pete,
The double vision should go. But it may take a couple of months, so don't panic! Certainly did with me when both my eyes were done a decade ago, and my wife who had both her eyes done in February this year still has a bit of trouble driving at night. She's due back at the clinic end of April, when they'll tweak it, either with laser or by putting a secondary lens in.
Been what, four days? Sounds like it's "so far so good!" Keep putting the drops in, very important. | | | | Chris | | | | Last edited: by Mole |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
.......one contact is for closeup vision while the other handles the far away vision. It sounds like a disaster, but I don't even notice (unless I have 1 eye closed). Interestingly, that is exactly how my "in-eye" lenses were replaced. In my case the crossover point is an "unfortunate" 2-2.5 feet......just where the computer screens sit on my desk. Most of the time it's OK but occasionally my eyes do feel a bit tired. But hey, I'm not complaining. I haven't worn glasses for twelve years, driving is not a problem (even driving on the "wrong" side of the road in the States  ) and I would now be blind without the surgery. I can even watch 3D movies, which considering that my eyes have different focal lengths, did surprise me - Pete, get yourself out to Universal Studios in LA and do the Terminator show - great fun! My's wife's new lens are different to mine, they have fitted varifocals in both eyes - apparently they rely on the changing in size of the pupil to "stop down" the lens just like a camera. As I said previously it's still early days for her, but she that thrown away the "bottom of bottles" glasses that she's worn since her teens, has no trouble driving (apart from the night thing) and is currently sat across from me knitting on 2.5 millimetre needles! And I agree with you about disliking the operation.....personally I would have preferred to watch <insert name of favourite football team> being thrashed 0-6 by <insert name of hated rival team> | | | | Chris |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | With the fear of jinxing myself, I just wanted to check in and report that while I still have a bit of double vision... over all today I have seen normally more then I have had double vision today! I have even been able to look at the computer screen without double vision some today! | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,630 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's great to hear the operation went well and is a success. Now, step away from the computer and don't fall into the temptation to stress your eyes. Didn't the doctor tell you to rest your eyes while they heal? Before you know it you'll be back into the swing of things. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks everyone...
Went back to doctor today...
I have been cleared to go back to work tomorrow. They want me to take it easy for a few days there... but other then that everything is looking good and healing nicely.
They did say they want to see me back in 2 weeks though. So looks like at least one more appointment with them. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: July 16, 2010 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 521 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's most excellent news. You seemed to have dealt with it all so well too. Even the smallest of operations is a source of stress and worry for most people (and eye related things are never minor), but you look to have coped with it brilliantly. | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Once again good news, Pete! How's your vision coming along? |
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