ANA Discussion Forum
Post-Treatment => Eye Issues => Topic started by: patbiedermann on March 05, 2012, 01:19:52 pm
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I went to the eye doctor today for him to check my glaucoma, which I had prior to my CPA tumor. I had laser surgery 6 years ago for it and have been doing fine. My my glaucoma is fine, However on my visual field I had done prior to todays checkup showed the bottom half of my right eye isn't very good. Right after my surgery I had a corneal ulceration and was treated with a protective contact lens and antibiotics. that healed fine. I had a gold weight put in in January because my eyelid wasn't closing completely. I have been putting in eye drops continously and use lacrilube gel at night. The eye doctor today put a protective contact lens (which I hate) in and gave me antibiotic drops and I am to use the eye drops that I am using every hour. I will go back in 2 weeks. He is trying to protect my cornea. He says I have come a
long way. If this doesn't work, he may have to do surgery to raise my lower lid. I don't want anymore surgery. This is so frustrating... I just want everthing to get back to as much normal as it can be. I don't want to see anymore doctors!!! I have my second followup MRI on Thursday and see my neurosurgeon on the 16th. If what he had to leave in (about 5%) has grown, he wants to do Gamma Knife. On the first MRI postsurgery, neither the radiologist or he could tell if this was residual tumor or postop change. I hope it is postop change. I feel frustrated. I just want to cry and no one seems to understand. It seems whenever I feel as if I am making progress, I take 2 steps back. Will things ever be "normal" again?
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I'm so sorry that you are going through this. While I did not have an AN, I had another rare neurological condition (hemifacial spasm) with post-surgical facial paralysis and of course eye issues.
I vote go ahead and cry. Sometimes it's just a relief to get the pent-up emotions out of your system for a while. Even if nobody immediately around you understands, there are plenty here who do. I also join you in your hope that your second follow-up MRI shows no problems.
Can you tell me what kind of protective contact lens your doctor prescribed you? I am interested in finding an alternative to using Refresh PM gel 24/7. I had LASIK in 2000 and really miss the sharp vision.
Take care and hang in there.
Sara
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sara,
He didn't prescribe the contact. He put it in in the office. He said if it falls out before I see him in 2 weeks, it's ok. Just resume using the lacrilube. He would like the cornea to heal as much as it can on its own. He put the contact in to help protect it.