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<blockquote data-quote="Lhardy5973" data-source="post: 1671544" data-attributes="member: 468093"><p>Hi McOwarth, </p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed with severe proliferative retinopathy in both eyes in January 2017 aged 25 (teen years of not giving a monkey and wanting to be normal certainly caught up with me too!!) like you I was incredibly nervous before my first lot of laser- but was remarkably suprised!! It genuinely isn’t as bad as you’d think. </p><p>As it stands I’ve now had 4sets of “standard” medical retina team laser on both eyes- this was at most uncomfortable but I always found the doctor doing it to be watching and attentive to this. Unfortunatly, the laser in my right eye wasn’t as successful as they’d hoped (its worse) leading to a “big massive” (according to one of my hospital letters ) vitreous heammorage which led to me being unable to see out of half my right eye. This led to a referral to a vitro retinal team who initially did “aggressive laser” the same principle as standard but lots more of it and higher power. I’ve had this now to both eyes twice (I’m at the stage of if I need more it’s likely to begin effecting my pheripheral vision which as yet thankfully is completely present). I’ve been offered numbing injections for this laser but have always managed with just drops- I did find that it felt as if I’d been kicked in the head repeatedly for afew days on one eye but then on another this was more like a toddler kick - so this does hurt more (eg. Couldn’t keep eye open and sunlight killed!!) but again this is much more aggressive form of laser- and it’s not disasterous by any means. </p><p></p><p>Normally- with the standard laser- I’ve had to adjust the brightness of my phone screen etc but I’ve been perfectly fine to return to work afterwards. They say to take some paracetamol and ibuprofen before anyhow- although I don’t it may help for you. </p><p></p><p>Let us know how you get on- and don’t panic- you’ll probably laugh at yourself after - I know I did!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lhardy5973, post: 1671544, member: 468093"] Hi McOwarth, I was diagnosed with severe proliferative retinopathy in both eyes in January 2017 aged 25 (teen years of not giving a monkey and wanting to be normal certainly caught up with me too!!) like you I was incredibly nervous before my first lot of laser- but was remarkably suprised!! It genuinely isn’t as bad as you’d think. As it stands I’ve now had 4sets of “standard” medical retina team laser on both eyes- this was at most uncomfortable but I always found the doctor doing it to be watching and attentive to this. Unfortunatly, the laser in my right eye wasn’t as successful as they’d hoped (its worse) leading to a “big massive” (according to one of my hospital letters ) vitreous heammorage which led to me being unable to see out of half my right eye. This led to a referral to a vitro retinal team who initially did “aggressive laser” the same principle as standard but lots more of it and higher power. I’ve had this now to both eyes twice (I’m at the stage of if I need more it’s likely to begin effecting my pheripheral vision which as yet thankfully is completely present). I’ve been offered numbing injections for this laser but have always managed with just drops- I did find that it felt as if I’d been kicked in the head repeatedly for afew days on one eye but then on another this was more like a toddler kick - so this does hurt more (eg. Couldn’t keep eye open and sunlight killed!!) but again this is much more aggressive form of laser- and it’s not disasterous by any means. Normally- with the standard laser- I’ve had to adjust the brightness of my phone screen etc but I’ve been perfectly fine to return to work afterwards. They say to take some paracetamol and ibuprofen before anyhow- although I don’t it may help for you. Let us know how you get on- and don’t panic- you’ll probably laugh at yourself after - I know I did!! [/QUOTE]
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