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<blockquote data-quote="runningwitht1" data-source="post: 1876881" data-attributes="member: 476056"><p>Thanks for the replies. Hope everyone is doing well.</p><p></p><p>I’ve had four partial laser sessions to the left eye now. I say partial as I’ve pretty much been continually having vitreous haemorrhages since this all started in May and the laser surgeon can only work with what he can see.</p><p></p><p>Saw the vitreo-retinal surgeon last week and will now be having a vitrectomy of the left eye at some point over the next couple of months. I can’t really see anything through the left eye at the moment and he had to ultrasound my eyeball as he could not see my retina. He said the recurrent haemorrhages are being caused by traction where my abnormal vessels are pulling the vitreous?</p><p></p><p>He will cauterise these vessels and do some laser and I’ll have an avastin injection the week before. He seems to be pretty confident this will sort things out. I just hope so (having read stories of multiple vitrectonies being needed but he said this is very rare). He said i May end up with a gas bubble (an I right in thinking this would be if the retina becomes damaged during the surgery?)</p><p></p><p>All the eye doctors and surgeons I’ve seen seen confident that I *should* keep my vision and that my retina is in good health behind all that haemorrhage and I’m sure they wouldn’t just say this if they didn’t mean it.</p><p></p><p>I’m only four months into this journey and pretty fed up with it. It’s inspiring to read stories of others who’ve been dealing with it for years!</p><p></p><p>I’m finding it harder to maintain good control now I’ve not run for months but am trying my best to keep things as tight as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runningwitht1, post: 1876881, member: 476056"] Thanks for the replies. Hope everyone is doing well. I’ve had four partial laser sessions to the left eye now. I say partial as I’ve pretty much been continually having vitreous haemorrhages since this all started in May and the laser surgeon can only work with what he can see. Saw the vitreo-retinal surgeon last week and will now be having a vitrectomy of the left eye at some point over the next couple of months. I can’t really see anything through the left eye at the moment and he had to ultrasound my eyeball as he could not see my retina. He said the recurrent haemorrhages are being caused by traction where my abnormal vessels are pulling the vitreous? He will cauterise these vessels and do some laser and I’ll have an avastin injection the week before. He seems to be pretty confident this will sort things out. I just hope so (having read stories of multiple vitrectonies being needed but he said this is very rare). He said i May end up with a gas bubble (an I right in thinking this would be if the retina becomes damaged during the surgery?) All the eye doctors and surgeons I’ve seen seen confident that I *should* keep my vision and that my retina is in good health behind all that haemorrhage and I’m sure they wouldn’t just say this if they didn’t mean it. I’m only four months into this journey and pretty fed up with it. It’s inspiring to read stories of others who’ve been dealing with it for years! I’m finding it harder to maintain good control now I’ve not run for months but am trying my best to keep things as tight as possible. [/QUOTE]
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