I'm reading this in October 2017 and it's super helpful. I was just diagnosed with Macular Pucker yesterday. It happened suddenly. I woke up one day about 2 weeks ago and saw a round circle with squigly lines around it and then I started having a hard time reading the computer monitor. I work online and use dual monitors so this is a big issue.
My biggest issue is that my vision is 20/20 when I use glasses so they don't want to do the surgery. They let me know the risks and that it is a delicate surgery and the good chance for cataracts.
I have eye pain now, the kind you get when you know you need glasses and your eyes are straining to see. So one question I have is can I get computer glasses to see the computer screen better and maybe it will help with the pain? I use my reading glasses to read close and prescription glasses to see far. The real problem is somewhere in the middle.
I noticed this poster's last comment was regarding a particular clinic in 2015 where the surgery was planned, but unless I missed something, I did not see a follow up account of his/her surgery having been done.
I notice you have a similar screen name to mine and didn't want confusion, but wondered whether you did in fact decide to proceed with the pucker surgery.
I have the membrane but while at first was opting for surgery right away have decided to hold off and give myself some additional time to consider.
Wondered what happened as I read this thread and then didn't want our names confused. :)
Hi Rita,
How was the surgery?
Thanks
Cr
Hi Luvtoski,
Did your blind spot go away?
And what was the cause?
Thanks
Cr
my retna specialist says they like to remove the cataract at the same time they do the macula pucker surgry
my retna specialist says they like to remove the cataract at the same time they do the macula pucker surgry
Actually, this past week I had the second surgery for macullar pucker. The first was put off for a year, then the distortion was going to prevent my passing my driver's test, so I had it done. Sight improved for well over a year, to about 20/40.
This time was the other eye, minor distortion. Then one day, shortly after a steroid shot for allergies, I had major distortion. My surgeon, whom I saw every six months, got me right in after I told him the Amsler grid was suddenly grey in the middle, and snarled like fishing line. I was given Avastan shot that day, and for two month to get rid of edema and vision went fro just the E on the chart, to four lines down. Finally, I had the surgery and am in the first week right now. The second day after, distortion on the grid was both ways. By the 6th day, it was just vertical, and today (10th day), even that is milder. I do not have great vision, with grey blank spot which comes and goes, but so do the black specks which always follow. I can see the E on the chart, and sometimes a couple more lines, sometimes not
Having been through this before, I have a wait and see approach. Doc said I may need the shots again after surgery, or maybe not. I know they told me my other eye would improve for six months, but my optometrist said it continues to improve six years later. I know also that my brother in law, originally on Avistan shots for macular degeneration was legally blind, but after being put on Eylea shots this year, is at 20/40 vision! I am glad I had the vitreus removed, as I did not want retina detachment from that. It will be what it will, but there are several options out there, and I am pleased with the results in the first eye done. I will follow doc's advice, as he has earned my trust as a fine surgeon.
Sorry for taking so long to answer about how long to wear the 'pinhole' eye-patch/glasses. The answer is simply as long as you like and/or can tolerate. It's just an alternative way to get a rest from the distortion and blurry vision in the bad eye. I'm scheduled for mac pucker surgery in a few weeks, thanks to all I've read in this forum. I'm at 20/200 in the bad eye and don't want to wait. Nothing to lose at this point. Odds are in my favor I will at least experience some improvement.
Thanks for the follow up. Best of luck
Went to my optometrist on 2/25 to update my lens prescription, appears that my left (affected) eye will at this time be correctable to 20/30. As somewhat expected following a vitrectomy, the early stages of cataract development have begun, but I will only need to take a watchful approach toward that for now.
Returned to my ophthalmologist on February 9th, a little more than 4 months after surgery. Vision in affected eye appears to have settled out to 20/50, IOP was 15 in affected eye and 17 in the other, and have been cleared to return to my optometrist to update my glasses. Will hold off on returning to contacts for a while longer.
kaugirl2, have you had an OCT scan since being diagnosed with a return of the macular pucker?
I had macular pucker surgery in July. Before the surgery I had very clear vision, but severe distortion. After the surgery, my vision was 20/200. Initially my surgeon could not tell me why my vision changed so radically. Then, he suggested that a the pre-surgical cataract grew rapidly after the procedure and that was causing my vision loss. In November, I had cataract surgery with a lens implant. My vision is still 20/200, but somewhat correctable with glasses. The cataract surgeon told me that because I had previous LASIX surgery, it was more difficult to gauge what lens to use for the implant. Hm...To top it off, my macular pucker is back. In retrospect, I should never had had the vitrectomy.