Do Gas bubbles for vitrectomy break into smaller bubbles?

[gooshlem]

About 6 weeks ago I had a vitrectomy for several retinal tears.  A gas bubble was placed in my eye.  I just noticed that all of a sudden there seem to be 2 smaller bubbles that are attached to the one that was there.  Is this normal?  Is the bubble breaking up?  Or could this be some blood (or a large dark floater)?  The bubble itself seems to be about the size of a lemon, seen from the front and the small one is about the size of a pea.  But the "pea" is getting bigger.  And now there is another tiny one which travels around, and sometimes seems to tuck into the space between the bigger small bubble and the full size bubble.
Is this normal, or will i need more surgery or etc?

[jmartone1964]

I had a vitrectomy a month ago and as of last week my bubble was at about 40%.  With the fluid to gas ratio increasing, the bubble moves around and shimmers a lot more.  Yesterday I must have jostled my head in the shower and it split.  Drove me nuts all day.  Tried to gently shake my head to get it to rejoin into a single bubble and ended up splitting it into 3 with some small bubbles in between.  Thankfully, they had all rejoined when I woke this morning.  I guess this is just part of the change in viscosity and disapation.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Yup it is

[larryng]

I had a gas bubble put in 32 days agp. It broke up into two about an hour ago. Just now, it merged back into one again. I read somewhere that breaking up is quite common as the bubble shrinks. Have faith and patience, it is disappearing soon.

[Houman Vosoghi, MD]

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