I have three very experienced and respected retinal surgeons telling me my scleral buckle has become raised and displaced, AND they find evidence that the corner of the buckle literally broke through the skin, caused a small hole to form, and that somehow my body grew a thin layer of cells to cover the hole.
I had a very sudden onset debilitating double vision four years ago that continues to this day, and the onset of double vision was accompanied by severe eye pain in the upper/nasal corner of my eye, which is exactly where the buckle has apparently broken a very small hole through the eyeball (that now seems to have been grown over by a thin layer of sclera to heal the hole). I also had a ton of “gunk” ooze from my eye that day, and there’s a chance I could have contracted an outer eye infection that also (miraculously) healed itself. I have several pictures of my eye during the first 4-5 days of this episode.
However, my original retina surgeon, who installed the buckle, insists they’re all WRONG.
I find this disconcerting because it should be a trivial matter to identify if raised & displaced buckle that has broken a small hole through the outer layer of my eyeball!
The situation needs to be fixed because I can’t continue on productively with this debilitating double vision.
—> Is my original eye surgeon obligated to inform me that my buckle has become raised & displaced? I can’t fathom that he’s not obligated to inform me if indeed that has occurred (regardless of whether or not it’s due to incorrect installation of the buckle or not — I don’t really care, I just want the situation fixed).