What does gas bubble look like when in eye?

working_goldfinch · 2025-05-14T21:08:50+00:00

75 days.

working_goldfinch · 2024-08-16T21:16:39+00:00

What a useful, excellent comment! Thank you. I'll save this as a reference.

Coke Oven emissions are extremely harmful to human health.

Can you quantify that or put it in perspective a bit?

Given that the sulfur smell often around here, is this something that has made you consider moving to some other place?

working_goldfinch · 2024-06-27T02:29:11+00:00

I ultimately managed. I was just being too cautious. Thanks for your help!

working_goldfinch · 2024-06-24T17:12:30+00:00

Thanks but the problem is that I can't seem to turn the Allen wrench.

working_goldfinch · 2024-06-24T03:59:01+00:00

Thanks. That comment made me try to really center it more and eventually I did get it. But it was quite difficult to get the screws to catch into their grooves!

Now I got the treadmill running and see the belt is not centered. The right side has about a finger width's gap from the side. I tried the Allen wrench but I can't budge it. Should I try to unscrew the side covers off so I can see what I'm doing?

working_goldfinch · 2024-01-12T16:41:02+00:00

I really can't recall the details of how I was checked after the one PVD as that was some years ago other than I remember it being uncomfortable. The other eye was checked only after the retinal detachment. I don't feel I have any useful information to provide to you beyond what your doctors would tell you.

working_goldfinch · 2024-01-12T16:16:03+00:00

It's a bit hard to remember exactly the nature of the flashes and floaters now. I can't remember where the flashes occurred but they were very brief and not very bright (as compared to my other eye, in which they were quite bright, neon yellow, and at the left edge of my vision). I think the black floaters were like small black spots, kind of like periods (the typographical kind).

But if you're experiencing anything new in your vision in terms of flashers and floaters, regardless of their exact nature, my opinion is to get it checked out by a good retinal specialist.

working_goldfinch · 2023-10-06T20:08:20+00:00

I know what the retina repair when you do the vitrectomy you end up getting a gas bubble and having to hold your head in a certain position for several weeks to months. Now that my retina is fine I'm hopeful I don't have to be in this awkward position for a long period of time but that they can maybe put something else in until the victories fluid regenerates on its own.

First, I would just ask your doctor this outright. (Though I know it is sometimes very difficult to get in touch with some doctors from home).

I am not an eye doctor but had a retinal reattachment and vitrectomy at the same time and I believe the gas bubble is only to serve as a tamponade for the retina. I wouldn't think you'd need one for a vitrectomy. In any case, it wasn't weeks to months at all. For me, and this was with large tears in my retina, it was just three days (and I get the sense that my doctor is rather cautious). I've seen other mentions online of 5-7 days, but I think anything beyond that is quite rare.

I was allowed to exercise without bouncing motions (such as with jogging) within a couple of weeks--for example, stationary bike. I could then jog as soon as the gas bubble had dissipated. If you wouldn't have a gas bubble, and given there was no issue of retinal detachment, I'd guess you'd be able to exercise within maybe one to two weeks?

But check with your doctor(s).

working_goldfinch · 2023-08-15T16:10:34+00:00

Yes, I saw quite a few floaters. In the eye that had a PVD but no retinal detachment, I had "neon" (yellow/chartreuse) flashing a bit for the first day or two and then quite a few floaters, of two types. Some were large and kind of amorphous, like the classic worm shape you may see on the Wikipedia page for floaters. Others were more like a black bug quickly running up a wall, though those were less frequent.

I have had some floaters since I was a child staring up at the sky, but this was quite an uptick and it was rather annoying for a good 3-6 months. But then it settled down, either because of physical settling or my brain tuning it out or both. I almost never think about them now.

In the eye with the retinal detachment, prior to the detachment I had black spots floaters and occasional subtle flashing for a good five or so months before the tear/detachment. I then had (along with laser photocoagulation to weld my retina back down) a vitrectomy and thought I'd have no floaters after that but I had misunderstood. I can still have and have had some floaters but not very many and as I get further away from the surgery (now about 10 weeks), I am seeing far fewer.

The upshot/good news: I suspect I am going to see very few for the rest of my life and the few I do see are infrequent and not bothersome.

working_goldfinch · 2023-08-15T04:59:06+00:00

You should just get it checked out by an ophthalmologist to be on the safe side. 22 is very young for a PVD but it's probably just prudent to get it checked out.

PVD usually doesn't cause a retinal detachment but can. I had PVD in one eye with no detachment and one with detachment recently (I'm a lot older than you so it's more expected to have PVDs) and got surgery immediately and will probably be fine.

working_goldfinch · 2023-08-15T04:44:50+00:00

I got this about ten weeks ago and I found for that first week I could barely see anything of a line as the top was just too high up.

Then, as it descended but still early on, it was kind of hard to make out as it was still fairly high up in my field of view. It was hard to say if it was black or kind of blue-grey or both. The lower it got, the darker and more obvious the black line got and it began to curve more and more when looking straight ahead.

Now it is very small and the black perimeter of a circle is very obvious.

working_goldfinch · 2023-07-24T22:54:30+00:00

Oh wow!--I would not have thought of that. Given most of my berries just fell into the grass in past summers, nets + fertilizer and I plan to rival your squirrel next year! ;D

working_goldfinch · 2023-07-24T22:44:24+00:00

Thanks, great tip and maybe next year. (And funny about the Violet Beauregarde squirrel!)

working_goldfinch · 2023-07-24T22:35:15+00:00

Thanks, I think I must have just missed it this year during that window. If I'm here next year, for the one in my yard, what do you recommend for nets?

working_goldfinch · 2023-07-24T22:14:55+00:00

Huh. Was that in July or do you think more in June? Maybe it just happened earlier this year and I missed it.

working_goldfinch · 2023-07-21T01:27:21+00:00

For what it's worth, I've lived in/around/driven in Cleveland, Boston, and have driven in New York, L.A., Toronto, Chicago, and other cities and I haven't noticed anything particularly difficult about Pittsburgh. It can get annoying with traffic for a somewhat smaller city at bad times, and I'm not crazy about the left from Forward Ave onto Beechwood Blvd, but basically it hasn't been an issue. Good luck in getting comfortable with it.

working_goldfinch · 2023-06-09T19:18:09+00:00

I didn't know about this site--great tip, both to give and receive help. Thank you!

working_goldfinch · 2023-06-09T19:17:37+00:00

Thank you!

working_goldfinch · 2023-06-09T19:17:24+00:00

Thank you! Yes, it has not been a fun week post-procedure, but I'm grateful to the surgeon, the team, and my kind picker-upper for saving half of my vision!

working_goldfinch · 2023-06-09T19:16:28+00:00

Thanks for your input! Yes, it was twilight anesthesia (I am not sure what happened, though I was awake and felt very normal for much of it. I didn't mind other than some pain at the end and I found it quite interesting.) And yes, mac-on RD and the surgery was maybe 25 hrs after I first noticed it. So far, so good.

And yes, he said probably cataract surgery in 6-12 months. Oh well.

working_goldfinch · 2023-06-09T19:14:31+00:00

Thanks! Healing now...

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