Is the wrinkle from a previous torn retina that was fixed with a laser?
I have one of those although my Dr. calls it a bump.
Ron
Ron, my cataract surgeon calls'em "wrinkles", the retina surgeon calls'em "film", and his paperwork at the surgery center calls'em "macular pucker", so your doctor's "bump" is new to me, but I'm not surprised.:laughing:
But to answer your question, no previous retina problem or repair. In August, I went for an annual eye exam by an optometrist. Now they'd told me the last two annual exams that I had cataracts, but not bad enough to do anything
yet. Well, this year she says, "The cataracts have grown. I think you need to see a specialist. How do you feel about cataract surgery?" So I went to see an ophthalmologist. He said I had cataracts and he could fix that, but it wouldn't be as drastic an improvement as many people get because I had wrinkles on the retina. He said if you think of the eye as a camera, cataracts are a cloudy lens and the retina is the film. A new clear lens fixes that, but you still don't get a perfect picture if the film's wrinkled. So he sent me to this retina specialist in September who, after a thorough exam, said to get the cataracts fixed, then come back. So I had the left cataract done in Oct., the right one in Nov. then back to the retina specialist who did the left eye this morning.
No injuries as far as I know. I just knew that even though they insisted my spectacte prescription was right and good as it gets, my vision left a great deal to be desired.
So tomorrow I'll ask how long it's going to take for this left eye to completely heal, and then I reckon we'll do the right eye, and then probably get new spectacles, although I guess it's possible that I won't need them. Both of these guys say my vision stil won't be perfect because I have just a little bit of macular degeneration; not much, just a little.