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[Podlettte]

How did your scan go?

[Jahoota]

I haven't heard? herd? as yet it. My doc doesn't works thursday's so I expect a call tomorrow. I'm not expecting anything untoward tho - they didn't freak out and make me drink the glow-in-the-dark coolaid when they did the CT so I took that as being a good sign!

I do need to book an appointment with a peeper person tho just to make sure my vision thing wasn't some sort of detached retina thing or sort of macular degeneration thing. It was really the memory thing that spooked me as I hadn't associated that with migrane like activity. I've since been told that that can happen.

Damn. Now I sound like an old fart!!! get me my zimmer frame! graemlins/big_laugh.gif

[Podlettte]

hmm dad had a partially detached retina... is your iris or pupil all wonky? if it's anything to do with the eye, get yourself to the eye hospital. Macular degeneration means you haven't protected your eyes enough from UV and UV has caused your macular to deteriorate. full detachment isn't pretty! hopefully it's nothing, knocks to the head are a no no with a partially detached retina.

[Podlettte]

Hopefully it was a TIA (trans ischemic attack) rather than a stroke, you get the symptoms of a stroke but they are temporary ie a few hours at most

[Jahoota]

Originally posted by Podlettte:
Hopefully it was a TIA (trans ischemic attack) sounds like a icelandic railway!

[ 16.01.2009, 08:07 AM: Message edited by: Jahoota ]

[Dippo]

Originally posted by Podlettte:
Macular degeneration means you haven't protected your eyes enough from UV and UV has caused your macular to deteriorate. full detachment isn't pretty! hopefully it's nothing, knocks to the head are a no no with a partially detached retina. Very close there Podlette. Puts eyecare hat on, Macular Degeneration is an age related disease of the retina causing loss of vision. The UV problem is called a cataract, also age related but its the lens in front of the retina that can cause loss of vision. I'm not an optom but have been in the eyecare industry for 25 years.

[Podlettte]

hmm ok, thanks Dippo, eye hospital said dad's detached retina was/is due to age, yes, but also excessive exposure to UV over the years. he doesnt have cataracts, the weirdness I was referring to was what I called a sloppy pupil, where it had changed shape and invaded the iris in a black drip line, so not the white of a cataract.

[Sailor]

Hi Dippo,
Just to clear things up a little (I hope)
MD , yes is age related and associated with smoking.
It is also helped along by exposure to UV and is very common now with people in their 70's who spent their youth on the beach and on the water....my Mum is legally blind with just a trace of peripheral vision left in one eye as a result of MD....unfortunately it's also an hereditary trait so I spend a whole lot of money on sunglasses and goggles to reduce my chances.

Good article here
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/macular_degeneration/article_em.htm

Cheers.

[Dippo]

Excellent Article Sailor and very good info. Sorry to hear about your Mum. My father-in-law is in the early stages of MD. He turned 70 last week. He is more worried about his tennis career more then anything. He currently playing in the Aust Veterans tournament in Adelaide at the moment. He has spent his whole life on the tennis court. So UV damage would be high even though he has worn specs most of his life.
I to rarely go outside without sunnies on, even on cloudy dull days. Luckily for me being in the optical industry I don't have to spend anything on sunnies or goggles.

Pods, Detach retina's can be age related but the stats are low. They tend to occur more with people with high myopia.

[Podlettte]

I find my eyes are sensitive to light so will wear sunnies all the time just for that, Cancer council sunnies usually as they fit my face the best with the added benefit that I know they are UVA UVB rated properly, not fashion sunnies