I had surgery in 2016 for a horseshoe-shaped tear in my retina. It caused me to have a macular pucker. At first, it wasn't a big deal but steadily over a couple of years, it has gotten very bad. My eye doctor thought I had a retina hole and sent me to a retina doctor who assured me I had a pseudo hole, I still couldn't see well but now it's crazy. If I close my bad eye I can see good. However, with both eyes open what I see is a ghosting image. Or if I close my good eye what I see is tilted so that one side is higher than the other. I now cannot drive or do any phone or computer work, without wearing a patch over my bad eye.
Fast forward to what my ophthalmologist suggests I do is see a surgeon. He insists that he would send his mother to get this surgery. I shouldn't but I googled the epi-membrane retina peel that is the procedure I would need to have. If you research what this entails it sounds awful. They have to remove all the gel from inside your eyeball and peel off the membrane. But I see that if they do this when the pucker came from a previous surgery the chances of the retina tearing completely and causing blindness is great. I keep wondering if I should just live with how it is now and forget it or get the surgery.