Look carefully at the doctors card. If it had "MD" or "DO" after his name that's okay. If it has "OD" it means he's an optometrist who is not a physician, not a MD, has not been to medical school and you should see someone with a MD or DO after their name. Find one at www.aao.org
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Oh I don't know, I think his title is just OD
but I have his card and under speacialities it list things like trauma and disease treatment
and I know he does laser correction. I don't know if that means anything...
I did get my appoinment moved to this thursday, so it is sooner. Do you really think I need to get an appt with someone else? Or should I see what he says thurs?
You have an appt with an MD eye doctor, right?
the flashes of RD are very bright and very short. think like a bolt of lightening at midnight. How often they occur depends on how much traction the vitreous in the back of the eye is putting on the retina. An infrequent flash is much less worrisome than very frequent flashes especially flashes that occur in daylight and without eye movement.
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Ok thanks. And one more thing, I always read things about flashes but I'm still a little confused. One thing I read said they were infrequent while another article said they are very frequent. Sometimes I think I might have seen a flash, but I could just be freaking myself out. I'm sort of a hypochondriac at times and I always worry about things too much. These flashes will be pretty obvious right? And how big are they?
Retinal detachment is very rare at your age and with a negative family history. perhaps as little chance as one in 8000. With no flashes, no loss or peripheral vision, no history of severe trauma and no previous cataract surgery then NO 2 weeks isn't too long of a wait.
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