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complications after YAG
I am frustrated and thought I would post my experience. I had cataract surgery in Nov 2014, everything great for about the first 3 weeks, then the clouding started (secondary cataract) . It happened really fast and when I was 3 months post opt from cataract surgery YAG was performed. Yag was done in one eye and didn't do much then it was done again, then it seems to be open. The other eye was YAGed and once again still cloudy.
go back for follow-up and after YAG in 2nd eye and find I have significant macular swelling. which is blamed on diabetes. told to see retina doc and don't come back until released from retina doc. Nice right.
out of frustration before being able to get into see retina doc, I go to my regular eye doc OD. , he is concerned about my scars after surgery and also retina swelling, he want me to see a cornea specialist. Great more good news, well I see retina doc and swelling was bad, vision had gotten worst so now we are doing eye injections. the injections are helping and my vision shows improvement cept for it still like looking thru wax paper in that eye. As for the other eye the cloudiness is mostly gone cept for blobby flap like a wiper that goes back and forth.. they say its a floater and nothing can be done about it. there is also another issue No one can explain without glasses when I look a any DOT, I see a ring. has this happened to anyone.. since yag in that eye my vision is kind of seems doubled and dots are rings. no explanation from a few eye doctors for this.
I went to cornea specialists and discovered that my scars were from my initial cataract surgery but they say the position was significantly anterior then what is usually done, but "different docs has different techniques" statement. I was also told my YAG in one eye was INCOMPLETE. and that doc didn't understand that at all. so when the retina doc is finished with me then they will re-YAG that eye. no one promised me better vision with cataract surgery, but it really got better for the first 3 weeks then after YAG it was worst then before surgery, I have still yet to be able to even get new glasses, my old RX isn't strong enough.. Its interesting that the ring business can be corrected by stronger glasses prescription . I never had this issue before cataract surgery and it didn't start till after the YAG procedure. I also didn't have macular edema till after YAG.
I understand with any procedure there are risk and possible complications associated especially when you have existing conditions, but I didn't expect the doc who did my cataract surgery to brush me off, and I expected my retina doc to tell me my YAG was incomplete but they didn't, until I got a totally different doctor to look at me did I discover this. its frustrating I just wanted my doctors look at the problems and offer a treatment plan.
its sort of sad to say the only benefit so far from cataract surgery was brighter color. I didn't expect vision to get worse.
go back for follow-up and after YAG in 2nd eye and find I have significant macular swelling. which is blamed on diabetes. told to see retina doc and don't come back until released from retina doc. Nice right.
out of frustration before being able to get into see retina doc, I go to my regular eye doc OD. , he is concerned about my scars after surgery and also retina swelling, he want me to see a cornea specialist. Great more good news, well I see retina doc and swelling was bad, vision had gotten worst so now we are doing eye injections. the injections are helping and my vision shows improvement cept for it still like looking thru wax paper in that eye. As for the other eye the cloudiness is mostly gone cept for blobby flap like a wiper that goes back and forth.. they say its a floater and nothing can be done about it. there is also another issue No one can explain without glasses when I look a any DOT, I see a ring. has this happened to anyone.. since yag in that eye my vision is kind of seems doubled and dots are rings. no explanation from a few eye doctors for this.
I went to cornea specialists and discovered that my scars were from my initial cataract surgery but they say the position was significantly anterior then what is usually done, but "different docs has different techniques" statement. I was also told my YAG in one eye was INCOMPLETE. and that doc didn't understand that at all. so when the retina doc is finished with me then they will re-YAG that eye. no one promised me better vision with cataract surgery, but it really got better for the first 3 weeks then after YAG it was worst then before surgery, I have still yet to be able to even get new glasses, my old RX isn't strong enough.. Its interesting that the ring business can be corrected by stronger glasses prescription . I never had this issue before cataract surgery and it didn't start till after the YAG procedure. I also didn't have macular edema till after YAG.
I understand with any procedure there are risk and possible complications associated especially when you have existing conditions, but I didn't expect the doc who did my cataract surgery to brush me off, and I expected my retina doc to tell me my YAG was incomplete but they didn't, until I got a totally different doctor to look at me did I discover this. its frustrating I just wanted my doctors look at the problems and offer a treatment plan.
its sort of sad to say the only benefit so far from cataract surgery was brighter color. I didn't expect vision to get worse.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Diabetics have increase chance macular edema after cataract or yag surgeries. Diabetic do more poorly after cataract surgeries than non diabetics.
Dr. O.
Dr. O.
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