went to retina doctor, questions, plz help

[OpinionPlease]

i went to an eye doctor today, he so nice to the point that he takes pic without dilating my eyes per my request (cuze im sensitive with those) and he try to see my eyes without dilating, and he say he was able too, i guess my pupil are bigger than normal pupil.
he use a very bright light shine in my eye, he told me to keep looking left right, down, up, all kinds direction. i think it a scleral depressor, im scare cuze it hard, make out of metal, he use that to press down my bottom eyelid i think, to keep my eye stay so he can shine the lights, now below my eye kindda hurt and little puff up from it, i guess it normal.......it was hard to look in my eye without dilating that is why, dunno, im just freak out, i hope that the hard scleral depressor won't cause permantnent damage later on.
any opinion? comments from the md?

[des900]

i can see your concerns, i too had an experience like your's, one doctor applied hard pressure on bottom eyelids for examining lid glands,he applied abt 10 sec

after that event i got series of worries, still i am facing its consequences

i became anxious whether that pressure might damage eye & focuses more on eye floater's after 1 month past i did got a big floater,but i don't know whether that incident have created it,it drives me more anxious

only time can answer our concern's.

Good luck!

[des900]

i can see your concerns, i too had an experience like your's, one doctor applied hard pressure on bottom eyelids for examining lid glands,he applied abt 10 sec

after that event i got series of worries, still i am facing its consequences

i became anxious whether that pressure might damage eye & focuses more on eye floater's after 1 month past i did got a big floater,but i don't know whether that incident have created it,it drives me more anxious

only time can answer our concern's.

Good luck!

[OpinionPlease]

but u say it safe right? im just worry about the hard instrument he pressed on my bottom eyelid, i'm worry he gonna effect the back of my eye since he press it hard, i feel like my eyeball gonna pop out.
he said he found something on my right eye and he want a follow up in 2 weeks, he didn't say specificly what he saw in my right retina, he just said he saw something, but i guess on my follow up, he will looks at it more.

i went to this place www.retina2020.com since i live in california, they have alot of locations, so i think they know what they doing, i'm just in gerneral very paranoid, the doctor was like supper nice to deal with this paranoid of me, lolz

[des900]

Bright lights are used for both dilated & non dilated eyes, since your pupils were not dilated he may require much more light to examine retina structures.

[OpinionPlease]

so relief to hear that, i'm just scare of the very white bright bright light might cause me problems you know. but i read this "may apply pressure to your eyeball through the skin of your eyelids with a small, blunt instrument to help bring the edges of your fundus into view."
i think this is why he use that depressor on me, maybe i'm just paranoid, but since my eye weren't dilating, i hope it is safe.
i just have allergic reactions to the eyedrops, that is why i request the doctor not to dilate my eyes.

[des900]

These kinds of procedures are normal for viewing peripheral retina & generally will not cause any adverse effects.

[OpinionPlease]

oh oh, i request my pupil not dilated, he say it was big enough so he can see it,
he give me an indirect indirect ophthalmoscope test, which he use the depressor to hold down my eyelid so he can shine the lights in, just wonder if the light were too bright and harmful or the depressor cause me problems later on cuze it hard, he an MD, the place is call Retina Institute of California, i think they know what they doing

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[des900]

There are some eye procedures which require direct pressure on eyes,Doctor's consider this as safe for example suction pressure used in lasik refraction surgery,in some people complications can occur like retinal detachment,increased no floater's etc