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Has anyone had laser eye surgery for diabetic retinopathy?

I had half my right eye done on Tuesday. They said I might see ‘flashes’ for 2 or 3 days. 5 days later, it’s still blurry and a bit dark around the edges of my vision on the right side, which is really distracting and disorientating. I’m slightly concerned about it!
Haave you had it done, and how long did it take for your vision to go back to normal?
Thanks!
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Thanks! But I have the background info, I just wanted to hear, from people who have experienced it, how long their side effects lasted
I didn’t have the anaesthetic injection (you’d have to knock me out to stick a needle in my eye!) but I had anaesthetic drops. Numb eyes are weird. It didn’t really hurt, just made my eye water loads and made my face twitch. I had 963 burns done and have to have 2 or 3 more goes to finish both eyes. The grey blur & haze sounds pretty much like I’m getting.
Hope the 2nd opinion is helpful!

I’ve been receiving laser treatment for non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy for more than 20 years now. Initially, I used to be OK with just the eye drops that anaesthetise your eye, but I now have to have injections … due to the amount of laser treatment I’ve received over the years.

Incidentally, the injections don’t go directly into your eye. They go into the areas surrounding your eye, so there’s no way that they can actually go into the retina, which is, as I’m sure you’re aware, at the rear, and on the inside of your eye.

I must admit that I’ve never experienced the ‘flashes’, etc. for more than just a few hours. Having said that, travelling anywhere tends to ‘take it out of me’, and I invariably fall asleep for a few hours on my return home. Usually, by the time I wake up, the worst of it is all over, though I do still get some of the blurriness and darkness in my peripheral vision.

I hope you don’t mind my suggesting this, but if you’re concerned at all about how long it’s taking for you to fully recover, you should telephone the hospital where you’ve had the laser done and ask for their advice/guidance.

As I’m sure you’re already aware, they only normally laser one eye at a time, due to how long it takes for you to fully recover. There’d be no sense in them doing both eyes at the same time if you weren’t able to fully function on your return home.

As with Mrs. M, my eyes have become incrediby sensitive to light. (You may have noticed from my photograph/avatar that I wear darkened lenses in my spectacles.) Whether that is due to natural progression, or having received laser treatment, I don’t know. All I do know is that I’d never be safe driving as I need to be almost on the rear bumper of any car in front of us before I get to see it, and reading car number plates is almost out of the question … unless I’m having a particularly ‘good’ day.

I wish you the very best of luck, and hope that your worries/concerns are soon dealt with.

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