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I think that a few of you also have this problem and are taking shots in your eye. I had my shot today and after I got home my eye was so hazy I could see very little. After about five hours it is beginning to clear. Has this ever happened to any of you?
 
Hello, I too have your problem, I just got maybe my 9 th shoot, so I’m pretty good at it! The only problem I have had is a reaction to the badine solution, they didn’t flush it out good enough, almost went to the er. I’ve never experienced any severe blurryness, sometimes floating dots but always go away. My last shot they moved me to a shot every 8 weeks! I’m lucky that I have improved to maybe 95% recovery, only a small distortion in my vision. And the size of objects are the same in each eye.
Good luck! (Stay away from B.B. guns, you’ll shoot your eye out)
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Been there, not pleasant. Had 6 eye injections 2 lazer treatments and surgery trying to save my right eye, it didn't work. In answer to your question, yes, always blurry for about 6 or so hours then pretty strong pain for a day or two. Worse part was I had to learn to shoot all over again with vision in only one eye. No change in appearance in right eye though, no one knows it's blind but me.
 
I have an old buddy who lost sight in one eye several years ago. I can't imagine such a thing but he took it in stride, and with humor. Dark humor, but humor nevertheless. Never a pitying word.

I met him driving on the road one day and waved vigorously for him to pull over so we could chat. Went on by with never of a hint I was alive.

Next time we talked, I admonished him, "damn Vic, I waved my arm off trying to get you to pull over, and you just ignored me" !!
He grinned right big and said, "nah R, I won't ignoring you, but I only got one eye, and when it's driving, it's doing all the looking it can".

He was a great volunteer for youth sports, and even did some baseball umpiring. Yep,...that's right.:D
One night I was watching a slam-bam play at the plate and Vic made a bad call.
The opposing coach came raging from the dugout, steam jetting from both ears, and at the top of his lungs yelled, "ump, for Christ sakes you must be blind" !!!
Vic calmly raised the ump's mask up and turned that pale blue sightless orb at the coach and said, "cousin, you don't know the half of it;.... now go on back in the dugout and keep your ball players company" !

We all have to endure some hardships in life; but I tell ya, old Vic has a little harder bark on him than most..... me for sure.
 
Yep... been getting my eyes poked since last March after being diagnosed just after New Year's. Going in for another round tomorrow at 9am. Your symptoms are not unusual. The freezing gel takes time to wear off, and you'll get "floaters" in your field of vision for a while. I find it takes about 24 hrs. to fully recover but I'm usually pretty functional after 5-6.

Not nice, but better than the alternative. (And a great topic for grossing out people at parties!) Once he hit a blood vessel and things looked pretty ugly for about a week, but apparently this can happen occasionally and no actual damage was done, nor was there any additional discomfort.

Fortunately in my case the problem was diagnosed in time and no permanent damage (scarring) had occurred. The treatments have been helping and he's going to only do the left eye every other month now as it has showed better progress than the right (which has always been my strong eye.) Haven't been shooting this year as a result although my sight has been good enough to do so for the last couple of months. (Just been too busy with other stuff.)

I was originally diagnosed with dry AMD by the optician but when I got a referral to a proper optical surgeon it turned out that although I had had dry AMD, the actual cause of my reduced vision was the wet version, for which injections are the only current treatment. Apparently the "wet" will subsequently turn to "dry" but may not cause much of a problem as many people live with the dry version OK, as I had been doing.

BTW, there is a promising treatment for dry AMD being developed by a company called Lumithera in Poulsbo, WA, which involves doses of near-infrared light. It passed clinical trials last year and they are now trying to get the units out to ophalmologists. If it works as well as they hope, it will be the only effective treatment for dry AMD, although the long-term success is yet to be known.
 
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I had the dry several years before it went wet in my left eye. They are keeping a check on my right eye also. My shot got extended to nine weeks unless I have a problem. I hate getting the shot but I am so thankful that it is available. Just think of all the people that have had their vision saved.
 
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