Successful surgery

Hey everyone, I had a really good surgery. I was on top of the list, but it seriously was a nerve-wrecking experience.

As I registered with the hospital, they took me in, checked my vital signs and everything, and in a half hour or so later, the doctors took me to the surgeon room. My head was taped to the bed. I was hooked with IV. Several monitors were hooked up on me, and they gave me a sedative. I was half awake and half asleep, but it didn't even feel that long. It was a 30 minute surgery. They freezed the shit out of my left eye and started doing the job.

It took them a while to wake me up, and it took me a while to get into my senses. My left eye is now covered for 24 hours with a shield, and I have some tests to get done tomorrow. I still had the effects of the sedative and it made me talk so different. The doctor asked if I was fine, I said yes...then for some odd reason I started crying. I started talking to everyone like a 6 year old child and couldn't properly look at people because my eyes were burning and had a throbbing feeling. They explained to me and everyone what to do, I'm on meds but I understood 60% of what they said because I wasn't fully conscious but now I'm just dependent on my family tzake care of me, lol.

I spent the full car ride home talking to my family but was fully emotional and it was painful. I couldn't close any of my eyes when I wanted to sleep when I got home (10:30ish?) and eventually did at 11 AM.

Just got woken up with meds and feel EXTREMELY weak but at least the pain I had in my eyes are not as significant as it was before. I can close them now.

Thank you so much everyone for your wishes and everything, means a lot. I feel like I didn't express this as well to my doctor (but did to my nurses) while on the sedative, so will give him a sincere thank-you tomorrow during my follow-up appointment.
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Congratulations! :)

It was a bigger surgery than my dad had I take it. He was fully awake, sitting in a chair the whole time. I'm happy it went well for you, and remember to take good care of the eye now that it's healing!
 
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Congratz man, I know how you feel, I had surgery on my face years ago, glad everything is going well with you:)
 
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Thanks a lot everyone, I can't wait to hear what I can expect for my vision in the near future as well, for now I shall rest and gain my strength. I had to be on a wheelchair for the ride to the car, that's how weak I was, lol.
 
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If it's not too much to ask, but what did you have surgery of?
You mentioned your eye being shielded for 24 hours, but what was the reason of the surgery?
 
I've had surgery on my two front teeth. I fell off a rolling slide and hit the last two pins. My parents couldn't even watch, it was that bad. I feel for man. I hope all is well, and for a swift recovery.
 
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Thanks a lot again everyone, and ShadowOne--it was a lens implant. I talked more about it in my previous bog. And damn, Condarkness, that's GOTTA suck.
 
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@ComeTurismO . It did. I had a pool of blood in my hand for almost 30 minutes. Faded in and out of unconscious, and had to be sedated so they could operate. I would rank that with being one of the most unpleasant experiences in my life.
 
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hi,
glad it went well.
Get a lot of rest and let us know in few days how you feel and if you already notice a difference in your visual acuity, even small one.
I've checked online, and everywhere it confirmed that past 6 years old, amblyopia (not strabism but deficient vision on one eye) can't be treated anymore. and the more you wait, the harder it is to get any improvement. well, you are still young, so maybe your brain will re-adapt, even a little.

Was your surgery experimental? do people already benefit from it and got results? maybe that's a new treatment, though it's an aggressive one.
 
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Can't imagine what you've been through; congratulations and all the best! We're all rooting for a quick, painless and successful recovery, and as Cyan has said, please keep us posted!
 
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if it's really amblyopia he has, it's caused by the brain abandoning one eye's data from the vision processing.
it's usually due to different dioptrie on each eye, the brain focusing on the best one and stopping analyzing the "lazy eye".
Another cause could be cataract on one eye, and the result is the same : the brain only focus on a single eye due to the other not seeing correctly.

It can be treated very early (1 year old) by using patches to force the lazy eye to be active and/or make both eyes the same dioptrie to prevent the brain from choosing only one "input" to process the data.
past 6 years old, the chance to get the brain to re-use the two eyes are small. even if you get a new eye with good vision, the brain is not used to process the image seen through it and will likely not use it.
 
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Glad everything went well!
Now here's hoping for a nice and fast recovery. :)
I'll also have some sort of similar surgery in some months, basically I have two different sight diseases, once in each eye, and I will enter surgery to hopefully work on those two.

Let's see how it goes for me :P
 
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