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Question for those that have had it happen, did your doc give any advice on shooting or not after the event?

My regular doc was out when it happened, the guy I saw told me to go on with normal activity. I was just relieved to find it wasn't a retina detachment that I forgot to ask him about shooting or not.

I'm scheduled for a follow up but thats a month away. He told me its age related along with some other factors like being really near sighted which I was before IOL surgery about 3 years ago.

All I could find on the net was a few shotgun competitors talking about retina tears. All I want to do is bang away with a new PCC.

If it were me I'd simply call and ask.

I had a vitreous layer detachment and was very fortunate that Reno NV has one of the world's best eye surgeons, and I was referred to him by my GP.

Dr Arshad Khanani travels the world and bases his practice in Reno. He left his anniversary party on a Sunday to meet me at his clinic and saved my left eye. He did lazer surgery to re-attach the vitreous layer.

DON'T delay in going to an eye surgeon!!!

The retina didn't detach, I had some flashes of light and a new large floater about 3 weeks ago. Happened late on a Thursday, I was waiting at the door of my doctor the next morning when they opened the door.

This explains what I have going on. PVD

Still have 20 20 vision in that eye.

The flashes stopped in a day or so and the floater has diminished or I've gotten used to it. I have another followup in 4 weeks or so.

I've sent them a message asking if I can shoot or wait.

This is one case where you don’t want to live up to your screen name.

You got that right!

I got that handle competing in highpower rifle matches with coke bottle bottom glasses. Was very nearsighted before the IOL replacements.

It's like lightening going off just to one side or another! That went away, and the many floaters are now something the brain adjusts to. A vitreous layer detachment is a strange thing to experience.

I’ve gone through a detached retina and, if I recall correctly, the surgeon felt a separation of the vitreous led to the detached retina. When the vitreous in the other eye started to separate, he did retinal surgery on that eye tacking the retina in place to prevent a detachment. I would definitely consult with a retinal specialist for advice to see if there is any danger of your condition leading to a detached retina.

Obviously consult your own Doctor. I've had it in both eyes. it's the Vitreous separating from the Retina, common in people with near sightedness. My Doctor said go ahead and shoot, and I did without any problems. Again. Ask your own Doctor. I would add: if you seriously consider Laser Surgery. It's better if it separates on it's own. No coming back from Laser.
Gary

Didn't hear from them today.

I'll wait until I can see the doc.

Thanks for all the replies.

This. I'm partially blind in one eye because of the doctor's laziness. Time matters when it comes to any interior eye injury. Demand attention and treatment ASAP. If he won't, dump him and find someone who will. Duke University is great.

One small floater from an impact
Eye doc said no shooting for 2.months.
Hell maybe it was 3 months.
Didnt matter. Did what he said.
Wasnt gonna risk it

I had one in 07. went to the Uncompahgre for a bowhunt, on the way back to texas it tore loose. when i got back to houston it was laser welded.

My ophthalmologist lost his mind and had to give up his medical license so when it happened to me I was referred to a retinologist. The main complication can be a detachment of the retina, although rare. Mine was okay and since I already knew what to expect I didn't go in for a checkup when the other eye did the same. It seems to be a common part of the aging process and the other eye will follow suit inside of a year.

I didn't even consider shooting since the huge floater was so annoying.

Same for me. I had scleral buckle surgery for a partial detachment in 2007, and as a precaution the surgeon followed up with the laser spot welding in the other eye for the same reason. It seems to have worked - I had a thorough inspection just yesterday.

Best with this sort of stuff to get the information straight from the specialist though. The stakes are rather high.

I think you may have had PVD with retinal tear which he lasered to reduce the risk of RD.

PVDs are a normal event in aging and normally don't result in retinal tear (Retinal Break).

I've never heard of lasering a PVD to reattach it as the contracted vitreous would pull on the retina and increase risk of a Retinal Break. A PVD is shrinkage of the vitreous body which liquefies as we age resulting in it detaching from the retina at the Ora Serrata (anterior edge of the retina), the macula or at the margin of the optic nerve head.

If he actually did laser the vitreous it was, I expect, to break up a vitreous floater that was interfering with your vision. Normally those floaters sink down and out of one's sight after a few weeks

I suppose if a guy gets paid to do laser treatments on PVDs he's very busy and possibly Jewish and would certainly be able to afford to travel the world.

We typically performed dilated retinal evaluations on patients with a fresh PVD shortly after occurrence for evidence of Retinal Break, which is unusual but more common in high myopes who have eves with longer axial lengths and with retinas which have essentially stretched to maintain connection with the underlying vascular layer of the eye, called the choroid, which feeds the outer layers of the retina. The PVD patient should have another retinal exam 2-3 weeks later since a PVD can sometimes result in a retinal break which is not initially visible as the edges of the break continue to lie in apposition to each other.

The re-exam is done later to try and find any evidence of those edges separating as a result of the now liquefied vitreous shaking with motion of the patients head and eye movements. If those edges separate from that or from continued contration of vitreous strands still attached to the retina, there is a danger of the liquefied vitreous encroaching through the break and under the retina. That can result in detachment of the retina from the Choridal layer which results in death of the outer layers of the retina due to loss of blood flow.

If no break is found on that second retinal evaluation it is recommended that another examination be performed 3 months later.

Same exact thing happened to me a few years ago in my right eye. Scared the crap out of me seeing lightning bolts that weren't there, followed the next day with a huge floater. Went to the eye doctor as soon as I could. Told me it was an aging thing. Then this year it happened in the other eye. Same exact pattern. Went in again, and they said the same thing. Now both eyes have it. The floaters in the right eye took about a year to get better, so I assume the ones in my left will eventually, too.

This is exactly how he explained it to me. I was/am very myopic like -8 power lens so my risk is higher.

Told me the retina looked fine on the initial exam and to come back for followups.

He does everything for free when he travels to 3rd world countries and is a world famous surgeon. He is Iranian, a second generation American and was rich before he became a doctor. He isn't in it for the money. I know he accepts anyone and doesn't charge Medicare co-pays often, when patients can't afford it.