Macular edema, glasses that promise to reverse retinopathy?

Well, I just came from the retinologist, there is edema in the left eye and they have to click Avastin, does anyone know it?How have you gone to you?@"Nigiri" How do you see?

@"KRRS" I don't know what they are injecting me, the truth, but mine is three punctures, one a month, and then review and if the edema has reversed do not put me anymore, if not, they have to me toClick twice more.I really don't know what to say about my vision.When I began to notice that I saw it strange it is because I saw bad with my right eye but I noticed it having both eyes open, I had the feeling of seeing through a drop of water or a glass or something weird, then I went to the emergency room andAs I did so many dogs in my eye to see what happened to me because I was another week that I saw even worse but suddenly I began to see better than even at the beginning and there they had not yet put any treatment.Now I see well with both eyes open but if I cover my left I keep watching the straight lines a little undulating although I no longer have the feeling of seeing through a glass and I do not know if it is because my brain has already become accustomed to seeingSo or if edema has decreased.
I still have a puncture and then on July 11 I have the review, to see what they tell me then.

Man you will have improved insurance this treatment has very good results, that has told me.You will tell me, I have the injection on July 4, I will tell you.

Hello, today I was in the retina specialist and this is what he told me.I leave it for those who have asked me privately and in case you can help someone, @"krrs" for example.
Macular edema is something chronic so it has no cure so the injections with injections is for life.During the first year they put you for five months one each month and during the next months until the injection arrives a year is every two or more, depending on how edema has decreased.Then, depending on how the eye has responded to treatment, the treatment will be more spaced over time.In some cases they resort to the laser as a complementary help but apparently this technique is increasingly used as regards retinopathy.
On the other hand, if you are pregnant or are thinking about getting pregnant, during pregnancy mese and during breastfeeding you cannot follow the treatment so this would make edema probably increase.So nothing, I have been a little plof because I did not imagine that this was forever but it is what there is, I have nothing left to resign myself and continue taking care of me so that they have to prick me as little as possible and to continue maintaining theAnother eye in perfect condition.
Greetings to everyone and happy summer.

Hello @"nigiri" I am surprised that they have told you that, it is not that I understand this, perhaps @"ophthalmologo" can clarify us but they have not told me this, it is more once I end the injections will make me laser andOnce everything is stable, I have a free way to get pregnant, I don't know ...

Of course @"KRRS" is not that you cannot get pregnant, it is that during pregnancy we cannot receive the specific treatment for macular edemas so in my case, it has recommended that I expect to finish the complete treatment of one year.
On the other hand, I suppose that your endocrine will have told you that during pregnancy both the kingdoms and edemas tend to get worse.

Of course, but they have never told me to be chronic, I suppose it will depend on the case.What several specialists have told me is that in pregnancy it can get worse and then return to the state before staying.Have you already finished?Is it gone?

Well, it's chronic @"krrs", they told me that from day one, what I did not understand is the treatment, I thought that at most five injections but no, the injections are for life only than much more spacedThat now.If I stop pricking the edema reappears again.
I have not finished and as I said before, this is already forever.Now I have to prick in August and September, rest October, they reviewed me in November and if everything has gone well they punctuate me again in November and then in February, at two months again review and there are already two options, orWell continue with the treatment every x months (this depends on how edema is) or if I start trying to get pregnant, stop the treatment until it gives birth (in the hypothetical case that happened).
Regarding whether edema has gone?Well, practically, there is a very small cyst, but it seems that if you stop clicking in the months it reappears that if I am not mistaken @"ophthalmologo" this already said it once.

Good morning: As I have already mentioned, I have stopped receiving your comments on Facebook and only some of the email, and so far I have not opened the last ones.
I think I should start by explaining slightly that it is a macular edema.The retina is to the eye what the photographic reel or the current card, to the photo cameras.Without it, the eye serves us little.And within the retina, the macula is the most important part, in reality it is the only one that sees clearly, with an absolutely differentiated structure from the rest of the retina, since due to its high specialization, it cannot have the same as the restof the retina.In diabetes, primary lesion is the affectation of small blood vessels (microangoipatía).That is why the organs most affected by the disease are eye, kidney and brain, in that order, which is where the smallest blood vessels of our body are located.The macula has no glasses, to allow its special function, so, in theory, it could be out of the problem, but in reality it is not.Although it is not known with certainty, macular edema is produced by continuity from adjacent pathologies, or by, and this is a relatively recent discovery, by the action of the VDGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), present in eyes with RD.
Traditionally, the RD has been treated by argon laser trying to stop the negative evolution of retinal lesions, and closely monitoring the macular area to, at the time the first injuries are detected, establish a barrier with laser impacts around themacula to prevent displacement edema.What cannot be done under any circumstances and at any time of the evolution of the disease, is to deal with the affected macular area.Once it is, only the injections that are putting, repeatedly and in principle, for the rest of your life, since this treatment does not act against the problem but against the consequences of the problem.That is, if there is a substance such as VDGF, we will inject a drug (Anti -EGF, Avastin, Lucentis, or any other) to eliminate this presence.But the cause of the appearance of the VEGF persists so that every time edema is reactivated, it will have to be inject again.
In my experience, treating with laser the lesions that appear in the retina, the macular edema does not occur, or its appearance, it is greatly delayed, so I always advise two things: detect as soon as possible the first signs of RD and not underestimate them, and treat them with laser before their negative evolution, which is absolutely inevitable, becomes an absolutely intractable problem.For the first, AFG is necessary, and for the second, having very clear things and knowing what will happen in the future.
Finally, that the laser is a "technique that is increasingly used in terms of retinopathy", which is preparing the eleven

@"Ophthalmologo" First, thank you very much for your help, I understand that with angiography you can detect an edema before its appearance?In my case it was not so, how can it be?And then my retinologist has told me that my treatment is 5 injections and then laser, it has not been pre -written for anything else?

Yes, it can be.When there is edema, the laser is impossible.Once the edema is resolved even if it is temporarily, until it is reproduced, the laser is possible

And always reproduce?No option?

Hello, I have nothing against social security doctors, but seeing that I was with intense hemorrhage in the right eye for more than six months and the operation came every month because I didn't see anything and they said it was fine that I couldwait.And when they definitely operate retina detuven or know how much and because a resident doctor sees me but perhaps my eye had fallen.
Well, some time ago I have decided to look for a second opinion and what they tell me contrast.
I go once a year to the IMO clinic in Barcelona and the truth is that very well if you look at it is relatively cheap compared to what health is worth.Dr. Mateo attends me who is a retina specialist.I know people who go and are great.And that they have saved his eyes while in Social Security they were told that nothing could be done.I tell you because I see so many opinions differences.
All the best

Well, I'm from Sabadell I will go to me the same, too many opinions and all different: -s

The IMO seems to me a very valid option, and Dr. Mateo, a reference

And in Madrid you can recommend any?@"ophthalmologist"

Prof. Fernandez Vigo

@"KRRS" How do you carry your eye?

@"Nigiri" Well, they have already put 3 injections and at the end of the month I will review to see how, in principle would be the finished treatment and you?

@krrs I just put the fifth and I have a review next month another puncture in December and another in February and then they will be spied, the treatment is for life, if not, the edema would come out again.