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YAG Laser Iridotomy Complications

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@jigglejaws94, Thank you for sharing your experiences with @jennyone, it’s so nice to have someone who is familiar with a similar situation to help guide or bounce ideas off.

@jigglejaws94, how did your surgery go?

@jennyone, did you decide if you were going to go through with the procedure?

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After a lot of research and back and forth emailing with Ian Connor MD -- I decided to request a temporal iridotomy on my left eye. My doctor, Dr. Edwards was very fine with that. He had just been to an ophthalmology conference in Chicago and said it is still very much a controversial topic. There are definitely two camps. Anyway, he did do the temporal position. I did not experience any immediate dysphotopsia this time and got on top of the inflammation quicker with additional use of the steroid drops. Next day -- I started noticing that I did have some extra light coming into that eye -- more like a vertical "hunk" or "chunk" of light -- especially noticeable with bright light coming from the left side. It has been a week and this has bothered me less. I am hoping that it improves completely. I still have the more horizontal dysphotopsia on the right side which waxes and wanes, depending on the lighting. So there you have it -- I have an iridotomy, one each of the two positions -- and have some issue with both. I certainly could have worse vision and more problems than I do from the procedures-- so I am thankful. I am also just relieved to stop researching, thinking and spending so much time thinking about what to do about the iridotomy. All done! I will return in two weeks for a dilated exam. Thanks for asking about me.