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YAG Laser Iridotomy Complications
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I'm so sorry that happened to you. Can you find a glaucoma specialist? It's critical even if you don't have glaucoma. Do you live in the US?
The first opthalmologist said I would go blind if he didn't do the laser iridotomy in one week. Like you my pressures were perfect, eyesight was good, but he claimed I had glaucoma without doing any tests. I started crying on the phone with him literally the next day asking how could he say that, how could he diagnose me with glaucoma, didn't do any of the tests. I was referred to a glaucoma specialist who totally disagreed with him. I have no glaucoma and anatomical narrow angles. I didn't want the iridotomy. I've been seeing her every 3 months for almost one year and nothing has changed. Pressures are around 10 in both eyes.
I think you should get a second opinion with a glaucoma specialist even though you don't have glaucoma. Is your optic nerve still normal? Oh I'm so very sorry this happened to you. But you can move on and try to find a glaucoma specialist? Do you live in the US?
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I do live in US. I have thick corneas so pressure runs 19 at the lowest. They do all the testing every 6 months. No glaucoma. My right pupil is large after surgery and he tried restriction drops 2x that temporarily made it a little smaller. He said he’d never seen this with surgery, only with trauma. 300 laser zaps sounds like trauma to me. Eye is so blurry and tender. It aches. Even when I blink.