Eye drained to prevent increased eye pressure

Yes, mine was 31. It never went that high again. I know it took 3 days for vision to clear. How high was yours? These shots for macular degen caused the high pressure. Now I have cataracts from them the injections.

My glaucoma- eye pressure would go up extremely high even though I was on several glaucoma drops. My pressure would go up to low 50’s and high 40’s. I had uncontrolled glaucoma for several years in spite of being medication compliant. What made a tremendous change in my life was getting a surgery that helps drain out the liquid that creates the high eye pressure. That was about 2 years ago and my pressure has remained stable at a very safe zone. I never had pressure drained but would recommend discussing this procedure.

I wish I did it sooner as by the time I had it done I already lost some of my peripheral vision in that eye- will not get that back…and unfortunately I lost my vision on my other eye due to unrelated ocular issues. Wishing you the best!

Has anyone used Miebo drops?

Yes. I was on a few different eye drops to treat Cystoid Macular Edema / Epiretinal Membrane. I was on prednisone, bromfenac and latanoprost drops, and they were not having any effect, so the retina specialist recommended injecting Avastin.
The first Avastin injection went OK without any incident. I didn't feel any difference in the vision, but a week after the injection I had a six month followup appointment with my cataract surgeon and he said my eye pressure in that eye is high at 32. He asked me what happened and I told him about the Avastin injection. He prescribe another eye drops called brimonidine/timolol and wants me to go back in 2 days after using that, and two days later my pressure went back down to 14. He told me to let the retinal specialist know about the high pressure. So a month later at the retinal specialist appointment I told him a month after the injection my eye pressure was at 32. He said that has nothing to do with the injection, but he said we will prove it to you, right now your pressure is 12, and let me inject Avastin again, and we will test your pressure after. So after the injection they waited 5 minutes and an assistant tested my pressure, she jumped up and ran out and yell for the doctor to come into the room and said my pressure was at 59! The doctor immediately told me that he needs to perform an immediate procedure to relieve the high pressure and he basically inserted a needle into my eye to draw out some fluids. The procedure was called Paracentesis. After the procedure the doctor told me to stop using prednisone because he thinks prednisone is the reason my pressure shot up and not the injection.

@miamicuse1960
From what I have been told and experienced, steroid induced high IOP reacts to steroids. I don't think it would be 14 and a few minutes later shoot up to 60. The eye might have reacted to the trauma of the injection with raising IOP???

I have you beat on numbers. I was 60, then 50 then 40 when we were trying different ways to use steroids with glaucoma drugs. I lost that fight for sight and the eyesight is awful. They were able to get my IOP down with osmoglyn, a high osmolatity and diuretic that you drink. It took 40 minutes for it to go below 30.

@breakstay
Do you know what kind of surgery you had? Was it a second drain, a stent in your drain or laser treatment to open the drain or something else? I have really bad steroid induced IOP. The doctors say nothing will fix it. I need the steroids to fix my vision, but they jack up the IOP really bad. Told I can't have cataract surgery on the other eye ever because of this.