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Time will tell your final result but your cataract and retinal surgeon can give you an idea of what your macula looks like. There are also several reasons why your intraocular pressure (IOP) may be up: inflammation in the eye, a pressure reaction to the steroid eye drops you probably are on would be the most common. There are some things related to the cataract surgery that might be the cause (that would be a better thing) such as swelling of the macula (cystoid macular edema), cloudiness of the capsule behind the implant, swelling of the cornea. If this is the cause you may not achieve the type of vision you had before the retina detached and the cataract developed. You will need to get this clarified by your cataract and retinal surgeon. If you had a 8 X 11 photograph and you took it and crumpled it up to the size of a lemon, then you laid it down and tried to smooth it out you could never make it completely back to normal and remove every crease and/or wrinkle. When the retina detaches, especially if the macula is pulled off ("macula off retinal detachment") even if the retina is successfully reattached the retina and macula do not go back to mormal. The most likely cause of the wavyness would be damage to the macula from the retinal detachment. Hello Arlene, Sorry, you've had a rough year. ( yes I know its different parts of the eye.but there just had to be some connection).
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Hx severe recurrent uveitis-at least half dozen times in a year.just in the retinal tear left eye-which stopped and never came back after the cataract surgery. Hx of posterior subcapsular cataracts w surgery/lens about 9 yrs ago. I had what looked like a sideways jellyfish in just the edge of my vision, the surgery was the next am. They scratched the cornea on the nonsurgical eye during the procedure and I think that makes them extremely careful what they say. What I'm looking for is when would be the time to start really worrying about it. The eye stays closed unless its very dark and then only opens now and then half way. Mine does fairly well with 99 questions but the one thing I'm not really finding is.how long on average does it usually take before the eye wants to stay open after retinal tear surgery? What mechanism makes it just stay shut like that? (try googling for that stuff.) That answer about the drooping eyelid is worrying me. I'm an RN, my doctors seem to often tend toward vague answers. I was getting rather worried about the eye still being red.and seeing others state the same is a relief. The answers here have been very helpful, even better than Medscape.