Epiretinal membrane surgery

I will soon be scheduled for surgery on my otherwise healthy eye and I
would like to know how long does it take for the vision to come back
to be at least as good as before the surgery.

Web sites and my doctor give general answers that do not help me. I
need to know because my other eye has no central vision and is useless
for reading. My work requires to read many documents and information
on computer monitors (at client sites where I cannot use magnifying
software). I do contract work with fixed target dates. Changing the
contracts is not an option.

Thank you,
Carlos

I forgot.

I am 60. My corrected vision was 20/30 before it was decreased by the
membrane to 20/70.

Thanks,
Carlos

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 07:39:34 -0500, CarlosWA
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I will soon be scheduled for surgery on my otherwise healthy eye and I
>would like to know how long does it take for the vision to come back
>to be at least as good as before the surgery.
>
>Web sites and my doctor give general answers that do not help me. I
>need to know because my other eye has no central vision and is useless
>for reading. My work requires to read many documents and information
>on computer monitors (at client sites where I cannot use magnifying
>software). I do contract work with fixed target dates. Changing the
>contracts is not an option.
>
>Thank you,
>Carlos

Thank you for your answer. I know that an answer from this group
cannot predict how long it will take for my vision to come back. In
the absence of access to statistical information I was looking for
actual times that has taken for the vision to come back for others who
had an epiretinal membrane removed. As I said in my previous posting
my eye has no other problems. I will be speaking to my surgeon again
on this subject but where I live they are short of time to give
answers or may not want to commit to an expected recovery time. We
have government insurance in Canada. There are very few retina
surgeons and they are overworked. I know my surgeon is excellent for
the actual surgery but otherwise it is not the same service as when
you pay your surgeon.

Carlos

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:20:14 -0500, CarlosWA
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I forgot.
>
>I am 60. My corrected vision was 20/30 before it was decreased by the
>membrane to 20/70.
>
>Thanks,
>Carlos
>
>On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 07:39:34 -0500, CarlosWA
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I will soon be scheduled for surgery on my otherwise healthy eye and I
>>would like to know how long does it take for the vision to come back
>>to be at least as good as before the surgery.
>>
>>Web sites and my doctor give general answers that do not help me. I
>>need to know because my other eye has no central vision and is useless
>>for reading. My work requires to read many documents and information
>>on computer monitors (at client sites where I cannot use magnifying
>>software). I do contract work with fixed target dates. Changing the
>>contracts is not an option.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Carlos

"CarlosWA" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I will soon be scheduled for surgery on my otherwise healthy eye and I
> would like to know how long does it take for the vision to come back
> to be at least as good as before the surgery.
>
> Web sites and my doctor give general answers that do not help me. I
> need to know because my other eye has no central vision and is useless
> for reading. My work requires to read many documents and information
> on computer monitors (at client sites where I cannot use magnifying
> software). I do contract work with fixed target dates. Changing the
> contracts is not an option.

This is a question you need to ask your doctor, as the exact nature of your
problem and what conditions led to the membrane formation determines the
outcome. Having said that, this type of surgery is tricky and outcome
depends upon how your eye responds post surgery and whether there are any
complications during surgery. Your surgeon will not be able to give you an
exact time for recovery, only a general estimate, neither can he know in
advance whether you vision will come back to be as good as it was before the
membrane formed and how long it will take.

Dr Judy

> Thank you,
> Carlos

Thanks to those who replied to my post. Yesterday my surgeon finally
gave me an asnwer. He said that my vision should return to be as good
as it was before the surgey between 2 and 3 weeks after the surgery if
there are no complications. Note that further vision improvement
should take weeks and up to three months.

Carlos

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:17:16 -0500, "Dr Judy"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"CarlosWA" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>>I will soon be scheduled for surgery on my otherwise healthy eye and I
>> would like to know how long does it take for the vision to come back
>> to be at least as good as before the surgery.
>>
>> Web sites and my doctor give general answers that do not help me. I
>> need to know because my other eye has no central vision and is useless
>> for reading. My work requires to read many documents and information
>> on computer monitors (at client sites where I cannot use magnifying
>> software). I do contract work with fixed target dates. Changing the
>> contracts is not an option.
>
>This is a question you need to ask your doctor, as the exact nature of your
>problem and what conditions led to the membrane formation determines the
>outcome. Having said that, this type of surgery is tricky and outcome
>depends upon how your eye responds post surgery and whether there are any
>complications during surgery. Your surgeon will not be able to give you an
>exact time for recovery, only a general estimate, neither can he know in
>advance whether you vision will come back to be as good as it was before the
>membrane formed and how long it will take.
>
>Dr Judy
>
>> Thank you,
>> Carlos
>