in my experience having had lattice deterioration that led to a detached retina and doctors scolding me for being insufficiently paranoid: the way they describe a detaching retina wasn't evocative to me of what I experienced. If you have a day where you think "bah, these floaters are really bad" or "this migraine aura sucks" or "do I have vaseline on my glasses? ugh I have to keep cleaning them" then go ahead and call.
Then the follow up consisted of a multiyear repeated conversation with the ophthalmologist:
10
O: "okay, looks good, call us if anything is strange!"
Me, two months later, with weird light artifacts everywhere: "Hi something is strange!"
O: "Nope, you're all good, that's just a massive floater. Call us if something is strange!"
Me: "Uh okay?"
GOTO 10
anyway tl;dr don't be afraid of calling them if anything looks weird, I really thought mine was a big floater or strange aura.
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in my experience having had lattice deterioration that led to a detached retina and doctors scolding me for being insufficiently paranoid: the way they describe a detaching retina wasn't evocative to me of what I experienced. If you have a day where you think "bah, these floaters are really bad" or "this migraine aura sucks" or "do I have vaseline on my glasses? ugh I have to keep cleaning them" then go ahead and call.
Then the follow up consisted of a multiyear repeated conversation with the ophthalmologist:
10O: "okay, looks good, call us if anything is strange!"
Me, two months later, with weird light artifacts everywhere: "Hi something is strange!"
O: "Nope, you're all good, that's just a massive floater. Call us if something is strange!"
Me: "Uh okay?"
GOTO 10anyway tl;dr don't be afraid of calling them if anything looks weird, I really thought mine was a big floater or strange aura.