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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Yep, shots worked.

Have retinopathy. Where the blood veins in the retina swell and leak. Where they leak causes floaters and new blood veins grow reducing vision. Also causes the retina to detach and cataracts to grow. At one point was 20/100 in both eyes almost blind. Glasses did not help.

Gave me shots in the eye to reduce the vein swelling and toughen them so they don't leak. Also did laser treatments that stops new veins and is like spot welding my retina to the back of my eye so it does not detach. Did a couple of surgeries to remove the extra blood and did cataract surgery on the right eye. Waiting for the left eye to heal a bit before doing cataract surgery on it.

Vision is now 20/50 left and 20/20 right. They scan my retinas to check for swelling and I get shots based on whether the retinas have swelled any or have an new bleeding.

Was lucky, got on a drug testing program that they paid me $25 per eye per shot instead of me having to pay $1000 per shot. They said there was a 1 in 1000 chance the shots would make me blind. Figured at 20/100 was pretty close to being blind anyway.

Thanks. You & blue wing are giving me some hope. I'm new to this unhappy game. Frankly, I've been pretty down in the dumps over it.