Eagle

Did Kennalog Steroid Injections helps bring the swelling down with your edema. I have the same thing and I am being treated at Kresge Eye Institute with pred forte and acular eye drops. If the swelling does not go down (I've had it all year) then I am thinking they may do the injections. Seems like it should have went down by now, even though I have read and have been told that it takes a long time to resolve itself, but evenually it usually does. I am beginning to run out of patience.

Sharon

[QUOTE=Dancinboots;3171181]Eagle

Did Kennalog Steroid Injections helps bring the swelling down with your edema. I have the same thing and I am being treated at Kresge Eye Institute with pred forte and acular eye drops. If the swelling does not go down (I've had it all year) then I am thinking they may do the injections. Seems like it should have went down by now, even though I have read and have been told that it takes a long time to resolve itself, but evenually it usually does. I am beginning to run out of patience.

Sharon

Yes, the Kennalog worked beautifully for me. The Pred Forte and Acular and another kind of drops I forget the name of are used at cataract surgery time, before and after, everyone.

I don't THINK they're for macular edema at all! But what do I know?

We're under a severe thunderstorm watch, as you know, Dancin', being in my area, so I'm hurrying. Good luck.

Hi Eagle

How long did you have the swelling? Did they try any other treatments for the swelling before they did the injection?

Dr.A at Kresge has me on the pred forte and acular because they are for reducing swelling due to the edema. So far I don't think the drops are working. I go back downtown on Monday .

I also had a cataract removed in July and was using the predforte after that. All this year I have been using acular 4 times a day and then after cataract surgery Dr. A told me to continue taking acular and also the predforte drops 4 times a day. I don't know what the next step will be. Maybe the injections.

Because of the swelling I did not experience the elated feeling of seeing wonderfully after the cataract was removed. If and when they get the swelling down, hopefully vision will improve. I can see out of right eye but details are not real clear, since the edema effects your central vision. How long after you had the injection did the swelling go down and your vision improve?

Sharon:rolleyes:

I will have to question them on Monday concerning the drops. If you read what acular and pred forte is used for you will find that it is to help with swelling in the eye. That's what I have been told all along that the drops were to help the swelling go down.

Did your vision improve immediately after the kennalog injections took the swelling down?:confused:

Hi

When I went on Monday I was told vision had ever so slighty improved. I think I told you that last October I had vitrectomy surgery which is a membrane peel. What I had was called epiretinal membrane which is a wrinkled macula which causes distorted vision. It has been explained to me it's like having cellophane over your macula.

I also still have the swelling from the cystoid macular edema. Dr. A told me at the beginning of the summer that he still detected some of that membrane still on my eye. He said I had multi layers of thick membrane ( one of the thickest he has seen..just my luck!) and there is still some there.

The membrane is still the problem that is causing the swelling to be so stubborn going down. He gave me 2 choices (1) just watch it for a while, although he doesn't think it will resolve on it's own) or (2) do another vitrectomy to get the rest of the membrane. There is a dye they are waiting for that should be available to them soon. Here's what I found out about it online: Trypon blue and tracyanine green dye for staining macula for better visualization for eperetinal membrane. And then it goes on to say colorizing tissue aids in easier visualizing of membrane and also judging completness of peeled membrane.

Dr. A still sticks to his opinion that once the entire membrane is removed it should gives me significant improvement in vision, although he said that it may not be as good as left eye being that it has been going on for a long time. I am willing to take that chance with another surgery ( out patient) as long he he thinks it will help. Using the dye that they are waiting on he tells me will allow him to be able to absolutely get every bit of the membrane removed.

For now he wants to keep taking the acular and pred forte 2 times and day and come back to see him in 3 months. He said he could call when the dye is available which they are expecting soon. I don't know about you, but if I need to get something done that I'm not looking forward to, I want it done as soon as possible. I want closure as I am sure you do also.

Don't be afraid to ever get a second opinion. Who cares what "they" think. It's your eyes and your problem and you deserve to talk to someone to clarify you questions. I had that same test as you had at the place where you go. Could you call and ask someone there how often the test is repeated? Keep me posted.

Sharon