Several doctors online stated it is either a cyst or a water blister, these are common after eye surgery. I will see the doctor tomorrow, which is Friday, February 10, day 13 post operation. Here is the picture.
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Day 13
A water blister or a cyst formed on my scelera, I am seeing the doctor tomorrow afternoon.
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| Day 13 the redness has decreased, my vision has returned almost to normal, however a water blister or cyst has formed on my white part of my eye called the scelera. |
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Day 14
I did see the surgeon today Dr. Jain at Beach Eye Care in Virginia Beach
and he did confirm that this is a cyst on my eye at the 10 o'clock position.
He also removed several sutures to help the progression of healing of the sclera.
He also cut a "skin tag" like tissue on the inside of my lower eyelid caused by the stitches that remained on my eye. The sutures were removed without any numbing medication. He likes the graft that is in place and healing nicely. My eye should look normal in about 2 more weeks.He also cut a "skin tag" like tissue on the inside of my lower eyelid caused by the stitches that remained on my eye. Yes I could feel the sutures being cut and pulled out, but very little pain.He has increased dosage on my Lotemax from 4 times a day to every two hours.
The medication that I am taking still are the following:
Lotemax (1) drop every two hours
Besivance (2) times per day
Refresh Optive Sensitive (Prervative Free) every hour
Neomycin before bedtime.
 Sorry about the coloring of the photo, I took this in a different room. As you can see my cyst is on my eye that formed after surgery at the 10 o'clock position. The redness in my eye has decreased may from the increase of medication combined with the sutures being removed after 14 days. Thanks for visiting my web site.  Day 963 Success! No reoccurrence.
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Hi Patrick. Thank you blogging about your experience. It is very helpful, as I am considering surgery for the same thing! It is now January 2013! How is your eye now? Would you have the surgery all over again if you could go back? I would love to hear from you!
ReplyDeleteMy eyes are perfect, no more redness and I can now look at people without them thinking or saying "hey your eye is red!"
DeleteI have a new picture of my eye 430 post operation on my twitter account @pterygiumhelp
Delete430 days after surgery
DeleteThanks for sharing this information. I'm on day 4 after surgery on my right eye (had my left eye done in 2008, so far successful). I was a little nervous this time around because I had a different surgeon. I'm terrified of this coming back. Like you, I got tired of people saying, "your eye is red." I mean really, it was embarrassing and I could hardly look people in the eye this last year. After a while I started tilting my head a certain way in pictures so the pterygium wouldn't show. I pray this thing doesn't come back. I don't even like sitting by windows in restaurants and hate it when colleagues I go to lunch want to sit in the patio areas of restaurants. Anyway, thanks again for posting this info.
ReplyDeleteHow is your eye today?
DeleteYour welcome, it will be a brand new you! Keep wearing your shades outside. I have a picture of my eye at 430 days post operation on my twitter account @pterygiumhelp
DeleteI remember moving my head a certain way in pictures where it wouldn't show up as bad.
Deletehi patrick,
ReplyDeletethanks for this blog! i just had my surgery and i'm on day 7 of my recovery. i'm optimistic for my own recovery after seeing how great your eye looks and no reoccurrence.
regarding the cyst/blister, is that normal and how long does it last? i have a couple of blisters on the area that was operated on and i'm worried because it's extremely red. i have no pain at all, but the redness worries me.
thanks!
My surgeon popped them post surgery about 3 days after surgery
DeleteI had blisters, my doctor said they were common in this type of surgery, my doctor stated that the eye will dissolve the blister itself or a simple removal from doctor during one office visit. No worries.
ReplyDeleteIt's been nearly two months following my surgery. Early on I developed a blister. My doctor said it commonly happens. He applied numbing drops to the eye and pierced the blister. He said it would normally go away on it's own in a few months. Three weeks later I moved to Italy. Now the blister is back larger than before. Not sure if I should be concerned or hope that it goes away on it's own as he said. It's seems to be growing in size.
ReplyDeleteI would like to add that at this point I wish I never had the surgery. My eye looks worse now then when I had the pterygium. It's terribly red and I feel pressure from the blister.
DeleteHi Patrick
ReplyDeleteI have 2 pingueculas in my both eyes. They are still small but I'm so worried at the same time feeling so anxious about these. How long does your pinguecula before getting bigger?
I'm so depressed and don't know what to do. If I should come back to the eye doctor or not. Seems like no other way on how to prevent these.
ReplyDeleteI know how you are feeling. I have got Pterygium in my right eye, I am sure it is developing in my other eye too. :( I am seeing an eye specialist soon. I want the surgery to remove the Pteryguim in my right eye.
DeleteHi Patrick,
ReplyDeleteI wanted to know, If you are still cure and no sign of regrowth. Nearly two years since you had the operation. Not sure If you are still continue your blog. Love to hear from your update.
Thanks
I am 963 post operation, I do not have any reoccurrence of signs of pterygium. I just posted a picture of me today.
DeleteThanks so much for posting about your experience! There is not a lot of information out there about pterygiums in general, let alone the surgery and recovery experience. I'm at day 13 after surgery. The first 4 days were awful (I had graft with sutures) and then slowly started to improve. My eye was very watery at first and extremely sensitive to light (still is somewhat).
ReplyDeleteMy eye has "evolved" so to speak after surgery, meaning that it looks different almost every day. A small section near the graft will raise up and be irritated one day, then it will calm down and another section will start to revolt. My doctor tells me this is part of the normal healing process (he has been very patient with my phone calls!). I'm trying to be patient and know that it will be several weeks before it will be completely healed.
Thanks again for posting and providing this resource for folks like me!