Question 1

what is the definition or description of: retinal disorders?

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Retinal disorders: Retina =  layer of tissue at the back of the eye which contains light sensitive cells.  Damage to retina may cause blindness.

Question 2

can problems with your vision and retinal disorders cause depression?

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Vision &depression: Possible, due to low esteem from self image issues, or could relate to medications taken for vision defects

Question 3

what is a retinal disorder?

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Back of the eye...: A retinal disorder is a disease which reduces vision in the light sensitive layer on the back of the eye.  This is analogous to the film in a camera.

Question 4

what are the symptoms of a retinal disorder?

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Varied: Detachments: flashing lights, floaters, loss of side vision.  Macular degeneration: distortion and loss of central vision.  Macular edema: blurring and small object size.

Question 5

what are common signs and causes of retinal detachments?

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Flashes floater veil: Vitreous separation & traction on the retina causes retinal tears-causing vitreous floaters & hazy vision.  Laser helps to prevent the tear from progressing to a retinal detachment as fluid flows though untreated tears and the retina falls off the back of your eye-like wallpaper coming off a wall.  This causes a veil in your side vision then central vision loss.  It is painless.

Question 6

what is a likely sign that i have a retinal tear?

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Flashes and floaters: The warning signs for a retinal tear are flashes of light (like a streak of lightening) and a sudden increase in floaters.  This needs to be checked as tears are, relatively, easily treated, retinal detachments are much more involved.  Untreated tears can become detachments.

Question 7

what are the visual signs of someone with a detached retina?

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See below: Floaters in your vision and/or flashing lights in your vision and/or part of the peripheral vision missing (like a curtain or veil). See an ophthalmologist, preferably a retina specialist, immediately.

Question 8

is a branch retinal vein occlusion could be a sign of ms ?

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Don't think so: Optic neuritis is typically associated with ms.  Brvo is associated with hypertension, or certain blood clotting disorders, depending on your age.

Question 9

what to do about retinal detachment coloboma retinal dysplasia norries disease how to distinguish?

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Retinal disorders: are voluminous and would take pages to list and volumes to describe. In general though, they can be broken up by age, etiology (cause) and which portion of the retina they can affect. Each of the conditions you listed require a different approach and more importantly urgency in diagnosis and/or treatment. Please see your retina specialist who can distinguish these conditions of you.

Question 10

have reviewed thrice in the last 5 months with my retina doc for my lattice.observed no change since the first time, though there's traction.good sign?

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Traction is normal: Lattice degeneration is a thinning of the peripheral retina from the vitreous gel "pulling" on the retina with a distinctive whitening of the retinal blood vessels.  This forms an oval or round patch of "lattice" white blood vessels and a thinned retina.  Lattice can be associated with round retinal holes from the thinning and retinal tears at the edge-this can result in retinal detachment.

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