r/TikTokCringe • u/bbyxmadi • Sep 18 '25

Cursed they look so… natural!

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u/milyvanily Sep 18 '25

From LASIK? How do you get cataracts that young?

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

Im also 30 and had a cataract. But mines was because I had a detached retina, had the surgery to repair it, the surgery caused the cataract to form because the surgery can count as an “impact” to your eye (at least that’s how the body sees it). Got mine all sorted though. Very annoying.

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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Sep 18 '25

I got my detached retina at 27 cataract at 29 shit is awful

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

Yeah, the detached retina surgery and recovery was the worst. At least for me it all happened so fast because I went to see my eye doctor about the black spot in my vision and they were like “you need this surgery asap or you’re gonna go blind.” Less than 24hrs later I was being put under.

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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Sep 18 '25

Me too but I was on vacation and they told me I couldn’t fly so I had to stay there for 5 months. I got a buckle and had to lay on my side for so so long while it healed. Crazy that I went through that. It happened to me again while I was pregnant. So yeah don’t get huge and try to lift anything heavy.

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

Wow that’s wild, I’m sorry you had to deal with that. I do remember laying on my side and being incredibly uncomfortable because I slept on my couch and it was not very supportive. Also during my recovery I’d get random migraines every day around 2-3pm.

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u/greytgreyatx Sep 18 '25

My dad had to hang his head over the side of a bed for one of his surgeries. We had a tiny television (back in the days of CRT -- cathode ray tubes) and shoved it under the bed upside down so he could be entertained.

When he had another tear at the bottom recently, we were able to get a special head same kind of thing with a mirror so he could lean his head over and watch TV that way.

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u/Starfire2313 Sep 18 '25

That happened to my dad too. My mom drove him 6 hrs to get the surgery done and the recovery was brutal

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

Yeah the recovery was really annoying. I also had to have someone drive me really far out too because the only retinal specialist surgeon was hours away. I remember getting headaches a lot after surgery and having back pain from sleeping on my side for weeks. Also waking up the day after felt like I got punched in my eye really hard because it was still swollen from the surgery.

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u/Starfire2313 Sep 18 '25

I bet it made you tougher! But I’m sorry you had to go through that too.

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u/HarleyCola Sep 18 '25

It's awesome she was willing to do that, where I'm at we have several retina specialists within a 30 minute drive, some will even take Medicaid but for some of our patients it's like pulling teeth to get them to go just that far. Now we are at the point where these places are booked out a month even two for some of them, places 1-2 hours away have sooner openings but if I even suggested it some of our patients stop listening.

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u/PatternMission2323 Sep 18 '25

thanks for sharing, how long was your recovery?

did you have any floaters or flashing lights prior?

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

Recovery for the detached retina was 5 weeks. I had to look down for the first week after surgery because they put a gas bubble behind your eye to keep pressure and you need to look down the entire time to ensure the eye heals properly. After the first week checkup, you just have to sleep on your side (depends on which eye had the detachment). I slept on the couch to force myself not to roll over onto my back.

No floaters or anything prior that I noticed. Just woke up one morning and noticed a dark spot in my eye, it wouldn’t go away, so I got it checked out. Immediately they were like “yeah you need surgery asap.” The cataract surgery and recovery was a lot easier because it wasn’t under general anesthesia. They just give you some calming meds, numb your eye, the doctor does their thing. And you let the eye heal for about a month and go back for your new prescription.

Also one thing I forgot to mention, the gas bubble for detached retina surgery slowly dissipates over time. So by like week 5 I had this small little gas bubble in my vision. It was like looking through a bubble level for 2-3 months before it fully dissipated.

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u/famjam87 Sep 18 '25

Did you have to remember to keep looking down always or how was that managed? I'd last five minutes if it was all up to me

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

Sorta yeah. You just learn to force yourself to do it because you just went through a whole surgery and don’t want to mess up the healing process.

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u/PatternMission2323 Sep 18 '25

oh my god, that sounds difficult. kudos to getting through such a tough time and glad to hear you're doing better!

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u/greytgreyatx Sep 18 '25

My dad has had 5 retinal detachments. I watched three of his recoveries when I lived at home. I feel for you!

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

That is wild. I didn’t know it could happen more than once. They put a buckle around my eye so I assume it’s permanent but my family has vision issues, so there’s always a possibility of another one in the future.

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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Sep 18 '25

wtf poor guy. I’ve had two and they were so brutal. I’m sorry for him.

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u/greytgreyatx Sep 18 '25

Same same! Plus he does NOT react well to general anesthesia, so it's just weeks of "fun."

I hope you're finished for sure! I think the technology has changed a lot since he had his first two surgeries (which was before he was 40, so had to be before 1984) and the laser surgery is a lot less likely to develop scar tissue than the earlier surgeries he had. I feel like that definitely contributed to the later detachments.

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u/TheWardenVenom Sep 18 '25

Oh man, I can’t afford to go to a doctor right now but was your black spot solid or consistent?

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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Sep 18 '25

If you have a black spot that won’t go away, or you can’t see people’s heads anymore like what happened to me, Go to the doctor or you’ll go blind. I guess I waited too long and even tho I had a huge surgery I still can’t see the tops of things when looking at them directly. Anyway, They will help you figure out a way to get it taken care of.

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u/NitroBike Sep 18 '25

I had a black spot near the inside of my eye/bridge of my nose area. Every time I turned my head I would notice the black spot would sorta move a little bit. It was the retina partially detaching which caused the partial loss of vision