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Full History - 2017 - 01 - 16 - ID#5oavk5
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Introduction Thread (self.Blind)
submitted by BlindMan94
Hi all, I was thinking that its been a while since there's been an introductory thread here, and as I'd love to get to know more of you, I was wondering: where are you from, what is your age and gender, and what condition do you suffer from if you suffer from a particular condition? I'm 22, male and Australian, and was both with cataracts. While I got them removed before they took all my sight, they still took most of it, sadly. I also suffer from micropthalmia and nystagmus, which have made it harder to treat.
whileonecode 2 points 6y ago
38, female, southern(ish) US, legally blind, mom to a teenager, software engineer who works from home.

I was born 2mo premature and developed severe ROP. I've been completely blind in my left eye since birth (had it removed when I was 17) and my vision in my right's extremely myopic; around 20/200, and I have a very narrow visual field. I also have severe nystagmus.

My ROP has been stable since birth, but I did develop angle closure glaucoma back in 2008 and had to have a surgical iridectomy for that after two failed laser iridotomies. This caused a small cataract I'd had since birth to start getting worse, and in December of 2011 I had cataract surgery, followed by an anterior capsulotomy in August 2012 (it started to re-grow!) and a posterior capsulotomy in November of 2015. Somewhere along the line in treating the cataracts and the glaucoma, I also developed posterior vitreous detachment, but it hasn't affected anything, just another tic mark on the list of things that already put me at a high risk of retina detachment. - So far, so good, though!
Marconius 2 points 6y ago
Hi there, I live in San Francisco, male, and am 32. I lost my vision suddenly a little over two years ago due to medical complications from surgery, retinal arterial occlusion. Had bilateral retinoblastoma when I was a baby and lost my left eye to that when I was 2. The surgery I was having a few years ago was to help with vision problems stemming from long-term side effects from the radiation I had to kill the cancer back in the 80s.
blindambition- 1 points 6y ago
Hey everyone!
I'm a 25 year old female from Canada. I have Usher Syndrome II, a form of deaf blindness characterized by moderate hearing loss at birth, which is stable and largely corrected with hearing aids, and RP that started in my early teens.
Namrakk 1 points 6y ago
Howdy. 25 y/o male with Cone-Rod Dystrophy & RP; severe visual loss/legally blind; unemployed attorney.
Vaelian 1 points 6y ago
I'm 34, male, Portuguese, and went blind 3 years ago due to a congenital glaucoma.
GuideDogAndHisQueer 1 points 6y ago
Hi I am Alun(gaelic for Alan)I live in Coldstream Scottish Borders. I was born with gluecoma and keratoconus and developed cataracts in my teens. I have had the surgery but have had very low vision for a while now. I am registered blind. I think our registration is different in the UK. We have partially sighted or blind.
k00l_m00se 1 points 6y ago
Howdy, I'm Jack, a legally blind bordering on totally blind seventeen year old. Been this way for a little over a year. Visual Snow and other potential unknown factors caused this, so I'm kinda stuck with no treatment and no timeline of what to expect and when
KillerLag 1 points 6y ago
From Toronto, and am male. Currently have most of my vision, but genetically pre-disposed to two different eye conditions (degenerative myopia and galucoma) and have a medical condition that makes me likely to have a different eye condition in the future (DR), and that isn't even counting Mac Degen. :S
Nighthawk321 1 points 6y ago
18/m here. I was blinded from a gunshot. BTW, but you can set your eye condition in your flair.
Vaelian 1 points 6y ago
How do you set user flare? It took me 2 years after going blind to return to reddit and flare didn't exist before I left so I have absolutely no mental image of where the option to add flare might be.
TurtleKnife 1 points 6y ago
I am a 19 year old male. My eye condition is called retinopathy of prematurity which I've had since I was born.
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