Help! Calm my anxiety?
I was diagnosed with lattice degeneration in both my eyes last year. My retina specialist told me I would probably never have any issues in my life. One year later I go and he says that the lattice has progressed and I have a hole with fluid. He told me he was going to wait to do the surgery till July however I told him I can't live in that state of anxiety. I was so afraid my retina was going to detach in that amount of time especially if fluid is getting in.
My surgery is next Monday. It's a laser procedure to basically prevent the lattice from tearing or anything in the future. He told me not to even think of it as surgery because it's really not. They are putting me under anesthesia just because it's both my eyes and I have very very very high anxiety
I have never been under anesthesia before so that itself is very scary to me. And I'm just so afraid of this procedure. He says that I can return to work the next day. He says that I'm going to wake up and I'm going to be fine like nothing happened. I've asked him a million questions like if I'm going to go blind or experience any other horrible symptoms
Can you please share positive stories about laser procedures that you've undergone?