About five months ago, I discovered that I had Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO). Initially, I was shocked, I’m only 33 years old and have never had any significant health issues or symptoms. The CRVO was detected during my routine annual eye check-up, which I follow diligently. It only became evident when I closed my healthy eye, and my doctor then recommended I check for diabetes. I underwent the test, and my HbA1c was 5.4, confirming that I do not have diabetes.
To be thorough, I also ran some additional tests on my own, including CBC, cholesterol, serum creatinine, and SGPT all of which came back normal. I do not experience any fatigue or other health problems,this condition appeared suddenly and without warning.Reflecting on recent events, I recall having a brief episode of diarrhea lasting 2–3 days, caused by food that did not agree with me it was about six months ago before I found out about crvo.I went on a holiday where I climbed a mountain, sometimes running to keep pace, which involved considerable physical exertion.
Sometimes it feels that could be the trigger but then i started finding reasons what else it could be i had been using topical minoxidil as well once in a day for the past 7 years 4-5 times a week for hair maintenance sometimes used to leave for a week. when I searched about it everything went like it is extremely rare so after searching enough I would say I would never find an exact cause so it is better to focus on treatment. I took my first injection ranibizumab immediately after finding, that moment my central thickness in OCT was 719 it went down to 419 then i after a month I took second injection it went further down to 340 then I took third injection after one month and checked my OCT 42 days later of third injection it went up to 690. I was surprised how it can go up suddenly but then i went to some other doctor and there i was given another ranibizumab which did not reduce much swelling there was only 20 points reduction in swelling. i thought I must have done something wrong like lifting or doing something aggressively, but when I searched about reoccur I came to know it is normal there can be reoccurence. it flactuates. my mind still says how it can go up by seeing excellent reduction in first two injections. now I have taken eylea which is my 5th injection and it has been 15 days. Progress if I talk about when I found out about 5 months ago my vision was 6/24 and believe me everything was blurry and these grey patches were everywhere. Now although swelling is still around but vision is currently 6/18 before eylea. 650 central thickness still there but I can see colour and i can walk easily and what i noticed is when I go close to any object it feels normal vision to me. I would love to discuss more about it how things will go further from here and I am very concerned.