Back of eye exam

[secretgirl]

Hi.
I just had an appointment at my opticians where after examining my eyes thoroughly has referred me on to an eye clinic to have the back of one of my eyes examined more thoroughly. She said there was something behind there that was concerning but inactive!
Has anyone ever had this before and what was the outcome?

This probably means they will inject you (in the arm) with a dye and look at the back of your eye on a fancy machine. I had loads of scans like these years ago.

Normally they just give you dilating eye drops and they can see the back of your eyes / retinas more clearly. Didn’t they offer to do this at the opticians? They can usually do this there (I have retinal issues and I am very short sighted, -10 both eyes).

Thanks for the replies. Yes ive had the dilating eye drops before but she didn't do them this time. She was ages looking in with a 'thing'😀.
I'm just a bit anxious and hoping its tissue of some sort and not anything sinister. What was your outcome?

They saw a slight blemish that might be a sign of glaucoma for me and the eye hospital just did a couple of more thorough scans (look at the light through the machine type of thing) like at the optician but I think higher magnification, no further action but they get me back about every 18 months to re-check. Recently they have also found a 'hole' in the macular (unrelated) and again no action unless it gets worse and starts really affecting my vision (VMT it's called, just checked). Joys of getting older.

Thank you chiruppybird

I was found to have lattice degeneration which is fairly common but can cause (even more) risk of retinal detachment than myopia alone and I also had a scar from having contracted toxoplasmosis as a child - that I had no symptoms of or treatment for, and it obviously resolved itself and has left a sort of scar at the back of my retina.

Is it an eye freckle? I had this recently where my optician noticed something at the back of my eye that he described as an eye freckle. I was referred to ophthalmology to get it checked out and was told it’s benign and not active. Have to go back in six months to make sure it’s not grown as a very tiny percentage can turn into melanoma, like 1 in 8000.

OP - I'm an optometrist and it literally could be one of a 100 things.

Unless they're referred you super urgently (ie within a week) it's probably nothing.