Posts Tagged ‘Intravitreal triamcinolone (IVT)’
Finally She Got The IVT
After two times rescheduling, finally my mom had the IVT injection on Friday morning. It was a quick procedure, only took about two hours. She was scheduled at 8:30 AM and we had to be there by 8.
My mom was at a good condition so there was no pre-treatment before the injection. Unlike when she had lucentis injection, her blood pressure was high at the time and took almost 4 hours for the anesthetic just to lower it. This time her blood pressure reading was 130/80 which was considered “normal” in my mom’s case. At 10:30 AM she was already released from OR.
On Saturday morning, the next day, we came back to the hospital for checkup. Her ophthalmologist said so far the IVT worked fine. The increase of intraocular pressure (IOP) as the side effect of IVT didn’t occur on my mom’s eye. Her tonometry test result showed 11 mmHg which still in the normal range of IOP.
She was scheduled to have another checkup on Thursday morning to see the progress. Hope everything would turn out fine.
Appointement Rescheduled
As mentioned on previous post my mom was scheduled to get an Intravitreal triamcinolone (IVT) injection on Wednesday afternoon but had to cancel it as my mom was not feeling well. She got stomach ache since Tuesday night and couldn’t sleep because of that. So we called the hospital in the morning to reschedule the appointment. The next appointment would be tomorrow afternoon.
I don’t understand why all of a sudden she got stomach ache that night. She didn’t eat anything unusual during the day. My brother said she probably just nervous for getting the injection the next day. He could be right. Hopefully, she can make it tomorrow.
Triamcinolone Injection For My Mom
We went to my mom’s ophthalmologist last Friday to check her eye’s condition. She wasn’t supposed to meet her ophthalmologist until next month but lately she’s been complaining that her vision became blurry again especially when she tried to read so we decided to make an appointment immediately.
The doctor said there was a swelling around my mom’s eye as a sign of Cystoid Macular Edema (CME) so he sent her to CDC room to get an OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) test to make sure. However, somehow they couldn’t perform the OCT test so the doctor used ultrasound instead. Here’s the result.
His doctor then proposed an Intravitreal triamcinolone (IVT) injection as treatment to reduce the edema. He explained several possible causes of CME and the side effects of IVT. He also recommended some further tests to find out the exact cause of my mom’s macular edema such as hematology and TORCH test, thorax x-ray and dental checkup (in case she has tooth cavity).
The injection is scheduled on Wednesday at 2PM but we have to be there by 1PM as we will have further discussion about the procedure. Hopefully the IVT procedure can help to improve her vision.
Finally, A Corneal Transplant For My Mom!
For the last two years my mom has been through several procedures to restore her sight. Started with cataract and glaucoma surgery (Aug ’08), YAG laser capsulotomy her POC treatment (May ’09), Lucentis Injection for AMD treatment (Sept ’09), and Intravitreal triamcinolone (IVT) injection for her CME treatment (Jan ’10). All of the procedures were done on one eye only, her left eye.
Until last week when she had her regular checkup, the option of corneal transplant was discussed again and yesterday we were informed that an eye donation was available for her. The doctor then asked if my mom wanted to proceed with the transplantation. She agreed, so yesterday evening she had a complete examination prior the surgery. She had an ultrasound scan on her right eye, hematology test and EKG monitor. We went home late last night.