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In 2009 I experienced a fairly sudden onset of vitreous detachment in the left eye which produced irregular diffraction-like flare around bright lights, but no significant floaters.
Within a few months I had a ‘vitrectomy and membrane peel’ by an excellent Sydney surgeon (PM me for details) with great results and quick recovery.
It was a fascinating operation: I was conscious of the whole procedure seen in shadow-play, including the extraction of the vitreous and the small snippers cutting the epiretinal membrane that had formed. The vitreous was replaced with ‘expensive water’ and it’s been all good for the past nine years, still with no significant floaters.
Straight lines are still wonky due to permanent distortion of the retina, and the operation did bring on ‘galloping myopia’ (as predicted) which was fixed a couple of years later by routine cataract surgery.
My right eye also now has linear distortion and I have a check-up every six months, but if there’s vitreous detachment it’s not where it causes problems and seems to be pretty stable.
As you say, it’s not that rare a condition, but people still get it mixed up with retinal detachment or macular degeneration.
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