PVD--Posterior Vitreous detachment

[Rockrat]

Just been diagnosed with this and wondering if anyone else had dealt with this? How did it affect your shooting? Did you have to lay off for awhile or restrict what you shoot?
Can I shoot 22 lr and maybe up to 308? Leave the 45-70 and 12ga in the safe? How about pistol shooting??
Thanks

[jeepnik]

The correct answer is what did the doctor say. And if there is a chance of permanent damage don't shoot anything until it heals.

[Rockrat]

Doc didn't say anything. My fault, should have asked though

[samsi]

Not uncommon, it happens to most of us near-sighted folks as we age. When mine happened I don't recall being told to avoid anything, but the floaters made sighting anything difficult so I didn't do any shooting until those moderated some. In severe cases they'll do a vitreous fluid procedure if the floaters are bad enough that they don't go away.

[jeepnik]

Doc didn't say anything. My fault, should have asked though

And that's why we have cell phones.

[Old No7]

Not uncommon, it happens to most of us near-sighted folks as we age. When mine happened I don't recall being told to avoid anything, but the floaters made sighting anything difficult so I didn't do any shooting until those moderated some. In severe cases they'll do a vitreous fluid procedure if the floaters are bad enough that they don't go away.

Call the Doc, sure, but let it heal and/or settle down for awhile. In my case, the few floaters I had leftover didn't get taken care of until years later when a retina detachment occurred after cataract surgery.

Old No7

[AJMD429]

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Mine was precipitated by bonking myself in the forehead with a T-post pounder, then the other side followed a year later with no specific provocation.

Strobe-light like effect with rapid eye movements, laterally. Didn't affect shooting, but a new 'grape-wreath' type floater that is typical of the vitreous detachment appeared in each eye afterwards. Noticeable only when looking at a blank light surface - sky or most bothersome for me - a microscope field. Not an issue with handgun or rifle shooting regardless of sight type.

Recoil to the shoulder (handguns would be ok) was to be avoided for awhile, lest the problem extend into a retinal detachment, which had ALSO started (and they tacked that down with some laser blasts). But I've not shot much heavy-recoil rifles anyway - probably the biggest recoil is my 500 S&W BHA89 or my 375 Ruger Alaskan, and neither of those seems to me bothersome. I'd not want to shoot a 458 Winchester or Lott or 460 Weatherby though (but I'd not want to shoot any of those even before the detach).

My wife is no longer allowed to hit me in the head though....

[Rockrat]

So, light loads for my 458 win I guess!!! Kind of a spider web effect around the Weiss ring, but 75% of the spider web is gone after a week, but ring still there. Did "bonk" my head on the tail boom of an Aircraft but that was at least a week before and t-boned a guy last year when he came flying out of a mobile home park without looking for traffic, which might have had something to do with it. Just woke up one morning and it was there. Did drive up in the mountains two weeks ago with about a 4000 ft. elevation change.
Just annoying as anything.

[remshooter]

I just got PVD last month , got the floaters and flashes.It started 4 days after shooting 9 rounds thru my 12 gauge high brass #5 squirrel shot no less .go figuire.At least i dont think the 22.250 and AR-15 I also shot kicked hard enough to do it .I am very near sighted and 62 years old .so all three things could have got it started ,Any way went to a opthymoligist .he checked things out .OK so far .He just said I might want to wait 2 weeks before shooting rifles again. I have waited a month instead .may wait a bit longer a couple more weeks maybe . am scared .Any way I forgot to ask him how long the process took ,for the vitreous to compete its detachment and it is over with? anybody know? so i can get back to shooting

[.45colt]

I had cataract surgery on both eyes about nine years ago. age 62. I'm the one in a million who had torn retinas in each eye that required a viterectomy to repair . one was head up for a week the other was head down for a week. had to rent a special chair . I delt with a large retina specialists group where the Dr's would tell Me nothing. ask a million questions about what I could do after surgury and got this... ....off of work for a month, your ok now go back to work tomorrow unloading trucks lifting sometimes 100lbs. . The last was seven years ago and I still haven't shot my big rifles. Good Luck. I hope Your DR.can Help.

[Rockrat]

Mine hit early August last year. Still can see the faded Weiss ring. Floaters disappeared after about 6 months. Things didn't affect my rifle shooting (right handed) but I have stayed away from the heavy recoil guns, but did affect my pistol shooting (left handed) for awhile. Eye strain trying to focus with the floaters so waited a bit.
Think mine came from a car wreck about a year earlier. Went to bed one night, everything OK, woke up the next morning wondering what the heck was going on.