Central serous retinopathy
That volcano-shaped thing is supposed to be a little pit (that's what "fovea" means).
I'm a bit pissed off that the Zeiss optical coherence tomography machine that the doctor used to take this image evidently keeps the data locked up in a proprietary format, and can only exchange data with other Zeiss products. The doctor says he can't even save a screenshot. The only way I could get this picture was by snapping a photo of the display with my phone.
I'm impressed with the technology, and I'm happy to pay for it. It's much better than the machine used to take the image in my first post about this, and allowed for a quick and unambiguous diagnosis. I just don't want to pay more for it than it actually costs. Ziess is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook here by leveraging proprietary data formats and locked-down data sharing to coerce doctors into buying their equipment instead of someone else's. Except, the stakes are higher for medical products.
Glad you got an accurate diagnosis, and it would seem that prognosis for this condition is excellent with correct management/treatment.
What treatment options has the doc suggested?
Basically, that it will go away. Eventually.
Or they can drill a hole in my retina with a laser, which they think is probably a bad idea.
Medicine still seems quite "middle ages" some days...
I don't know. I think I the middle ages they would have tried to do something, even if it wouldn't work. They'd probably bleed me, or something.
Knowing when to do nothing is actually a rather sophisticated innovation.
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