Your eyes are delicate and complex, especially your retinas.
Maintaining the health of your retinas and vision can contribute to a better quality of life and ensure you’re enjoying what you love—whether it’s spending time with loved ones, living an active lifestyle or reading books—for as many years as possible.
The retina is a light-sensitive area in the back of the eye that includes the macula, which is made up of light-sensitive cells that provide us with sharp, detailed vision. In a healthy eye, images are focused onto the retina and then converted into electrical signals that are sent to the brain for processing.
We see many patients for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), an eye disease associated with advancing age. AMD affects as many as 11 million people in the US and is the leading cause of low vision in patients over age 50. AMD affects the macula, the center of the retina, located in the back wall of the eye.
Diabetic retinopathy affects patients with diabetes. If you have diabetes mellitus, your body does not use and store sugar (glucose) properly. Elevated levels of glucose in your blood damage eye capillaries over time. This damage is the cause of diabetic retinopathy.
Other conditions and diseases include:
If you’re overdue for an eye exam, request an appointment to make sure your retinas are happy and healthy!
Studies show that most AMD tends to run in families. An association has also been found between smoking and AMD.
Patients with diabetes are at an elevated risk for conditions and diseases affecting retinas. If you’re curious about the relationship between diabetes and eye health, read our article, Diabetes and Your Eyes.
Whether you’re at a higher risk than average or not, it’s better to be proactive than reactive about your eye health, so schedule an eye exam at the Cheyenne Eye Clinic & Surgery Center to give your retinas a check!
Cheyenne Eye Clinic is proud to partner with fellowship-trained vitreoretinal surgeons at Eye Center of Northern Colorado. While your surgery may take place in Northern Colorado, our surgeons will care for you before and after your procedure, right here in Cheyenne.
Our retina specialist is board-certified and fellowship-trained in vitreoretinal surgery. With an experienced support staff to assist in surgical procedures, your retina surgery will be as quick and painless as possible.
Doctors and staff at the Cheyenne Eye Clinic & Surgical Center take enormous pride in providing attentive, detail-oriented care. It takes a keen pair of eyes and mind to track changes in your eyes during an exam. The slightest change in your eyes can be an indication of a potential problem, so it’s crucial that you entrust your eyes to a highly qualified eye doctor.
If your eyes are like a camera, your retina is the film. The retina is a membrane of light-sensitive tissue that lines the back of your eye. Even though it’s less than a millimeter thick, it contains several intricate, essential layers you may have heard of, including the macula in addition to rods and cones.
Since 1903, the Cheyenne Eye Clinic and Surgery Center has provided comprehensive eye care services to improve patients’ sight and enhance their lives—and we want to do the same for you.
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Saturday and Sunday: CLOSED
For after hours emergencies, please call 307-634-2020
Our Optical Department will close at 2:00 PM on November 20th to attend the memorial service for a dear friend and colleague.
We apologize for the inconvenience.