Hello Doctors.
I have some doubts about my condition and power lifting and would appreciate your professional opinion. Here is the background:
Because of pregnancy complications I was born with chronic glaucoma, cataracts and not crystalline in both eyes. With two years I went through corrective surgery for the cataracts (that was 32 years ago so it was a really intrusive operation) and six years later went again into the operating room for freezing treatment to my right eye due hight intraocular pressure. After that all was into acceptable parameters until ten years or so ago, went I went through vitrectomy in the same right eye because the vitreous was “touching” other parts of the eye. After that my intraocular pressure has been better than before (right eye always was kind of problematic until then).
Now in the present: about three moths ago I began going to the gym and about two moths the initial power lifting routine (squash, press, dead light and bench press), It was all great until three weeks ago when I began seeing brown shadows and little black dots in my right eye. I was doing no physical exercise; in fact I was playing videogames sunday night, with my last power lifting session the previous Friday morning. Of course I went to my oculist next day. He checked the eye and said he didn’t notice anything wrong, only some “accumulation” (sorry, I can’t translate it better) in the vitreous gel but that it was perfectly normal. Anyway, it recommended me don’t do any harsh action for a moth and be aware in the gym. And if the symptoms worsen or I begin to see white lights into the dark, return to him.
I never considered PL rough, but still i enter into a bit of panic and stop doing it returning to my initial program in the gym (some cardio and machines).
The thing is, after three weeks the symptoms dind’t worsen but so did my humor and energy. The eye didn’t improve either. So, at the end, I have begun power lifting again. My doctor didn’t ban it explicitly and he tends to be over-cautious (understandable giving my eyes condition) so I would really appreciate a second opinion.
Thank you very much; I apologize for the language errors, english is not my native language and this is such an specialize topic.