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If you have a suspected retinal detachment, you must come in to Moorfields, your nearest eye clinic or ophthalmic accident and emergency department, as soon as possible.
Whether you attend casualty or your nearest outpatient department, you will have a sight test and a full eye examination. Eye drops are put into both your eyes to make the pupils bigger, which helps the ophthalmologist to examine the back of the eye fully. The effect of these drops will wear off after a few hours, but your vision will be blurred temporarily preventing you from reading and driving.
Avoid driving yourself to hospital or to the local railway station whenever you come to have your retinas examined because your pupils will always need to be dilated.
If you are diagnosed with a retinal detachment, you will be advised to have surgery as soon as possible to reattach the retina.
