Forum (started in 1999) for those who have had or want to prevent a detached retina. Visit our website at www.sightwise.org, a leading source of basic detached retina information plus links to other sites. This group continues to be an inclusive,tolerant, open forum. However personal attacks(extremely rare)and commercial solicitations are not allowed. This was an open group for 10 years which allowed visitors to get feedback from the group experience. Google has since started indexing newsgroup postings so this group was changed to a private group in 2010 as the internet is becoming too invasive and people did all feel comfortable with so many people outside the group having access to questions and information about their eye issues.