What Do My OCT Results Mean? Questions to Ask at Your Appointment
An OCT report can feel strangely impersonal for something so important. You leave the scan room with a printout or a patient portal update full of grayscale circles, cross sections, numbers, and abbreviations, and somehow you are supposed to understand what it all means for your vision. If you have ever stared at an OCT result and wondered whether “normal,” “borderline,” or “mild thickening” is something to ignore or something to worry about, you are not alone. OCT, shor