Your Experiences With Cataract Surgery
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hemiram
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At this point in time, with how commonplace and easy this surgery is to go through, I can't see how/why anyone would hesitate to have it, unless you have no insurance, and even then, I would put it on a credit card if I had to. I was going to have to stop driving at night very soon if I hadn't had it. Colors were off, contrast was even worse, and the weird halos and stuff around bright lights were just intolerable. A friend of mine is having it next week, and it took him not being able to drive at night to push him to get it done. His wife gave him a lot of hassle for being a "wuss" about it too.
I ended up having the surgery a couple of months ago. Got through it just fine. They removed my cataracts and implanted interlocutor lens to improve my vision. I previously had to wear progressive glasses to see distance, and help with reading (although I could read without them prettt well). It’s real nice not having to wear glasses to see distance, but now I need glasses to read, and that’s a real hassle to make that adjustment.
My eye doc put in a distance lens in one eye, and a more in close lens in the other, but it’s not good enough to read in close. Computer distance is even not great. I didn’t go with the progressive implants because he said they wouldn’t be sharp enough vision for what I wanted.
So, after all this I ended needing to get a pair of prescription progressive eye glasses as my distance is also helped a little with correction. Overall I’m happy with the surgery, again I can see pretty well at distance without glasses. My night driving is definitely improved (that was my biggest motivation to get the surgery), no more starbursts around lights, etc. And, the colors I see are a little better. My cataracts were not real bad, but bad enough…. I noticed seeing better colors the most with white colors.
I do find myself using my progressive lens glasses quite a bit though, as they are more convenient to wear, vs. having to reach for/find my reading glasses all the time. So I’m disappointed that I’m not really free of wearing glasses.
The only problems I’ve noticed is that I can sometimes see what looks like a dark, shadow-like line on the outside edge of my vision (on the left side of my left eye, and the right side of my right eye). Doctor says that some people get this, it’s me seeing the edge of the implant lens. I was told that the brain normally compensates for this and most people don’t see it. Unfortunately, I often times see it, especially when it’s dark. I also get a little bit of dry eye, especially in the morning. Not too big of a deal.
Hope this helps people that are thinking about the surgery.
My eye doc put in a distance lens in one eye, and a more in close lens in the other, but it’s not good enough to read in close. Computer distance is even not great. I didn’t go with the progressive implants because he said they wouldn’t be sharp enough vision for what I wanted.
So, after all this I ended needing to get a pair of prescription progressive eye glasses as my distance is also helped a little with correction. Overall I’m happy with the surgery, again I can see pretty well at distance without glasses. My night driving is definitely improved (that was my biggest motivation to get the surgery), no more starbursts around lights, etc. And, the colors I see are a little better. My cataracts were not real bad, but bad enough…. I noticed seeing better colors the most with white colors.
I do find myself using my progressive lens glasses quite a bit though, as they are more convenient to wear, vs. having to reach for/find my reading glasses all the time. So I’m disappointed that I’m not really free of wearing glasses.
The only problems I’ve noticed is that I can sometimes see what looks like a dark, shadow-like line on the outside edge of my vision (on the left side of my left eye, and the right side of my right eye). Doctor says that some people get this, it’s me seeing the edge of the implant lens. I was told that the brain normally compensates for this and most people don’t see it. Unfortunately, I often times see it, especially when it’s dark. I also get a little bit of dry eye, especially in the morning. Not too big of a deal.
Hope this helps people that are thinking about the surgery.
Jeromejr
Member
I had it done 5 years ago. Great! Vision improved. Eye drops a little annoying, highly recommended!
See my post (#18) in this thread: http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge...tting-close-again.html?posted=1#post141693971
