Anyone here had cataract surgery?
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
Had it done a couple of years ago, piece of cake.
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I've had cataract surgery on both eyes. My doctor offered 3 options for the implanted lenses: 1) Cheapest (100% covered by my insurance) were clear / no correction. Guaranteed to require multifocal corrective glasses. 2) Middle (~$1000/eye out of pocket) were corrected for near or far but not both. Guaranteed to require corrective glasses for whichever wasn't corrected with the implanted lenses. 3) Fancy (~$2500/eye out of pocket) were super cool multifocal lenses. Excellent chance that no corrective glasses would be required at all. Having worn glasses for 20+ years I chose the fancy multifocal lenses. It's been several years and I'm still loving it. No glasses!!! The only thing I notice is slight coronas around lights at night. It's my understanding that is normal for all 3 lens choices - not just the multifocal lenses. They use lasers in tests before the surgery to map the eye to pick the proper multifocal lens. The procedure itself was very quick (15 minutes). I was awake the whole time. Eye drops to numb the eyeball (that was weird). They use a suction cup to hold the eye steady as they work. My doctor injects antibiotics into the eye so no regiment of drops are required after. I've found many people become squeamish when hearing these kind of details but when you explain that blindness is the alternative they get over it. Surgery in the morning with a follow-up in his office a few hours later. Wore an eye patch for about 6 hours and overnight (the first night). Lots of "floaters" in the first 12-18 hours. None after about 24 hours. Follow-up with my optometrist after a few weeks. Hope this helps!
I have floaters my whole life. Nothing to do for that.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
Thank you to all who posted. Calmed some fears, I mean I code for a living kinda need to be able to see. Hope I can get something like a Valium for procedure day though.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
Hi, Both of my Parents have had both Eyes done, no issues, well my Mums night vision is now so good she forgets headlights some times! Go for it! :)
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
I know noone that have suffered negative effects, but it is a surgery and as such there is always a tiny risk. Do what you are told in the preparations and keep people away the last 2 weeks before the surgery, you don't want to get any minor illness because either the surgery can't be done or the heal process will get affected. Good luck
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
warning: here there be gory details No one has mentioned the laser option for cataracts. I had a severe astigmatism and near-sightedness due to a condition where my eyeballs aren't particularly round and the outside is rather thick. I had my surgery at 56 when they couldn't correct my sight anymore with glasses. I didn't have much discoloration or muting of visible colors, I just couldn't see in focus. My procedure was the same on each eye, done 2 weeks apart. First, they did a bit of laser work on the cornea, sort of like regular laser eye surgery, to reduce the distortion from my misshapen eyeball and also used the laser to break up the existing lens inside. That makes it much easier to remove. That was completely without anesthesia -- I just looked up into this machine wearing a device to prevent blinking. We then moved to the surgical room. They added a light anesthesia (less than a colonoscopy if you've had one of them, which you should have given your age!), made a small incision, sucked out the destroyed lens and slipped in the new one. I've got corrective lenses in both eyes, a +8 and a +10 to give you some idea of how bad my vision is uncorrected. I went from being legally blind without glasses to 20/25 vision. I still need reading and computer glasses but even "bifocal" lens implants wouldn't have fixed that given my eye shape. As others have mentioned, you will lose the ability to focus very close in. Best advice is to find a good surgical ophthalmologist with experience in some of the newer technologies.
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
You need to get a recommendation for an ophthalmologist who does lots of cataract surgery. And, you should begin seeing an ophthalmologist yearly, not an optometrist.
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
my mother had cataracts . for a few months she lived with me . during this time i insisted she not smoke in my apartment . also i prepared only my usual vegetarian meals . after a while she reported some slight improvement in her condition .
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God has a sense of humor, yesterday I teased Southmountain about new glasses. Went to the eye doctor for my yearly checkup, I knew something was up because I ditched my single focus computer lenses 3 or 4 months ago. The cataracts in both eyes have grown so much over the past year I now have a surgery consult in February. The optometrist said, "Yeah, your prescription changed so much that we're not even going to do glasses until the cataracts are taken care of." Any advice? I know around here I'm kind of a whippersnapper at 57 (58 in March).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
