Cataract Surgery

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Anybody here been thru cataract surgery? Specific comments one stages of recovery and how it went?

[Valery_V (imported)]

Anybody here been thru cataract surgery? Specific comments one stages of recovery and how it went?

I did in November 2021 on both eyes.

Alcon IQ lenses were put in.

The effect is positive, but my eyes are still adapting: between the left and right eyes, there is still a slight difference in the geometric dimensions of the images.

Therefore, a normal three-dimensional picture is not yet obtained. They say it doesn't happen right away. The brain provides full alignment in about six months.

[racerboy (imported)]

I got both eyes done a couple of months apart around 2007. My optometrist who referred me told me I was getting one of the best eye surgeons in the entire region. I had always been severely near-sighted and my replacement lenses were corrected for that. I was awake through both surgeries, although really all I remember is whirling lights...and one incident when they were doing my second eye and the nurse was complaining that it didn't seem fair that her insurance didn't pay for laser eye surgery but I was getting "almost the same thing" with only a modest copay. Recovery was relatively quick. My surgery was on a Thursday and they had me come in on Friday for a check-up and to have the cover on the eye removed. Thereafter came a couple of follow-ups but no problems.

One thing I remember after they did my first eye, natural lenses tend to yellow with age. When mine was replaced, everything looked yellowish, as if looking through transparent butter through my unoperated eye, but once my brain got used to my situation, I never noticed it again. I have since had only one problem -- a couple of years after the surgery, cataract tissue started growing back. They "blasted" it with a laser and I've been "good to go" ever since.

By the way, although I wore bifocals at the time and they made a sort of bifocal replacement lens, the surgeon recommended against them and I didn't get them. The technology may have improved with such things by now. On the other hand, I have found I rarely need my reading glasses even today, given that I do a lot of my reading on computers, tablets, and smart phones where I can control the text size.

[ambiguous (imported)]

I had both eyes done a couple of years ago.

Again a couple of months apart.

All fine here but treat your eyes like they have an open wound on them.

Avoid water from say taking a shower going in them and keep up the meds they give you.

I must admit to binning off that plastic shield they give you for when you go to bed as it kept falling off.

I think you will find the 2nd op a bit more tricky mentally as you know what's coming next.

[Slammr (imported)]

Had both eyes done at the same time. Glasses were getting thicker every year. Now, I don't wear them at all. Glad I had it done. I can think of no negatives.

[Paolo]

Uncle and Grandpa both had it done, one eye at a time, and then the other eye a few weeks later. Both had no complications. They said it was over before they knew what was going on, and remembered it being done, despite the sedatives. I need to have one eye done, badly, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Valery_V (imported)]

I had them done 10 days apart.

I strictly followed all the requirements ...

I didn't have any complications.

[Paolo]

I think their reasoning in the delay of the other eye was scheduling. From what my eye Doc told me, all the clinics around here are very busy year-round.

[WheelyCurious]

What I keep hearing is that not only are doctors offices busy with their normal patient load, but that they are even more busy because now that COVID has (mostly) become a non-problem, they are getting bombed by all the patients that had been putting off (or getting put off) all the care they would have otherwise gotten during the pandemic...

Seems like the Doctor's version of 'supply chain shortage'

WheelyCurious