Back to wearing glasses - ICK!

[mrspunkysmom]

Wow...just caught up to your post now. That sure leaves me wondering what to do about having that other eye done. I had no clue cataracts could come back, probably would never have had the other eye done had I read this last year I can have a go at it once but not if they come back. I don't know why the optometrist said he couldn't give me a stronger prescription instead of having the cataracts removed. I think I'll ask when I go to the eye surgeon for my appt. (in his office) at least they don't throw you in the hopsital for the appt ...idiots. Wonder why no one mentioned the possibility of them coming back..?
Even with the cataracts removed I'll always need polarized glasses if I go out, so I'm beginning to wonder if having the cataracts removed is so necessary.....wouldn't mind if it was done in the office like you, not worse than the dentist...maybe if I'm lucky the hospital will float away
Can you tell the date is looming and I'm having second thoughts...

Having just re-read the thread, I don't think Pom said her cataracts came back. She's having eyelid-tear duct issues with a blocked tear duct (ouch).

Cataracts, as in the whole lens, can't come back. And a stronger presciption won't help. Prescription lenses help focus light as it passes through your cornea and natural lens so that it hits the back of the eye right on. If your lens is clouded with cataract material, light won't get through unimpeded no matter what. Think of a cataract like FOG. We can see light and dark, but the details are not visible.

If the basics of the surgery haven't changed, the doctor cuts a very small hole in the cornea and removes the anterior (front) lens capsule. The contents of the lens capsule is the removed, leaving the posterior lends capsule, hopefully free of lens material. The PC is used as a hammock to seat and secure the lens implant, which I believe is also tied into place in the eye. Months later you are evaluated to see if the cataract material on the PC has grown. If necessary, a laser surgery is performed to cut a hole in the PC so it will fall off and vision will be restored.

I was very young when mine was performed, so there is a possibility of cusping, the lens material growing around the implant.

If your doctor says you need the surgery, you should do it. The lens material clouds over and blocks or distorts light. Colors fade; clarity diminishes. I was unable to drive at night for a long time because all of the lights overwhelmed any night vision.

Believe me when I tell you that the annoyance or anti-reflective lenses with polarizing material is worth the trade for vision. Without it, I, and many others here, would be legally blind. Mine were so bad they were done 6 weeks apart.

You probably don't think you need it now, but wait until the second eye is done.

Good Luck!

[Asiel]

Having just re-read the thread, I don't think Pom said her cataracts came back. She's having eyelid-tear duct issues with a blocked tear duct (ouch).

Cataracts, as in the whole lens, can't come back. And a stronger presciption won't help. Prescription lenses help focus light as it passes through your cornea and natural lens so that it hits the back of the eye right on. If your lens is clouded with cataract material, light won't get through unimpeded no matter what. Think of a cataract like FOG. We can see light and dark, but the details are not visible.

If the basics of the surgery haven't changed, the doctor cuts a very small hole in the cornea and removes the anterior (front) lens capsule. The contents of the lens capsule is the removed, leaving the posterior lends capsule, hopefully free of lens material. The PC is used as a hammock to seat and secure the lens implant, which I believe is also tied into place in the eye. Months later you are evaluated to see if the cataract material on the PC has grown. If necessary, a laser surgery is performed to cut a hole in the PC so it will fall off and vision will be restored.

I was very young when mine was performed, so there is a possibility of cusping, the lens material growing around the implant.

If your doctor says you need the surgery, you should do it. The lens material clouds over and blocks or distorts light. Colors fade; clarity diminishes. I was unable to drive at night for a long time because all of the lights overwhelmed any night vision.

Believe me when I tell you that the annoyance or anti-reflective lenses with polarizing material is worth the trade for vision. Without it, I, and many others here, would be legally blind. Mine were so bad they were done 6 weeks apart.

You probably don't think you need it now, but wait until the second eye is done.

Good Luck!

I'll have the other eye done, just not keen on it because of the big deal we go through here when it's a 15 minute op. Actually with only one eye done I'm in heaven, I see colours now and actual faces so I thought I could skip the second eye but might as well go the whole route. I wouldn't dare cancel now, someone would have my hide...gotta keep up with her, what she can do I can do...I think not...

I've always needed polarized glasses, always will but I'm so comfy in them that I couldn't do without them, no eye pain from light, no shimmering roads or sidewalks etc.