Back to wearing glasses - ICK!

[Catty1]

There is such a thing as "secondary cataracts" - my mom was told about them when she had her cataract surgery last year.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-se...y-cataract.htm

[mrspunkysmom]

There is such a thing as "secondary cataracts" - my mom was told about them when she had her cataract surgery last year.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-se...y-cataract.htm

The docs didn't call the condition secondary cataracts when I had my surgery. Constantly renaming stuff or differences of professional opinions. I wish they would be consistent.

This was the regrowth of lens material that I mentioned in my previous post. I see an optometrist every year, but it has been a while since I've seen an ophthalmologist.

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 lens capsule, hopefully free of lens material. The Posterior Capsule 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.