Vision correcting, both eyes. Love it. 20/200 to 20/20, but the brightness can be annoying. About 4 years ago.
One of the best things I’ve ever done. Both eyes. Vision correcting.
If both eyes, they usually wait two weeks before doing the 2nd eye. I was in a twilight situation where the doctor talked to me but I wasnt’ totally awake.
Had been severely short sighted since the age of 8. As an adult, different contacts: soft, hard, monovision for near and far etc.
This didn’t hurt, you will see normally and can’t feel their presence at all.
I did see everything with a blue tint - “fixed” that by getting amber tinted sun glasses. And then after some months the blue tint went away. A family member had the blue tinting for a couple days.
This was 10 years ago.
Unlike most here (and my wife) I had a problem. Had the right eye done first and while the clarity was fine I had double and triple vision. Doc said it could be fixed with drops but I got another opinion. Seems the new lens was not aligned properly, so I had it removed and replaced. Then the fun began. Messing with your eye is tricky so I developed a retina edema or swelling. The steroid drops caused my eye pressure to elevate into glaucoma territory, as I am allergic to steroids. That was three years ago. Still have to take four kind of drops and probably always will. The cornea also got involved and my old good vision ain’t so good anymore. My other eye was done with no issues.
It was pain free and I noticed the correction in my vision on the way home from the hospital.
Cataracts - bump for later.
Had it done a month or two ago.
SUPER SUCCESS!
PAINLESS !
(Wait until you have the first eye done when you can compare before and after. You’ll see you’ve been looking through a brown film for years.)
ML/NJ
I forgot to wish you GOOD LUCK, I hope everything goes well👍
Just got my second surgery for cataracts. There is zero pqain and my surgeon took ten minutes from incision to final eye wash and out of the building in fifteen minutes after surgery! I was told I would not need to put all sortws of drops in my eyes after surgery because my surgeon used a little bubble of DEXYcu, which is a small slowly dissolving mix of the three drops that used to be required by the patient following the surgery. That has been my experience, no discomfort, no daily drops and only wear an eye shield at night for the first week. I aksed for the distance lenses, for driving purposes. The offer of stigmatism or bifocal lenses seemed excessive since I wore glasses and the corrections are easily handled with glasses. I have macular degeneration in addition to the cataracts, so it is noce to regaing full light and the colors are so vivid after removing the brownish tinted cataracts. Don’t fret, it’s all good! (I am 76, BTW. The first eye (left) was done on Sept 21 and the second on Oct 5th and I was astonished that I could see from the left eye as I rolled out TO the car! AGAIN, THE SUDDEN GAIN OF COLOR VISION IS AMAZING.
I did both eyes, monovision. That is one eye is for reading and the other for distance. I’m an organist. I got special glasses for reading music but never use them. I can just see everything clearly.
I was scared at first because it took several days for my vision to clear up. I realize now why some people have the fog and others do not. when they remove the old natural lens they break it up and then vacuum it out, well there are two ways to break it up, one is an ultra sound wand and the other is a laser. The ultrasound really inflames the cornea and the swollen cornea causes the fog. The laser method is much gentler on the cornea and doesn’t seem to cause that fog.
Interesting that so many Freepers had cataract surgery. Does this mean our demos skew old? That would be depressing, that Trump supporters are mostly Boomers (me) and older.
Not very painful, and pay the money for corrective lenses so you may then only need reading glasses.