I had cataract surgery about 3 years ago. I had to have it done, because one of the cataracts was right in the middle of my left eye. What they don't tell you before you have the surgery, is that in a majority of cases, you will have to go back and have a laser procedure on both eyes to destroy cells that eventually develop on the lenses and blur your site. It's a one time procedure, and they only do it one eye at a time on different occasions.
I can see 20/20 distance, but shit for anything else. Medicare paid for the frames I picked out, but they did not pay for the graduated lenses I needed for computer and book reading. I paid $350 for them, and I can't wear them to do either. It's because the size of the areas in the graduated lenses that I view from when using the computer and when reading books, isn't big enough to allow me to see clearly. I had to go out and buy reading glasses in two different scripts that I use when I'm on the computer, and when I read books.
Get your prescription and buy the frames and lenses from Zenni Optical. I have used them for years and never had a bad pair of glasses. I can be accused of going wild since I buy no line bifocals, computer glasses, reading glasses (that I hardly ever use) and single vision glasses in sunglass and regular prescriptions.
None of this will do a bit of good now until I get these cataracts taken care of. That technology is improving so much and so fast but I don’t want to wait too long past this year to perhaps enjoy life without these glasses that have made permanent divots in my skull behind my ears, slide off my face when I sweat and other irritations. Never more to pick up and put on my glasses when I wake in the morning, unimaginable! I just don’t want to be disappointed.