Fred, are you able to drive home after the surgery?...Is it one eye at a time?...:shrug:...Ben
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Fred, are you able to drive home after the surgery?...Is it one eye at a time?...:shrug:...Ben
Ben,
They did mine one eye at a time. You need a driver to get home due to the anesthesia.
I have a while to decide...They're not through with the injections yet...:lipseal:...Ben
Need a driver Ben. Next day is an early appointment so need a driver for that also. With the second eye done I could have driven but the wife took me.
I'm thinking I need to give this a whirl. Dallas also said he was given goggles to keep water out of the eyes, 4 weeks for tap water and 6 weeks for lake or ocean water. He had both eyes done at the same time and said he could see better that night after the clouding disappeared.
Not sure about the both eyes at the same time. Could be done I guess but here it was one and 2 weeks later for the second. Gives the eye time to clear up.
Could be depending on how bad the eyes are.
I asked him about that Fred and he confirmed they did both eyes at the same time. Never heard of that before, but he is very happy with the results and highly recommends getting it done.
I am closing in on getting lens replacement surgery on my one good eye. I had a laser tune-up on the poor eye to get it seeing as best as possible, but it is still poor. The big risk is messing up the one usable eye, but my cataract in that eye has made me sign up for the surgery.
The process called for me to take my usual contact lens out of the eye scheduled for surgery for two weeks so the eye will return to natural shape allowing the doctor to measure it for the permanent implant. I am a week into that, and it has been miserable. Without the contact that eye is a -6.50, which means I am seeing out of it about 20/400 uncorrected...pitiful. The other tuned-up one is not much better. I can’t imagine the hardships of a truly blind person, but I’m getting a better idea. Right now, I can read my iPad, but I’m holding it about 8” from my nose with my bad eye closed. Much better than blindness, but not happy.
My wife is getting really tired of driving and hearing me complain. Here’s hoping and trusting the coming replacement works as advertised and with zero complications. I asked the doctor about the feasibility of the multifocus lens, but he said experience showed that for them to be acceptable both eyes needed to have them because only one caused a disorientation that patients usually found disconcerting. I decide on a single focus giving best far focus. I’ll wear readers after.
Well I hope it all goes well for you.
Hope everything works out well and you get great vision.
How did yours work out, Fred?
Good luck---I'm confident it will work out for you.
My wife had her first one done about 15 years ago and the second about a year latter. She had cataracts in both eyes at a relatively early age (about 55), which is common for red heads :shrug:
There have been no problems at all and her vision is fine and requires no additional correction, i.e. reading glasses.
I had both done and they are the same set. No one eye seeing distance and the other close-up.
I still wear glasses. Reason being one eye is 20/20 and the other is about 35/20 or so. Plus I still needed reading glasses. Since I been wearing glass since I was a kid it's something I gotten used to. My glasses are bi-focal and auto darkening, so no need for sunglasses. Only bad thing I can say about the whole process I didn't get a taller framed glasses so the bifocal line is really not as great as it good be.
Then I dropped a box which hit me right on the glasses and messed up the adjustments. So every once in a while I'll try to readjust them by bend them slightly. Figure the better way will be to get another pair but waiting for the yearly check-up and get a better shape glasses. Might even try the no-line bi-focal this time around.
I say go for it, Joe.
Before I had mine removed several years ago I could not shoot open sighted rifles and through a scope I was seeing two reticles. After the surgery everything was back to normal.
I have the no line bifocals Fred and love them. I also have the auto darkening, but they will not darken in the truck while driving. I made a stink about it at the eyeglass place and they told me that the auto glass has UV protection in it so the glasses will not darken while driving. It is nice though to have them darken whenever I get out, so I keep a pair of clip ons in the truck for driving.