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Post by monbla256 on Jan 13, 2019 15:38:38 GMT -5
I've just finished getting my second catarac surgury this past week and now am far sited! I got my first pair of glasses 66 years ago as I was diagnosed as being near sited with an astigmatism in my right eye. Now anything closer than 5' is blurry ! I go in to get checked out and hopefully a prescription for new glasses ! I'm sure we have folks here who have had cataracs so has anyone had this problem ! It sucks ! Gotta carry around a pair of reading glasses around when i want to see anything up close ! 
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Post by trailboss on Jan 13, 2019 15:52:12 GMT -5
I have never had cataracts, but welcome to my world.
I had LASIK done about 2000, which helped me enormously on distance. As it was explained to me at the time, they could do nothing for up close, when you turn about 40 most people get Presbyopia which is a hardening of the cornea, that is why around 40, a lot of people start needing reading glasses.
If you have made it that many times around the sun without needing reading glasses, you have been fortunate.
Smoking Presbyterian mixture will not cure Presbyopia... no matter what Jiminks says.
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Post by just ol ed on Jan 13, 2019 17:02:27 GMT -5
had both my "Cadillacs" done in '16. Now only need reading glasses. Guess lucky at my age.
(used to call 'em Cadillacs cause yrs ago for the price of the surgery, could get you couple brand new Cadillacs). Not sure about a Bugatti Veyron 'tho)!
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 13, 2019 17:09:53 GMT -5
 I had eye surgery, wife complained about my driving , I finally had the surgery and it was like a new vista opened up, 4K everywhere. I had my eyes fixed where one could see far and one close, later I had a lazar adjustment , which tuned them up. I believe old age is hitting you and glasses will be a part of your life. I buy the cheats by the handful and drop them everywhere, tractor, truck, pipe room. I think that you will find they can fine tune you, but specs are there as you get older.
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Post by swampgrizzly on Jan 13, 2019 18:30:11 GMT -5
You may need one of those procedures where they clean up your lens somehow in a couple of weeks. You may need reading glasses as well. It's my understanding that eye docs try to restore your vision as close to youth perfect as possible, but hardly ever get it 100% right. I know some cataract surgery patients who wish they had their cataracts back along with their old glasses then put up with the vision they're left with after surgery! My brother had both eyes done a few years ago with the use of the new lenses that were supposed to enable him to never wear glasses again. I have the beginnings of cataracts, but not quite "ripe enough" to have the surgery recommended. When I'm next to my brother at a ball game or some venue where distance vision is involved, I can see very distant things on outfield scoreboards that my brother can't read and he is frustrated that he can't and I still can see them. As far as I'm concerned, as long as I can have eye glasses that continue to provide me with the vison I experience now, I'm keeping my cataracts!
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 13, 2019 19:02:02 GMT -5
I thought that this was going to be about catheters. Happy I was wrong.
My doctor says that I have cataracts bad enough to affect my sight some, but it will be at least 2 years before I will need surgery. I asked about the implants that enable sight near and far, and he said it adds $3500 per eye.
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Post by slowroll on Jan 13, 2019 19:20:38 GMT -5
I thought that this was going to be about catheters. Happy I was wrong. My doctor says that I have cataracts bad enough to affect my sight some, but it will be at least 2 years before I will need surgery. I asked about the implants that enable sight near and far, and he said it adds $3500 per eye. My wife had the special expensive lenses done for her cataract surgery, and they work well. However, some scar tissue occurred, which necessitated additional expensive surgery that lasted 1 minute.. I conclude that opthamologists are right there with dentists and lawyers on extortionate fees. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 21:00:16 GMT -5
I doan haf a catarac. I haf a Rincorn Continentar.
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Post by kxg on Jan 13, 2019 22:16:33 GMT -5
My vision was 20/400 since childhood. I’m not sure I could see the Big “E” so much as I just knew it was there. I had laser surgery in 2004 to correct that and it was amazing. But I needed reading glasses, for me a small trade off. Then I developed cataracts and had those removed and had the variable lenses put in. Had the laser “clean up” a year or so later. Now I don’t need reading glasses and my distance vision is fair. There is a middle distance, say around 30 - 40 feet that is less than great; not bad but not great. All in all, I’m glad I had the work done. Next up is likely surgery to lift my top eye lids which are drooping to the point of causing problems. My hope is to not come out looking like I’ve had a bad face lift! Good luck with your sight.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 13, 2019 22:31:39 GMT -5
My vision was 20/400 since childhood. I’m not sure I could see the Big “E” so much as I just knew it was there. I had laser surgery in 2004 to correct that and it was amazing. But I needed reading glasses, for me a small trade off. Then I developed cataracts and had those removed and had the variable lenses put in. Had the laser “clean up” a year or so later. Now I don’t need reading glasses and my distance vision is fair. There is a middle distance, say around 30 - 40 feet that is less than great; not bad but not great. All in all, I’m glad I had the work done. Next up is likely surgery to lift my top eye lids which are drooping to the point of causing problems. My hope is to not come out looking like I’ve had a bad face lift! Good luck with your sight. Things like this make me grateful for he times we live in, born much earlier the technology was just not there. |
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I had eye surgery, wife complained about my driving , I finally had the surgery and it was like a new vista opened up, 4K everywhere. I had my eyes fixed where one could see far and one close, later I had a lazar adjustment , which tuned them up. I believe old age is hitting you and glasses will be a part of your life. I buy the cheats by the handful and drop them everywhere, tractor, truck, pipe room. I think that you will find they can fine tune you, but specs are there as you get older.
