Will try to update as possible:
Today right eye, multi lens implant (ReStor ACRYSofiq lens)
It's pricy and not covered by insurance as are all the mono lenses. I decided I was a good candidate for it and went for it.
Reported at 8:30 to surgi-center.. final prep about 10:30, procedue at 11 and home by 11:30. Would have been quicker but they got backed up a little. Dr had done 7 procedures before me and had 2 additional behind me. Looks like she tries to do 10 every Tuesday morning... big bucks there, for sure.
Took about 15 minutes, no pain whatsoever. They put in (guessing) 12 rounds of drops and a numbing drop multiple times prior to landing in the OR ready to go. In the OR, they added something to my saline IV to put me in a twilight mode.. peaceful, could talk plainly with no confusion, answer questions etc, but didn't feel drugged.
The procedure was fascinating from my perspective. My bad right eye only eye exposed. Staring at overhead bright colored lights. The DR used a microscope to guide her in breaking up my lens and removing it, then inserting the multi lens. I could see it all happening, from her vacuuming up the pieces of the old lens, to the edges and features of the new one.
Wheeled me out to recovery with a diet coke and a muffin. I was a little groggy,but not much at all. Again, ZERO discomfort or pain. Put a patch over my eye (a plastic mesh protector to wear to keep me from scratching the eye or letting something get into it,, it doesn't shut out light and all vision, it's just a mesh thing). I have many drops to put in over next days and weeks. She will remove the mesh (although I have taken it off several times to put in drops) completely at 8am tomorrow and has cleared me and my DW to drive to San Antonio to visit friends Friday... amazing.
Hope to get the other eye done in 2-3 weeks..can't wait.
I had to take out the lens in my glasses that provided the strong correction for my bad right eye. I will get their optical shop to drop in a clear glass lens so I can have glasses until the other implant, at which time I can toss the glasses for good. Possible I might need readers for close up reading, but it's unlikely.
I will try to post more on the progress part of this if anyone is interested.
Today right eye, multi lens implant (ReStor ACRYSofiq lens)
It's pricy and not covered by insurance as are all the mono lenses. I decided I was a good candidate for it and went for it.
Reported at 8:30 to surgi-center.. final prep about 10:30, procedue at 11 and home by 11:30. Would have been quicker but they got backed up a little. Dr had done 7 procedures before me and had 2 additional behind me. Looks like she tries to do 10 every Tuesday morning... big bucks there, for sure.
Took about 15 minutes, no pain whatsoever. They put in (guessing) 12 rounds of drops and a numbing drop multiple times prior to landing in the OR ready to go. In the OR, they added something to my saline IV to put me in a twilight mode.. peaceful, could talk plainly with no confusion, answer questions etc, but didn't feel drugged.
The procedure was fascinating from my perspective. My bad right eye only eye exposed. Staring at overhead bright colored lights. The DR used a microscope to guide her in breaking up my lens and removing it, then inserting the multi lens. I could see it all happening, from her vacuuming up the pieces of the old lens, to the edges and features of the new one.
Wheeled me out to recovery with a diet coke and a muffin. I was a little groggy,but not much at all. Again, ZERO discomfort or pain. Put a patch over my eye (a plastic mesh protector to wear to keep me from scratching the eye or letting something get into it,, it doesn't shut out light and all vision, it's just a mesh thing). I have many drops to put in over next days and weeks. She will remove the mesh (although I have taken it off several times to put in drops) completely at 8am tomorrow and has cleared me and my DW to drive to San Antonio to visit friends Friday... amazing.
Hope to get the other eye done in 2-3 weeks..can't wait.
I had to take out the lens in my glasses that provided the strong correction for my bad right eye. I will get their optical shop to drop in a clear glass lens so I can have glasses until the other implant, at which time I can toss the glasses for good. Possible I might need readers for close up reading, but it's unlikely.
I will try to post more on the progress part of this if anyone is interested.