They dilate your pupil to the max for cataract procedures. Mine was first thing in the morning and it was still somewhat dilated when I went to sleep that night. This is the main cause of the blurriness.
On the bright side, you'll be amused at yourself when you realize how much calmer you'll feel when you go in for your second eye.
great to hear the first one went well. DW had both done this year with no issues and can see much better. Now she has stopped running into immovable objects with her car!
Happy to hear you survived the first one w/ flying colors. When you finish w/ the 2nd and are admiring the lost wonders of your world in fine detail, here's one to add to your list:
the headlights of your car.........what color are the lenses? and do they also have............
cataracts? Just a new way of looking at the issue inspired by your recent thread. Perhaps they also contributed to the night driving issue? I just restored the ones on
DW's Camry with what is likely to be a temporary fix but DW says she can see much more of the road at night now.
Thank you!So very, very pleased for you!
Thank you!
My surgeon was pleased with the results so far as well. He checked for infection or other problems and found none. Also he pointed out that my eyes are still fairly dilated and that my vision will get even better once that wears off in another day or so. As Frank drove me to and from his office, I was having a ball reading street signs and so on. Lots of fun.
Even though my (still dilated) vision was just 20/40 without glasses, before surgery it was only correctable to 20/35 with glasses on - - so to me this amount of improvement is nearly miraculous. He expects considerably more improvement as the dilation wears off, and I am hoping for 20/20. Looking in the mirror, my left pupil still looks like a gigantic, yawning abyss. This is because they use super-powerful meds to dilate the eyes for surgery, compared with what they normally use to dilate eyes.
The brighter colors and whiter whites are subtle but amazing. I had assumed that the dull appearance of things (instead of bright and colorful) was just due to bad attitude and not due to a physical cause, but boy was I wrong.
The feeling of sand in the eye that bothers some people was very mild for me, only lasted a few hours and is now gone. Whew, dodged that bullet.
Your result sounds great! All surgeries are scary, but your experience makes me want to get the surgery myself.
My husband had an eye exam today and learned he has cataracts starting to form.
It was wonderful to be able to cite your excellent results to him; I think it allayed his worries somewhat.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Great report, W2R! Hope # 2 goes just as well next week!
This thread makes me want to get cataract surgery even though I don't think I have cataracts.... corrected vision, brighter colors... It all sounds wonderful to me.
disintegrate your lens, pluck/vacuum the pieces of disintegrated lens right out of your eye, and insert a plastic thingie into your eyeball instead, and somehow try to get it oriented correctly, and then somehow keep everything intact and not leaking eyeball fluids all over (how is that done? I'll have to look that up).
Thanks! I will, within the rather strict confines of doctor's orders. Which means lots of couch potato time this week, but F did drive me around in the car today and I loved reading the street signs with my "new eye".Congratulations W2R! It sounds like everything is going very well. Enjoy your new view of the world and get out there and enjoy it.
That's true - - I haven't even been able to see the incision, although I haven't really looked for it except briefly. And what if the taco unfolds the wrong way? In my mind's eye, I imagine the surgeon practicing with folded lens-tacos and artificial eyeball-like practice units, to make sure the lens would unfold the right way if inserted just *thus*. I still wonder why my eye isn't leaking, but maybe the eye fluids are too thick for that to be a problem. (Yes, I was a horrible child, too many questions!)FWIW, the incision made in your eye is very tiny -- only about a millimeter. The new lens is folded up like a taco and inserted that way. Once it's in the capsule, it unfolds to its normal configuration.
I hope you thanked him! I wonder sometimes if people who design life-changing instruments like that can even begin to grasp the huge ultimate impact of their life's work on so many people.When we were on a cruise a couple of years ago, we met a guy who had invented and designed many of the instruments used in modern eye surgery. He had a long list of patents for them. Fascinating stuff.
It is pretty amazing. The cataract grows so slowly we aren't aware of it's effect until it's removed. It's like a dirty screen on a window.The brighter colors and whiter whites are subtle but amazing. I had assumed that the dull appearance of things (instead of bright and colorful) was just due to bad attitude and not due to a physical cause, but boy was I wrong.
It is pretty amazing. The cataract grows so slowly we aren't aware of it's effect until it's removed. It's like a dirty screen on a window.
No way! I needed a driver. Not only that, the surgical center would not even do the surgery unless I had a driver sitting there waiting to drive me home. They wouldn't even allow a taxi.
Good grief.The part about "no taxi" is just ridiculous. What do people do, who don't have a partner handy and aren't the type to "approach" neighbors or don't have approachable neighbors? Do they have to pay to hire a driver for a whole day?