Replying to an old thread here, but I thought I'd update all on the cataract situation:
This past September I had cataract surgery.
Understand that I'm now sixty, and extremely nearsighted. As a result, the surgeon felt that ethically, he had to correct the nearsightedness.
I was given propofol for both surgeries, which went smoothly ex pet that I came to bolting upright in both cases. First time I nearly smacked heads with my surgeon who was bandaging my eye. 2nd time someone caught me on the way up and pushed me back down.
Left eye healed uneventfully, but the night after surgery on the right eye, I managed to dislodge the dressing and abrade most of my cornea. Thankfully i had my bff staying with me. She drove me to meet the oncall doctor, while i was going slightly crazy with pain. Numbing drops so doctor could get near my eye, ointment for 3 days, plus the usual drops, and my cornea healed fine.
I finished with glasses full time due to heavy astigmatism, a very mild correction, leaving me with corrected vision of 20/20-20/25, whi h given that my CORRECTED vision prior to surgery was 20/40-20/80.
IOTW. I was driving on one legal eye.
Unfortunately, I suffered 2 issues common to extremely myopic eyes, one being myopic regression where some of my nearsightedness came back...landing me in bifocals, but still with marvelous vision when corrected. The 2nd was vitreous detachments, in my right eye about 2 mos after surgery, and in the left 3 weeks ago. Somewhere in ther I also developed a hellacious astigmatism in my left eye.
With all that, my corrected vision in the left eye is now 20/40.
A vitreous detachment is best described as "ya think you got floaters??!"
I'm getting new lenses, but need to raise the cash.
That said, though my surgical results sound scary, I would still do the whole thing over again in a heartbeat, though I'd pass on the corneal abrasion given the choice.
My vision is better even now than it's ever been, my glasses are thin bifocals instead coke bottle bottom trifocals.
Even better, I can safely walk outdoors without glasses, or foofle around indoors without. I can even read without glasses for short periods of time.
My mother other family members, and a friend have all had cataract surgery with no problems at all.
My issues were primarily due to how nearsighted I was, and my apparently deciding that rubbing my eye in my sleep was a good idea.
1 other thing. My surgeon offers a compounded eye drop that combines all the drops used after surgery into a single dose drop. He charged 50 dollars a bottle for that blended drop. I went through 2 bottles with-my surgeries. Ins won't cover in most cases, but those drops were the best 100 bucks I've spent in a long time.
Hope this helps.