Chasbo Chasbo

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cataracts

Who here has had cataract surgery?

So I'm getting cataract surgery. Right eye tomorrow and left eye next week. I'd love to hear if any of you have had this surgery and what it was like to go through. Did your vision improve? I also have macular degeneration. Wet in my left eye and dry in my right eye. Hell, I'm 73 and I guess it's time to fall apart! *_*  

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Reply #26 Top

I never heard the doctor say I have glaucoma. He said that as a result of surgery sometimes the pressure builds up. The vision being blurry in my surgical eye is getting better. In fact last night it was  almost gone! This morning it isn't  so good but it's still better than it was. I have to continue with eye drops for a while. 

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Reply #27 Top

Quoting Chasbo, reply 26

I never heard the doctor say I have glaucoma. He said that as a result of surgery sometimes the pressure builds up. The vision being blurry in my surgical eye is getting better. In fact last night it was  almost gone! This morning it isn't  so good but it's still better than it was. I have to continue with eye drops for a while. 
   

Sorry Chuck, it must have been someone else here, that said they also had Glaucoma.   Glad to here your vision is improving!

Reply #28 Top

The eye, right eye, vision is still blurry. It seems to slowly be getting better. I don't want them to do the left eye until the right eye gets better. I see them this coming Tuesday.

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Quoting Chasbo, reply 28

The eye, right eye, vision is still blurry. It seems to slowly be getting better. I don't want them to do the left eye until the right eye gets better. I see them this coming Tuesday.

I understand the blurriness can take up to four weeks to clear...for the eye to get used to the new lens.

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Quoting DrJBHL, reply 24

Cataracts and cataracts surgery were known in 980 CE. Abu-Sina'a (Avicenna) taught it in his teaching hospital in Isphahan, Iran. However, the procedure was first recorded in a wall painting in Deir el-Medina, Egypt around 1280 BCE.

Those wacky ancients just knocked the opacified lens out of the way, into the vitreous chamber, with less than ideal results, mostly blindness, so nothing lost nothing gained.

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Quoting Daiwa, reply 30

Those wacky ancients just knocked the opacified lens out of the way, into the vitreous chamber, with less than ideal results, mostly blindness, so nothing lost nothing gained.

"Couching" as it was called was a far less than ideal solution, indeed. I can't imagine suturing a cornea, nor replacing a lens without anesthetics, steroids nor antibiotics, anyhow.

Reply #32 Top

My right eye is much better now. Scheduled to do the left eye this coming Monday.

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Quoting Chasbo, reply 32

My right eye is much better now. Scheduled to do the left eye this coming Monday.

Great news! Best of luck with the surgery Chuck, and a rapid, uneventful recovery. My smilies aren't working. <insert a double thumbs up here>