Cataract surgery

Thanks!

I'm having it done in February.
Good luck Lucky girl, I hope it goes well.

I have a date for op on both eyes - it is next Monday 21st. All I can do is cross my fingers and hope all goes well.

I have been warned that I am unlikely get as good a result, in terms of absence of blurring, as most people as I have epiretinal membranes (like a net curtain over the retinas) and cystic spaces in both retinas. I am likely to need the ERMs operated on at some point as well.

All I can do is hope for the best.

By the way I was told that the idea that the cataract should ripen and get to a certain stage before surgery is now outdated and they say the sooner you get them done the better.

I must stop googling all the possible complications!

I too am very short sighted, always have been about - 10 ! I had my first cataract done about 5 years ago and was advised by the Consultant to have a lens fitted for distance vision , which has worked very well . My other eye I wore a contact lens slightly weaker than normal vision . Now I’m waiting to have surgery on that eye and have been advised to have the same - middle vision , to enable me to see most things except for reading and close work . Let’s hope it works out although happy to use reading glasses as and when . I don’t drive so that’s not an issue . When I’m a passenger especially at night , I know that my vision is not good enough to do so.

My Ophthalmology appointment is next Friday (28th) afternoon. I’ll report back with any updates.

I had this exact same surgery but to correct severe myopia in 2018. It was just under £4,000 per eye. I wanted varifocal iols but like you, also have very “bad” eyes in terms of their structure.
So I had to have lenses fixed for distance. This didn’t work for me as felt that after spending so much money, I didn’t want to have to also have reading glasses. So one eye was reduced for vision by laser therapy (lasex) and I now have mono vision, which works v well for me, but not for everybody (one eye is for distance, the other for reading). Unfortunately, I also have double vision so have to wear glasses anyway, with prisms in them just for driving and sometimes for watching tv.
I still don’t have very good night vision at all. I have driven for 45 years so am a confident and experienced driver but nowadays alarmed at the lack of night vision eg still find road signs difficult to read at night, even if backlit. I find those yellow tinted wrap round over-glasses quite helpful to reduce glare.
I also see concentric circles briefly when looking into any bright light, when in the dark, but I’ve got used to that now.

I have both eyes done and had a detached retina in both eyes prior to this. Been very happy but still have to use specs for reading. Good luck.

Had a recent eye test, optician said there was the very beginnings of cataracts so I should wear reacter light glasses. Reduce the sun damage. Sorry no help to you but perhaps a warning to other of us oldies

It’s amazing, I’ve had both mine done. It looked like I was looking at everything through a sepia film! That’s now gone and colours look beautiful again. I can’t praise it enough.

I have an eye condition as well. Its called Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy, it affects the cornea and I was very frightened that the cataract operations would affect my long term sight but I had a general anesthetic for both eyes. If they feel you need extra care you will get it. The day after the first eye, I could already see a vast improvement. It was as if somebody had switched the lights on and also the colour, it was a revelation and I could see curbs when driving at night. It wasn't until after the operations I realised how much I needed them. Don't be scared or anxious it's the best thing ever.

I have had both done, they did them about 4 months apart. they were done as out patient and each one took about 30 - 40 mins. After they were done I had to put drops in several times a day for a month. When the 1st one was done I was amazed how bright the colours were, if I looked through the non operated eye it looked like a yellowish film over everything. Yes I was nervous when the 1st one was done but not when they did the 2nd one. Definitely worth having done. I had then done in an eye hospital.

My husband had his surgery on the 1st September. He had previously had an retinal tear in that eye which a few years later became a detachment. Our local hospital did ( could not ) do the cataract surgery
So he was referred to an eye hospital.
He had the surgery without any complication and is happy with the result.
New specs will be ordered at the end of the month.
Could your hospital refer you to an eye hospital ?
My husband is glad he went to his inspite of an over 200 mile round trip for us to have it done.

I had cataract surgery years ago
Done under GA (as I have a thing about eyes ) Luckily my optician then told me the NHS was going to restrict it and I was doing a lot of driving at night as I was a Night Nanny changed my life My sister (who lived in Canada ) had to wait till she was more or less blind

Oh - anyone with dry eyes like me? Do take starflower oil capsules. They take a couple of months to kick in but they've made such a difference!

My husband has just had his second one done. He's incredibly squeamish about anything medical but was absolutely fine. He has a complicated eye history (posner schlossman syndrome - probably spelt wrongly) and also, at one point he'd have one tear in his retina fixed then it would tear somewhere else. But the results of his cataract operation have been great. I hope that yours goes well, too.

Had mine done exactly a week ago. I have only been a passenger at night in the rain, but noticed an improvement in my sight straight away. I will start driving at night now having given up a bit 12 months ago. No problems at all simply a feeling of having sand in my eye for less than 24hrs.

Had left eye operated on 4 years ago…it didn’t go right…..I ended up with a Ptosis which they said was caused ‘partly’ by surgery so offered a repair ( eyelid lift) ….that took a year to arrange as NHS didn’t want to pay for ‘cosmetic surgery ‘ but they eventually said ‘yes’. Had that done and the surgeon admitted he’d taken too much out of the eyelid …which left me with an eye that would not close properly….so that had produced a ‘dry eye’ problem and two years of eye exercises to correct. Eye drops for life which I have to pay for and they cost £10-12 a tiny bottle! And after all this I’ve been left with what feels like a piece of wood splinter on my eye ….horrible feeling and it never goes away. Now I need my right eye operated on…. Think you know my response to that. Apparently I’ve been told that 1 in a 1000 ‘dont work out correct’ ….hmmm ….doesn’t cut any ice when you’re that person.

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I had my right eye dome in April, I was pleased to find that everything looked so colourful again, because everything seemed to have a grey screen over it before. After a few days I realised I could no longer read my messages on my phone without wearing glasses, which I could do easily before. I was hoping my sight would get better in time but 6 months later I have to accept that my eyesight in the right eye is now worse.
I don’t think I will have the left one done now.

In what way is it worse? I am expecting to go on wearing glasses after the op - I hope for varifocal glasses so that I do not have to keep changing them to read. It is swings and roundabouts a bit I am led to believe. I am guessing that after the op I will be able to see distance better, but need reading glasses/varifocals.

I am not concerned about the op itself as I have previously had treatment for a torn retina and that was not a bit scary.

I had my right eye dome in April, I was pleased to find that everything looked so colourful again, because everything seemed to have a grey screen over it before. After a few days I realised I could no longer read my messages on my phone without wearing glasses, which I could do easily before. I was hoping my sight would get better in time but 6 months later I have to accept that my eyesight in the right eye is now worse.
I don’t think I will have the left one done now.

Had both mine done early this year , its like taking film off your eyes the only drawback for me is a little dryness and a glare at night when driving so I use the yellow glasses , it’s the best thing I have done

I had both my eyes done a few years ago. Left one first which unfortunately didn't make any difference. For the second one, because of this, they made adjustments to their measurements and thankfully the second one worked. What a difference. I could even read a paper with that eye. Hospital told me I might have problems with varifocals as one eye was so much worse than the other, but it was fine. They can't operate again on the one that didn't work unfortunately, but I've got one very good eye so to my mind worth doing.

I had both mine done just before lockdown, one on the NHS and one privately as the NHS said my second eye didn't qualify! The difference has been amazing. I hadn't realised I had been looking through a brown fog until afterwards when I discovered I was wearing a pretty lilac-coloured skirt, not the grey one I thought I had!! Now I can drive in the dark and match colours. I still can't quite get used to being slightly long-sighted rather than very short-sighted, and I still have to cope with very many floaters, but the difference overall is just amazing.
Friends who have had theirs done recently tell me that the anaesthetic is given in the form of drops rather than by injection, and that the NHS only uses non-corrective replacement lenses I had the choice of lens three years ago. Back then, I had my hospital assessment on a bank holiday Saturday, and, much to my amazement, on the following Tuesday I had a phone call from the eye clinic saying they'd had a last-minute cancellation, and could I be at the hospital within the hour!! Absolutely I could!!
I think aftercare is a bit different too, and some people even have both done at once as a result!
Go for it and enjoy your improved eyesight for the rest of your life

I had a cataract removed from my right eye three years ago.

The op. (laser surgery) took about forty minutes. I had no pain either during the op. or later that day.

I had been told they could not completely correct my sight - something I had not envisaged, as I have worn glasses due to astigmatisms in both eyes since the age of seven. My expectation was to see as I had before the cataract formed,

Instead I now see better with my right eye than I ever remember doing.

I have an appointment to have the cataract in my left eye assessed towards the end of November and I hope it will be possible to have that cataract removed soon, too.

I hope you have as good a result as I have had.

I have quite literally spent more uncomfortable half-hours at the dentist's than having a cataract removed.

Both mine have been done and I can read newspaper print without glasses. I have mono vision. 2nd surgery done 8 yrs ago and I'm 80+.

Southdowns I was encouraged by a friend who had both her eyes treated - I was horrified at the prospect and asked her how she could bear to have her eyes touched. She talked me through what had happened, and gave me the courage to go ahead when new lenses were offered. I didn't mention that the procedure took about ten minutes, and I had no side effects - vision was outstandingly good from the moment I walked out of the clinic. Four weeks of drops - no great problem - I have never been more pleased with anything in my life, and so grateful to the NHS.