Unsuccessful cataract op.

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I have bad headache and my focusing is blurry, it is six weeks after my surgery. My vision is blurry with and without glasses, I wonder if I can have the op redone, . worried..

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    Hi Ricky, are you going back to either whoever did the surgery or your GP, sometimes an optician can help but you have to speak to one of the three.

    Please let us know the result and I hope everything is going to be OK.

    Regards

    Agnes

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    In you shoe size 

    my surgeon put a distance monocular first without ec

    Explaining to me I would loose near and intermediate vision 

    i could not even read the time in my phone forget n

    being at the computer for anything without readers

    unfortunately she operated in my dominant eye and they can get my other (left) eye to see near after multiple hard contacts etc , I could also not tolerate reverse vision 

    I am scared had second surgery 10 days ago my vision is worse than before the initial surgery

    I have recovered intermediate vision but is all blurred and nothing is nit if I can't drive or be spectacle free and even with glasses I do not see sharp 

    I am typing using readers ,tried driving this am and felt like crying 

    forget reading my iPhone I am using the iPad now 

    I now have the symphony Toric as I also had astigmatism

    my surgeon blames my brain as I had strabismus as a child 

    went to a second opinion before the inteaocular exchange to symphony but he was afraid ( world renown surgeon in Boston ) of surgical complications so went back to my surgeon 

    please if someone can help me understand my options now 

    lasik . Exchange ? To what 

    I have also developed a post cataract surgery posterior opacity and will need tag in few weeks as I was told , will this make a difference ? 

    I am only 48 and very scared 

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    I would say you don't need to go to another surgeon yet before first finding out what this one says the problem is.  I assume when you say your vision is blurry even with glasses, you mean a current prescription they've given you after your surgery, rather than an old one that would be the wrong power now after surgery?  A doctor would need to tell you if there some sort of complication from the surgery like an infection or unresolved welling. Although PCO, Posterior Capsular Opacification, is an issue that usually takes time to appear, occasionally it can appear right after surgery and cause cloudy vision (similar to the way a cataract does) and its something they can easily treat with a few minute laser procedure in the office. 

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