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Blurriness 1 week after cataract surgery

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michele40632
michele40632

Hi, I am panicking a bit and would love some feedback. I had cataract surgery a week ago. Vivity Lens was my choice after doing lots of research. Since prior to my cataracts, I have always had 20/20 distance vision, I wanted great distance and intermediate vision. I was perfectly okay with needing readers for close up. But instead, I have great close up vision and blurry distant and intermediate vision. Yikes!

I'm hoping that I am just one of those people who heal a bit more slowly and that my distance vision will improve over time. But I am supposed to have another surgery next week and I'm now not confident about getting another Vivity Lens. I will see my doctor in 2 days and of course, I will report all of this and get his feedback. But has anyone had blurriness for an extended period of time and had it improve completely? I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences. THanks!

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  • RonAKA
    RonAKA michele40632

    Posted

    I have only had monofocal lenses and not the Vivity. My recollection is that after 1 week my vision was pretty good but not perfect. It is possible that you are just healing slowly, but it is also possible your surgeon had a bit of a miss on the power selection. My thoughts are that since it takes about 6 weeks for an eye to fully heal after cataract surgery, it is always prudent to wait 6 weeks or more before doing the second eye. At 6 weeks you get your eye prescription exam and you will know where you stand. With that information you can make a better decision on what to do with the second eye. The surgeon also should be very interested in what the outcome was compared to what was predicted. It will allow the surgeon to make an adjustment on the second eye and potentially have a more accurate outcome.

    • michele40632
      michele40632 RonAKA

      Posted

      Thanks! I appreciate your response. Today was a bit better. Surgery was 7 days ago.

    • RonAKA
      RonAKA michele40632

      Posted

      Where I am in Canada the normal practice is for the ophthalmologist to do an exam 24 hours after surgery to see if there are any immediate issues which should be corrected. Then another exam is done at 3 weeks by an optometrist. At this point they should be able to tell if there are any issues with the lens position plus get a better measure of visual acuity. A third exam is then done at 6 weeks where they should do a full eye exam and provide an eyeglass prescription.

    • Spring1951
      Spring1951 RonAKA

      Posted

      That sounds like wise advice. The problem is that my doctor scheduled me for two weeks after which I thought was rather rushed and now I need to try to change it. They must have some reason for moving the date so close to the first one?

    • RonAKA
      RonAKA Spring1951

      Posted

      They do it for their own convenience. Some surgeons will push to do both eyes at the same appointment. It maximizes their profit! I would not accept anything less than 6 weeks between surgeries.

    • Spring1951
      Spring1951 RonAKA

      Posted

      I am SO glad I got this information from you as I feared the two week lapse knowing I would need more time to recover. I am with an HMO, Kaiser, so there would be no profit for the doctor but I will say she seems to almost be trying to sell me into doing this which I thought odd. Maybe she needs more experience and afraid of people backing out as they get more information? Who know?

  • hugs16106
    hugs16106 michele40632

    Posted

    Hi, Michele. My eyes were a bit blurry (hazy rather than out of focus) for around 4 weeks post-op, with the blurriness gradually diminishing each day. In my case the blurriness was just about gone by lunchtime, back the next morning, though, rather than varying over different distances (my surgeon's info-pack mentioned this as a possibility, so I was less concerned). I think the info mentioned retained fluid which drains away in the course of the day in this case. I also had strong diagonal distortions through direct bright lights for a few days after surgery in each eye, resolving by day 5, so there was certainly some swelling to settle. Again I was forewarned not to worry for the first 6 weeks or so, by which time all was good.

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