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Had cataract op on right eye .Was told I would see distance and would possibly need reading glasses .I can only see very close up And everything is very blurry even looking acrosss the room .
can any body explain the reason for this happening.
i paid private hoping for good results. I feel really depressed at the outcome
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Night-Hawk Finnbar47
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The newer toric IOL models like from Tecnis have demonstrated a much smaller percentage that rotate, and if its going to rotate it usually happens within the first month after surgery and they can rotate it back up until a few months after. I think the risk of rotation on the newer models is fairly small like 1-2% or so.
With my high astigmatism, I went for a Tecnis toric monofocal with my researched knowledge about the low risk of rotation. I had asked my eye surgeon about the risk too and he has rotated them back before (though rarely was it needed) so I was prepared. I'm at over 2 months from my right eye cataract surgery now, and the toric does not appear to have rotated significantly since I'm getting near 20/20 day vision now and at my full dialted eye exam last week the autorefractor only showed about 0.5D cylinder residual astigmatism which was how much was expected. Before I had the IOL in that eye, I had about 3.0D cylinder, so its a big difference.
With that much astigmatism I had in the right eye originally, I had ruled out multifocal IOLs and even the Symfony Toric since they didn't come in models with a large enough cylinder, only the monofocal torics did.