Cataract Surgery

2. Agree with you that the natural lens is the best. It is better than any IOL available on the market right now.

3. However, if your vision in one of the eyes has deteriorated too much due to the cataract, there is no reason to postpone the cataract surgery.

4. There is no problem in having a cataract surgery done in only 1 eye. I had the second cataract surgery done 17 years after the first one.

5. The adjustment due to the differences in vision in the 2 eyes are more due to the differences in the prescription for the 2 eyes rather than due to one having a natural lens and the other one an IOL.

I was similar somewhat to you I never wore distance glasses just reading glasses, ive had both eyes done my first eye which was my right one was done first because my sight wasnt good I couldnt read labels in shops I now can, had first eye done last June 2016 then the left one done in August, cant tell you anything about types of lens that other will talk about, my optician simply referred me to my GP who then referred me to the hospital, nothing was ever mentioned about types of lens the Consultant made that decision and that was fine.

If you have had your consultation with the consultant at the hospital then you should go with what he considers, if you havnt yet then it wont do any harm to let your GP refer you they will give you a good examination at the clinic then you can decide after that what you want to do.

Please let us know what stage you are at regarding your examinations then afterwards what you decide and especially how you get on, will be watching

Regards

Agnes

I had my right eye done a year ago. I had a couple of types of cataract: one of which kept passing through my focus point. The first thing that I noticed was how different vision between the two eyes was. Colour in one eye was bright and crisp: in the other eye, colour was very muted. I also found ghosting on the non operated eye difficult to cope with. My second eye was operated on on June. I have distance IOLs with one slightly weaker than the other. This was a clever plan to improve my near vision which hasn’t really worked.

Overall, I am very pleased. My distance vision is exceptional but I need glasses for reading and computer work. My optician suggested regressive lenses. These didn’t work for me. What has worked well is a £35 pair of glasses off the web to my prescription corrected for computer use. My slight disappointment is that I do get circles of light when looking at a point light source in a dark room ( my surgeon said my brain will adapt: my optician said that it will not resolve itself),and I have had a couple of episodes of ‘zig zag’ migraines.

Hi Brit,

I was told last year that I had a cataract in the right eye, but decided to leave well alone at the time.  I saw the  Consultant in June this year and he said that the cataract was very dense, when I asked what this meant, he said he would have to be extra careful doing the surgery.  By the time August came, the cataract was so bad, that I had no vision at all in the eye and decided that it was far too dangerous for me to continue driving, so stopped. 

My operation was two weeks ago and although I can now see brilliantly, the operation took much longer than normal and unfortunately was very painful.  He did apologise, but explained that it was due to the cataract being so dense.  What I'm trying to say is, don't leave it too long, it will have to done sometime so why not bite the bullet and go for it.   

My other one will need doing within the next few months and I won't delay on that one.  Good luck.