Cataracts early symptoms

yes l guess because it happens slowly its hard to notice the changes until its significant, l think l notice slightly misty vision but only outdoors , probably because of the sunlight passing through the cataracts

let us know your results.

thanks

Good luck next week, yes l'm also 48 , did they say why you got it at a young age, l'm not sure why l got it unless it has something to do with the glaucoma l already have or perhaps too much UV sunlight. What type of lens did you decide to go with?

Thank you 😃 Will do.

Hi @john20510 - they don't know. I don't fit any of the pre-reqs (i.e. steroids, too much UV light (I lived in Scotland for over 14 years and hardly ever saw the sun, ha ha!), diabetes, etc.). The only thing I can think of is that I had a REALLY bad eye infection when I was 17 when my parents were out of town (in both eyes, but worse in one of them) and they were gobsmacked when they arrived and saw my eyes. The doc at the time said that much longer and I would have gone blind. So that may fit the pre-req of 'trauma'...maybe! Also, my father was exposed to a lot of agent orange in Viet Nam - so who knows!

After much deliberation, and loads of stress thinking about it, I decided to go with what my surgeon recommended - Symfony in dominant eye and Synergy in the other. This combination seems to help with a lot of the issues highlighted on this forum and my surgeon will also use laser in the procedure. He has a stellar reputation and I am hoping he is right! He sent me to see a retinologist to get cleared for surgery as I am near sighted and the retinologist also said this combination is a good one.

Wishing you all the best on your journey 😃

Do you know what if anything caused you to get cataracts at a younger age , l dont know what caused mine. l think only around 5% of people get them at our age under 50

My retinologist told me that there are 12 different kinds of cataracts - wow!

I have no idea what caused it. Bad luck? Only common cause for my age (and sub-capsular) is diabetes. I haven't done any tests to rule that out but I highly doubt it. I have no symptoms, I'm a normal healthy weight, I'm very physically active, I have a healthy diet and for 5+ years I've barely eaten any sugar. No sweets, chocolate, squares, pie, ice cream, flavoured yogurt… none of that. Plus I check labels of things like condiments and sauces. My daily sugar intake is probably well under 10 grams.

The only way to know if you have diabetes or not is to get tested. There are three types of tests you can get; A1C, Fasting BG, and Oral glucose tolerance test. A1C is the easiest to get done. If it is marginal then best to get the other two done too.

l had a test a few months ago where they prick your finger and take a drop of blood and it gives an instant result, it said l was negative for diabetes , is that enough to know l dont have diabetes or should l also get a blood test where they take blood from the vein in your arm, but l hate that

The finger test is a hint of potential issues if you take it first thing in the morning before you eat anything. It is more accurate if you have eaten a meal with lots of carbs 12 hours before the test. That is essentially a fasting test. But better still is to get a proper blood sample. That can be used to do both a fasting test and an AIC. The A1C is an average based on the last three months and can be taken at any time.

My earliest symptom of a cataract was seeing double vision when watching TV. Then I noticed that in comparison to my less advanced cataract eye whites were more yellow. And after I got my IOL, the "good" eye started looking more yellow than the IOL eye, where where the whites were very bright white.

As far as I know, the most common cataract is senile, which is a natural aging process of the lens that occurs from 50 or 55 years of age. But there is also congenital cataract, more common in children and adolescents. There is also the traumatic one, which, as the name implies, originates after an injury suffered in the eye. Furthermore, there are cases in which the origin cannot be determined. Depending on how it forms in the lens, it can still be Nuclear (it appears in the very center of the eye), Cerulean (characterized by small bluish dots), Anterior Polar (when it occurs in the front of the lens) and Posterior Polar (opacity in the region later), which seems to be your type. Depending on the origin and type, it results in different symptoms for each individual. In my case, it started after the age of 50 and evolved very slowly and, being a Nuclear type, initially I even liked its effects, because it gradually became myopic, bringing me back the close vision that I had lost to presbyopia (after 44 years old), so I thought that a miracle had happened, because I stopped wearing glasses for all tasks (my presbyopia was cured...), on the other hand, I was noticing the degradation of my distant vision, which became duplicated. Now, at the end of 2021, in the last stages, I was already wearing glasses (for myopia, which looked like bottle bottoms) and without them I couldn't see at any distance anymore. I operated on my first eye in December 2021 and only then did I realize how much light and contrast I had lost in all this slow process. It was a dazzling experience to see things around me, with colors I didn't even know they really had. The cataract, in addition to blocking the light, it adds the yellow color to everything you see and, with this mixture, the color palette you see are no longer the real colors, they become others. I spent several days surprising myself with vivid colors that before were just dark tones.