Color changes after cataract surgery

Are you saying I wasn't seeing the true color of her hair before? This was just the tips. I'll have to ask others who were there today if that's what it looked like to them. That'll answer it for me I guess. 

My husband just noticed better color after his were done-more vibrant, esp blues. 

BTW, I never felt the cataracts caused my vision to be cloudy. Even though I know that's what it is- a clouding of the lens. With me it was more that they could no longer correct me to 20/20. I think i was corrected to 20/50 or maybe 20/40.

Cataracts likely affect the vision differently for each person.   For me I experienced less contrast - especially at night although daytime too. This caused a lot more glare with night driving.  Was also seeing double and unbeknownst to me at the time it did cause everything to have a yellowish brown tint.  Whites were so much whiter after surgery.   So if I looked at something with cataracts features were blurry/fuzzy so I wouldn’t know if something was a bit off colour wise.

But it is a fact that many with grey hair will see it turn yellowish with heat.   So if your friend uses a hair drier or flat iron or curling iron - spends time outside in sun then it can definitely have an affect on the colour of her hair.  

Is it possible your friend’s hair hadn’t completely gone grey - perhaps natural or coloured hair still visible on tips?

In the eye done for distance three days ago,  I don’t have good near or intermediate vision but it’s not a problem because I’m using both eyes together  Even though I’m not aware of it , I guess I must be using my left  (near vision)  eye for those distances  because I. have no problems reading at those distances. 

Then, in that case, if you don't have good vision at any distance, you probably have ended up with significant farsightedness. (which unfortunately is worse than ending up with slight nearsightedness).

Thus, a guess that "your surgeon picked a wrong prescription for your second eye" is still quite probable.

I don’t believe she’s done anything differently either with her hair. It is your vision that has changed.  Perfectly normal that one sees differently once cataracts are removed.

That sounds unusual to me. Most people with a new IOL are almost blown away by how bright and vivid the colours are. When I had my first eye done, it was almost like getting a new super HD LED TV. My symptoms of a cataract was that I was seeing double vision. I did not know other than reading about it, that the colour of my vision had probably changed. But when I got the first eye done, it became super apparent. My left eye which had a much less advanced cataract all of a sudden was making the whites look yellow. Whites with the new IOL eye were bright white and if anything the whole range shifted to the blues. During this time with only one eye done everything looked much better with both eyes open. I seemed to suppress the yellow from the natural cataract eye. The lens I got in this first eye was a blue light filtering type that has a slight yellow tint (to filter out blue). But, this effect must be very minor, because that eye was very bright white, while my natural cataract eye was obviously shifting everything to the yellow.

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I recently had my second eye done to give me mini-monovsion with a slightly different lens. The first lens was an AcrySof IQ, and the last one was a Clareon. Both have blue light filtering. Now with both eyes done, I do not notice any difference at all in the colour I see when I switch between eyes. Both are giving me a bright white when looking at whites. I notice now that on a clear night with a full moon the moon looks almost bluish. I had gotten used to it looking yellow....

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My thoughts in your case is that something is not right. Sometimes surgeons inject an antibiotic as part of the surgery, and they also use many different eye drops prior to the surgery. I'm wondering if something like that could be causing it. If that is the case it should go away.

I believe that this post-op effect can actually be caused by some medication and should go away. As for the color change after cataract surgery, I believe it depends on how bad the cataract was. In my case, which was already well advanced, after the surgery, the color change was dramatic! As the cataract adds yellow to everything you see, if you remember to mix the primary colors, you will get Yellow(from cataract)+Red=Orange, Yellow(from cataract)+Blue=Green, Yellow(from cataract)+Red +Blue=Brown. In short, all colors are changed. I was fascinated, as I saw many Browns in place of real Purples, many Oranges in place of real Reds and many Greens in place of real Blues, etc. After the surgery it was like seeing a different world.