Confused

FYI - Prior to my surgery I was wearing contact lenses.  The left lens was not a Toric lens, so I assumed I would not be getting a Toric IOL.  But apparently I had a small astigmatism in that eye and the doctor felt I would benefit from having a Toric IOL.  So I have Toric lenses in both eyes.

Yes - about $1300.00 each. My health insurance would have paid for the basic lenses, but if I did not get Toric lenses I would definitely be using glasses and I did not want that.  

A couple more questions - so do you think the only time you'll need glasses is to see really small print like on food cans and prescription bottles? Are the texts on your phone perfectly clear (not at all blurry) holding your phone at a normal distance?

And I know they could do limbal relaxing incisions but in no way, shape or form would I ever go for that.

I'm pretty sure my astigmatism isn't bad enough for a toric lens or my doctor probably would have mentioned it to me. Plus toric IOLs can rotate. So much to think about!

Plus I had LASIK vision correction so would be especially against having limbal relaxing incisions because of that, but I wouldn't let them do it even if I had not had LASIK.

I can read the very small print on the prescription bottle at about 16" (I actually measured the distance with a ruler for you)!  Very clear.  Texts on my phone are clear (text size on an iPhone is set right in the middle) at 12" (again measured for you).  Inside of 12" I feel cross eyed trying to read them, so I use glasses (cheaters).  I do not need glasses to read recipes or food cans.  Hope this helps. 

I do not know how having had Lasik affects IOL's so it would definitely be a conversation with your doc.  

Yes, it helps, thanks Pam!

One last question (for now at least!) - do you feel like you may need glasses at some point to drive at night or even during the day and night? Or is it perfectly clear? I read some people who get mini-monovision might need to wear glasses to drive either just at night or even both day and night. This question might not help me since you have toric lenses, but I'm just wondering.

And I finally got around to looking up how to enlarge the texts on my iPhone. For anyone else who needs to do this it's:

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Larger Text (or Larger Type in iOS 7).

Turn on Larger Accessibility Sizes (or Larger Dynamic Type in iOS 7) for bigger font options.

Drag the slider to select the font size you want.

And my iPhone 7 Plus also has a magnifier in the camera. I bought a magnifier but that will still come in handy since it's smaller.

And I can also use the Zoom feature on my iPhone 7 Plus, another thing I never paid attention to since I didn't need it.

It even has a special zoom setting for low light situations.

I just set up my iPhone so it has a magnifier on texts. Very cool! The only problem is what I would do if I changed to a phone with less features in the future.

And I really don't need it now especially, but if I decide not to get mini-monovision, it makes things a little easier to read (I can already read them without it though).