DIY post cataract surgery custom glasses
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After getting a not-too-satisfactory surgery and IOL implant (Vivity) on my left eye, I have blurry intermediate vision on my IOL and "cataracted" near vision on my other eye–not a great combination.
Here's how my vision was left:
If I don't wear my old glasses, I see OK with my IOL eye and really bad with my non operated upon eye.
If I do wear my old glasses, I see really poorly with my IOL eye and OK with my non operated upon eye.
I wanted the best of both worlds (or the least bad of both worlds) so I popped one of the lenses off my old glasses—so now I am somewhat functional until my next surgery ... which may be several weeks or months off because I am uncertain of what to do with my other eye since if I get stuck with intermediate vision in the first IOL eye.
Have any of you done something similar? How do you manage the time between cataract surgery without an appropriate prescription?
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dabears26858 RandallG
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I had about a year and a half between lens replacements. My prescription on my non-IOL eye was close to -7.0 so popping out a lens would not work due to different perspectives in each eye (one size was muuuch smaller than the other). I used a contact in my non-IOL eye and it worked great. The surgeon missed on my IOL eye and I often corrected it with a -0.75 contact also.
Yesterday I got my second IOL and it is dead-on. Tested 20/15 long and 20/25 near on a Vivity IOL. My first IOL was a 20/30 long (but fuzzy) and 20/25 near, so now I am going lens free in both.
RandallG dabears26858
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Thank you for sharing your experience, I will try a contact lens until the next operation.
And congratulations on your happy outcome!
anne31252 RandallG
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I got a quick refraction and bought a pair of cheap glasses from eyebuydirect. they do progressive lens pretty well. I waited a year for the second surgery so wasn't going to have a whole year with bad vision!