Flickering light after cataract surgery!

You will get used to it once you stop trying to look at it if you know what I mean.

Good luck!

I don't know if this will help or depress you (!) but I had cararact surgery in my right eye in mid september 2014. The procedure left me with vastly improved sight in that eye, by almost any measure going. There are three "down sides"

which I was warned about.

The first is that while I can see in stuning clarity and acuity anything from about eighteen inches from my nose all the way to the trees on the ridge line of the mountains eight or nine miles away, trying to eat a bowl of soup without first putting on my reading glasses (which bring the bowl intosharp focus at the cost of blurring everything further than two foot away) invites disaster and a laundry bill.

The second is that no lens is ever optically pefect over its entire diameter, and in my case that means in bright light I can read right to the very bottom of the eye test chart, but in dim light i lose two or three rows because the iris opens wider and collects light over the "imperfect" area which blurs the image on the retina. My optician carefully measures this in the two (12 mth apart) eye tests I've had since the surgery, I'm legally fit to drive and the degree to which this happens has remained unchanged since the op.

The third problem is again related to lower light levels. When the iris opens in dimly lit areas, or at night, or sometimes if I look sideways at something, light will hit the edge of the lens and briefly cause me to see a ring or partial ring of light. As you might imagine this is most often seen at night when I walk near street lights or have cars coming towards me with headlights on on unlit roads.

In my case, as with floaters, it scared the hell out of me the first time it happenned, but Ive got used to it as part and parcel of what for me is a huge improvement to severe myopia since birth. I'm sure other people have different degrees of experience.

I'll leave you with one cautionary word though. I've described the circular lines of light that I see. They are permanent, but your mind learns to ignore them.

But about a year before I had the cataract operation, I had strange flashes of light, like dots of light, flickering in the top corner of my sight. Remember that the image in your eye is inverted ... Those flashes turned out to be a couple of tiny holes in the retina that needed laser welding, nothing to do with the cataract at all. It MIGHT be worth a telephone call to the optician that referred you, or the aftercare number they gave you when you had the cataract done, because in my case anyway, the top outer corner of what you see is actually being focussed on the bottom of the retina nearest your nose, and THAT's where in my case anyway they ran the anaesthetic in for the op ....