Glasses or no glasses while waiting for 2nd eye surgery
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I just got PanOptix IOL in my left eye last week. Right eye is in 3 and half weeks. I see horrible halos and stars at night. Hoping some of this will reduce as eye heals. Being in IT I am on computer most of the day. While reading is crisp with left eye, I can't use old glasses because vision is blurry and get headaches. Removed left eye lens (high prescription) from the glasses but didn't help. Surgeon says I can stop using glasses all together without any burden/risk on left eye. Without any glasses, when I look at computer screen I see blurry with right eye, left eye can see everything super sharp. I can't seem to adjust and find it annoying like hell...
Given IT is my bread and butter what do I do... put an eye patch on right eye? Reading glasses did not help either.
Question...what do folks do while waiting for 2nd eye surgery? Use an eye patch on 2nd eye? wear glasses and are OK with vision? Does removal of old lens for the operated eye help? or just wear no glasses at all and brain will adapt in few days?
Also thinking of getting Synergy lens for my right eye. Did anybody do PanOptix and Synergy Combo?
Thanks.
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Robert42113 hsharma
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I'm about to run into the same problem. Both of my eyes are roughly -12 D currently. I'm going to get one eye operated on in 2 weeks, then the second 2.5 weeks later, so in the interim I'll have a 12 D difference between the two eyes. Based on what people are saying, just popping out a lens is going to be a disaster, so I'm thinking just wearing a patch over the non-op eye some of the time, and glasses with a patch over the op eye at other times, is the best I'll be able to do. I have a long history of not tolerating contacts at all.
lucy_73160 Robert42113
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I had the same problem while I was waiting for the second cataract surgery. I had a month wait between surgeries. I was getting headaches and nausea because of the difference in the vision between my eyes. I bought a black patch off of Amazon. I did not like it because it felt tight and it would not let any light into my eye. I did not think that getting no light in at all was good for my eye. What I ended up using was a cotton oval pad that is used for removing eye make up. (I’m a woman so I had them on hand). I taped it on with surgical tape. It was comfortable, breathable, and it let light in. I am retired and due to Covid I was staying mostly in the house, so the appearance didn’t bother me. I did not drive with only having one good eye.