Halos/haze with monofocal - looking for experiences
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Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has hazy cloud around lights with monofocal lens or lenses.
Anybody know/heard what causes it?
It's not the edge of the lens. It's not a negative dysphotopsia. It's not a multifocal or EDOF lens.
The haze is sometimes just a cloud of color, and sometimes it has very closely spaced halo lines. There is a moving quality to the hazy space sometimes, like smoke in a beam of light. I call that effect "lava lamp" even though that's probably not what a lava lamp is.
Occurs most with stoplights and brake lights.
Thoughts/experiences/researched information are much appreciated!
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tamarinda
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Adding more info: this is since right after surgery, lens is not out of place, no PCO present.
I'm currently two months out.
soks tamarinda
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mine is edof. i have a cloudy halo around lights. that halo got moving quality at 3 weeks post surgery which i attribute to PCO. the moving quality gradually worsened.
Sue.An2 tamarinda
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Does this happen all the time or only with lights at night? Although the rate of halos is certainly less with monofocal lenses some people do experience halos and glare with monofocal lenses as well. Most do subside after 6 months.
tamarinda Sue.An2
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Hi Sue An! As with the multifocal eye, it's worse at night. Since I have to decide whether to exchange this multifocal, I wanted to know if others have positive dysphopsia haze with monofocals. My monofocal eye seems to have some and so it complicates the idea of an exchange. If I'm going to lose some bilateral summation and the startling crisp detail I have at distance, and still not eliminate dysphotopsias, then there's probably no point it exchanging. All I would gain is better near contrast, and relief from ghost images. I'd love to eliminate the ghost images, of course. But need to weigh risks/benefits.
I have often heard monofocal folks get starbursts. I am wondering if others have this broad fluid hazy thing. (Thank you, soks, for your experience!)
Interesting side note: a friend's mother had Restor multifocals put in at age 83, two years ago. She has no halos, but also has need for eyeglasses: says she can't pick out the near rings and so doesnt get the multifocal benefit. Alas, if it ain't one thing, it's another! Hahaha...life.