Have a cataract in my dominant eye and needing help and information...

Typically Cataracts will not make your eye water, it could be from dryness. You could try over the counter lubricating drops.  Most likely I would say the cataracts are not from the yeast infections. If you have taken long term steroids this could possibly cause them. Most everyone will get some form of a Cataract as they get older and as long as it does not effect your vision or impair you in any way they typically wont remove them. Usually this is due to insurance. However not too many people get cataracts at 37. Do you know what layer your cataract is on? It could be a congenital cataract which basically means you were born with it and they usually do not progress. If it is a nuclear cataract they are slower growing.

Hi dw09

First I don’t think a yeast infection causes cataracts.  That can be treated with ivervthe counter meds or if you need something stronger see your family doctor.   If you find them reoccurring you might want to look into taking probiotics.  I used to get yeast infections but haven’t since I have been on probiotics and now stopped that in favour of kombucha.

Your eyes could be tearing due to dry eye.  Try over the counter artificial tears.  There are various brands - personally I use Systane Ultra drops.

Lastly your optometrist or opthamologist sounds very rude.  You might want to see someone else.  If you do have cataracts that need surgery to remove you’ll want someone to discuss options and preferences.  This person doesn’t sound like they would.

You are young for cataracts.  You’lll want a 2nd opinion anyways.  If your eyes can be corrected with glasses or contact lenses you’ll not need the surgery yet.  Insurance only covers once your eyes can no longer be corrected - worse than 20/40 (typically where one would fail drivers license vision test).  

Good luck to you.

A cataract isn't considered far enough along to be covered by medical insurance until the eye's vision can't correct better than about 20/40 with eyeglasses.  Though they can detect very early stage cataracts that don't affect the vision nearly 10 years before it becomes an issue to deal with.  That was the case for my right eye, I remember the eye doctor first mentioned seeing an early stage cataract back around 2007 and it didn't start to affect that eye's vision until 2015. And then for a year or two it just made it more nearsighted requiring stronger eyeglasses until finally they didn't help anymore and it got more blurry, so I then had cataract surgery 6 months ago.

I also have been told for several years by eye doctors I have dry eye (cornea surface is dry) that they can see.  But I haven't had any symptoms that I could feel or bothered me comfort wise, except very rarely on a very low humidity day sometimes.  But I was noticing a lot of variable vision in my right eye, somedays blurry others clear, or variation during the day/night.  So I've been using various lubricating eye drops as well as cleaning my eyelid at night with an Occusoft pad and I believe that has reduced the variable/blurry vision considerably.