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Hi All - i have high myopia ( minus ten point five ) i have been diagnosed with cataracts i am a sixty five year old female - i have been offered National Health Service ( free) cataract op here in the United Kingdom - any advice on plus factors of early surgery or should i wait ?
thank you for any advice here ?
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mak73 AFlower
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My piece of advice would be - if the surgery is inevitable in next 1-2 years, I don't see much sense to wait for these 1-2 years to end up with near 0 vision. If it is in 5-10 years then may be no need to hurry up. One of the reason to wait - maybe we will have some real revolutionary lenses in 5 years. But may be we will not, who knows... Anyway, the lenses we have now are pretty advanced and work very well for vast majority of people. I hope I will confirm it in few days. The biggest problem is to pick the type of lenses among of few. It is really tough choice I must admit.
Another reasoning for early surgery of high myopic eyes - you will get rid of myopia once and forever. This is HUGE bonus to getting rid of the cataract. I was terrified when I realized that I have to do the lens replacement. But now I can't wait when it happens. I want sharp vision instead of the thing that I have now and I can even barely call a vision.
Overall our bodies (including our eyes) do not get younger, better and stronger with the time. So the recovering after any kind of trauma or surgery should be more and more difficult (even though the cataract replacement is considered as one of the safest operations). The risk of "something goes wrong" during or after a surgery will always exist, no matter when you decide to do it.
I can only wish you good luck with your eyes.
Hudsongrl AFlower
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i am a 64 year old high myopic woman. i would wait until vision is at least 20/40 before I touched an eye. i did my right eye at 20/25 and had cornea edema. could not see my hand in front of my face for 4 days. it was terrifying. i'm ok now but not doing my left eye until I absolutely have to. there are risks to everything
Hudsongrl AFlower
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without a contact lens on your nonsurgical eye you will not be happy, the discrepancy between the eyes is too great. but if you opt for a contact lens in your non surgical eye you would be fine i think:)