I'm scheduled for left eye on Tuesday and the right the following Tuesday. I am so nerved up

Hello Victoria, what type of cataract surgery are you having?  Just want to wish you luck

I meant multifocal or mono?

Sorry sent to the worng person obviously - duh me

Hi! Thank you for responding. I read it twice because I know about them get rid of it and all thoughts! lol

them=they

I am getting mono, for near vision. My other eye had a macular pucker so it will never be very good but now I'll have semi-automatic bifocal.. I tried it woult with dollar store reading glasses and took the lens out from the left side to see how I'd like it. Worked fine.

Best of luck for tomorrow. Please keep us informed of your progress

Thank you ever so much about remembering me. I'll post how it went. I think I found at least one new friend on here! You are very kind. Take care til we chat again

 

Oh gosh really?  Over here in the States I had my left eye done 2 weeks after the right!!!  The surgery was fine - absolutely painless but I don't recall any of us here being given valium?  We had 3 types of eye drops that we had to start a week prior to the surgery and continue for a further week.

 

Yeah, I'm due to see my consultant on Tuesday when we will discuss what lens I want for my left eye. I reckon by the time I get the second eye done it will be nearly 12 weeks between operations.

I didn't get any Valium or any other drugs post operation (except for the eye drops anaesthetic) in fact my pre-op happened the day before the surgery and that's when they measured my eyes for fitting.

Am going all bonkers today.  For some reason I read 5 weeks as 5 years.  I do need to take a valium (ha ha) tonight!!!

What type of lens did you get on your right eye?  Wouldn't it be the same for the left?

And now I'm really curious.  Why is it that everyone gets cataract in the right eye first?  Just asking the question out loud.  Will google it.

I don't know what types. The surgery was planned by my doctor. Thanks for responding!

 

I got a single focus distance lens in right eye. Options for the left eye are; distance, near (monovision) or go private for a multifocal lens.

I've still not made up my mind on this, after surgery on the right eye I tried monovision using a contact lens in the left eye and I took to it very well, unfortunately after about a fortnight my right vision deterioated from better than 20/20 to less than 20/30 and that made me turn to trialing multifocal contacts in my left eye. After three weeks of this I still can't adapt to the multivision lens - distance is good but I can't see any near or intermediate!

That's the reason I asked about getting both eyes done within two weeks of each other since my first eye has changed a bit since the initial operation.

Hi, I will reply you tomorrow. Initially I joined a different forum and still am in it. Today, let's wish 2MichNancy the very best of luck for a successful surgery tomorrow.

Agree wholeheartedly

Hi, sorry I could not reply yesterday.  Should have wished you luck too.  What was the decision made on your left eye?

I can't write much here because the topic/s seems to be different, but if you want to get more info on multifocals find me on the forum on starburst and halos.  Am not in a good place..... many others too. Do not want to make anyone on here nervous.  See you on the other side

Yeah, I could write a book on my experiences this year lol.

To be fair most of my problems have stemmed from a retinal detachment surgery I had in February and not the cataract surgery.

my macula inflammation is healing nicely and visual acuity is back to 20/20, so I'm going for mono vision as I can't seem to get to grips with multifocal contacts.

Thanks for the moral support 👍

Great decision. If I had the choice or knew what I know now I would have got the mono. I think it is much safer.

I went to a new opthalmologist who thinks I may have macular degeneration on my left eye. So I see a retina specialist on the 22nd. Me thinks she's wrong, but hey am not a doctor so will go see the new specialist

We can't be friends?

Re he drops prior to surgery - find it odd each country has different procedure. I am scheduled for surgery in 3 weeks. Prescribed 2 kinds of drops to start 2 days prior to surgery.