Looking for Feedback on Tecnis Symfony

Hi - providing an update for the sake of posterity in case anyone else has a similar problem.

I'm now 17-18 weeks post cataract surgery.  I've had dozens (no exaggeration) of appointments.  Surgeon, OD's, Glaucoma Specialists, Uveitis specialists as well.  

The primary issue(s) they were all treating was high eye pressure and repeated/recurring inflammation of the eye with no clear cause (especially this far out from surgery).

My eye pressure was high (30+) in my surgical eye, with no other illness or mitigating factor that would have caused it except for the surgery itself. 

Until two days ago, I was taking 3 out of the 4 most used glaucoma medications available. They helped keep the pressure down temporaily, but it would always spike back up.

When it would spike up to where it wouldn't go down, I'd go into their offices to have it looked at.  I'd be at work, in the middle of a meeting, and suddenly it was like someone put wax paper over top of my eye.

Right after surgery, I told my post-op OD that something wasn't right.  The symptoms I was having didn't align with what they said I should expect.  She kept blowing me off.   I get it - they do thousands of these surgerys a year.  They know the drill.  

However, that part was the most frustrating for me - if I didn't keep pushing the issue, I would have gone blind in my right eye.   Want to know why?

As it turns out, I had a steroid patch implanted during my cataract surgery.  It was supposed to dissolve in about 10 weeks.  It didn't.  Not only didnt it dissolve in 10 weeks, it didn't dissolve at 15 weeks either.  Once my surgeon noticed that it hadn't dissolved, we started all kinds of drops and waiting games to see how things progressed.   They didn't get any better - and actually started to get worse.

At that point, I was officially diagnosed as a "steroid responder", and had "steroid induced glaucoma".

The solution?  An in-house procedure to remove the steroid patch.  Terrible experience for me, but it was done in about 20 minutes.

I'm now about 8 days after that procedure and it has made a WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.  

At last check, the pressure in both eyes was 17.  My vision is mostly clear (still likely need an adjustment for near vision though).  I told my wife today that I've been waiting since November of last year to finally feel like my eye is "normal" again.  The difference is amazing.  Aside from some lingering ptosis/droopiness in my surgical eye, things are much much better now.

So there you have it.  I'll continue to monitor and update, but I wanted everyone to know about my experience.  It seems like it was the steroid all along.  I'd never had that issue before and apparently, with the group that did my surgery, they don't see it that frequently either.

They push thousands of patients through this place every year.  Virtually all are 55+.  Then, here comes this healthy 42 year old and I happen to be that one patient in hundreds that has a problem with the steroid.  One nurse who had been there for 7 years said she'd only seen 3 other people have to have the steroid patch removed - and I was one of them.  

The first doctor kept attributing my complaints to my age because I was still young enough to know what "good vision" felt like. She told me "this is your new normal" when I complained of blurry vision and cloudiness.   Had I listened to that advice, I'd have an irreversable sight-stealing issue in my right eye.

In the end, my advice is that if something feels off - tell someone.  I was reluctant to say anything and didn't want to come off as someone who complains.  Don't be reluctant to push them.  

I had a symfony put in a week ago.  I can see my phone just fine, and I used to use the large settings but I have since changed them to normal.  

I have some (permanent) retinal damage from my retinal detachment, but other than that I can see up close fine.

Do you know anyone whois a tennis player and had the Symfony lens implant??

I had cataract surgery done on my left eye.  I had a symfony toric lens put in,  Its been 12 weeks and so far I had PCO laser treatment done, after 8 weeks.  Also I had AK surgery done to relax the astigmatism.  Still I do not have the focus I thought I would have.  With my contact in my right eye I could easily read a license plate at about 100 ft.  Now with my left eye (symfony lens) I am lucky to read one at 30 ft.  Im wondering about what someone posted about neuroadaptation.  Does anyone know anything more abouy it?  I am postponing surgery on my right eye until I can figure this out.

I had symfony lenses placed in both my eyes approximately two months ago. They are absoletly fabulous. I had a cataract in my left eye only, but I was so myopic that I had to replace both lenses. Due to my myopic vision (-6.50 and -7.25), it was a bit dicey to caluclate the correct strength for the lenses. My final vision is 20/20 in my left eye and 20/30 in my right eye. Both the surgeon and I weren't happy that the right eye wasn't at 20/20, and we considered redoing the surgery. However, a huge bennefit of the slightly over corrected right eye is that my close up vision is absolutely phenomenal. I am 46 (early for a catatract, I know), and i was losing my upclose vision, Not anymore. Using both eyes, I can see my iPhone, read labels -- everything. To read very small print (less that 8pt, for example), I need good light. Midrange vision is excellent (computers, conversation with others, etc). My distance visions is slightly compromised because of the overcorrected right-eye, but not enough to need glasses. I did get a pair of glasses for driving that makes my vision a perfect 20/20. 

I do have two visual disturbances in my left eye that have taken tiime for my brain to adjust to. First, for some reason the edige of my pupil, at normal inside light, sits right on one of the rings of the lense. As a result, there is a shimmering that happens when light hits it just right. It drove me absolutly crazy for the first 6 weeks, but neruoadaption is happening and my brain is flitering it out - slowly. Now that i know it is going away, I'm not as freaked out as I was. Secondly, I have a starbust in my left eye at night with lights. I was horrified at first that i wasn't going to be able to drive at night, but again, my brain is adjusting. I don't really even notice the starbursts while diriving anymore, but do see them when I look at street lamps. My surgeon did give me drops that constrict my pupils, which completely ellimates the starbust. I used them for awhile, but I realized that I really don't need them.  

I spent a lot of time on the net looking at reviews for these lenses. So many people that post are the ones that have problems, which makes it seem like everyone has problems. I wanted to add a success story. I have worn glasses since I was 5 years old and now I wake up every morning with crystal clear vision. It is strange though . .  since I reached for glasses each time I woke up for 40 years, I still try to find them in the morning!