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Neuroadaptation, Astigmatism (one eye), and Cataract Surgery

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david42586
david42586

I just finished the surgical part of cataract surgery (2nd eye was yesterday). My age is 74 and I was severely myopic (around -14 in both eyes) plus an age appropriate amount of presbyopia. My dominant eye also has moderate astigmatism but I cannot quantify that. However I do know that at this point (2nd day after surgery on the non-astigmatic eye and 9 days after the stigmatic eye) I am 20/20 in the good eye and either 20/25 or 20/30 (20/30 being the most recent measurement) in the dominant eye.

I chose fixed lOL's and being a lifetime glasses wearer I was OK with needing glasses full time. But my dominant eye vision is better than I expected here. I am wondering what are the chances that neuroadaptation will make my distance vision equivalent to 20/20 and how long should I wait before I decide that hasn't happened.

Thanks.

dave

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    jo61855 david42586

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    " I am wondering what are the chances that neuroadaptation will make my distance vision equivalent to 20/20 and how long should I wait before I decide that hasn't happened."

    If that hasn't happened by six weeks, it probably won't. Hopefully you won't develop PCO or another post-cataract surgery problem.

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