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I had the Panoptix placed and having trouble adapting, its been 3 weeks. How long from your original surgery date does a person have to wait for a surgeon to agree to giving you a lens exchange?
Also is this something they are unwilling to do?
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RonAKA lani14140
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The sooner an exchange is done probably the better. I would think it is your decision, not that of the surgeon to do an exchange. The surgeon cannot see out of your eyes. Only you can.
soks lani14140
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what trouble are you experiencing?
lani14140 soks
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Looking through a haze and vision not as sharp as it was with my glasses. They are treating me for dry eye right now.
Seems worse when I am around lights, i.e. outdoors, at work, I do better in dim lit rooms.
007Bond lani14140
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You don't really say if you were wearing glasses for near or far or both. I think it's very hard for a multi focal lens to compete with a perfect prescription pair of glasses for distance or near. Even if you had a pair of progressive lenses you actually need to move your eyes up or down to see clearly near or far since the prescription is different for each. With the multifocal lens you are looking through the same lens for both your distance end your near vision. So it's really not a fair comparison The technologies are completely different. What multifocals offer are good vision from near to far without glasses. The lights illuminated displays computer monitors it took me some time to get used to. But I very much enjoy going through my entire day seeing from cell phone distance to Infinity without glasses. I do believe that if I had an IOL that was perfectly set for distance and then I also had a pair of reading glasses that were perfectly set for reading distance my vision would probably be a bit sharper and more crisp. But like I said I'm very happy with what I have it's extremely versatile.
007Bond lani14140
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Three weeks is in my opinion way too early to make a decision especially since you are probably still not off the drops. Dry eye is very real I experienced it myself during my surgery with the Panoptix. I really didn't have reasonable vision until a few weeks after I stopped all the drops which was about seven or eight weeks after the surgery. It clearly takes a few months to fully adapt to the Panoptix. I'll provide a link to my post for quite a while after my surgery I thought I made a big mistake but now I'm very happy and I'm planning to get a Panoptix in my right eye very soon. Do remember nothing is going to replace your natural lens and give you 2020 vision like you had when you were 20 years old. No matter what IOL you get there's going to be trade-offs. https://patient.info/forums/discuss/to-panoptix-or-not-to-panoptix-that-is-the-question--791385