Post - Surgery: Testing 20/20 at Doctor's, But Can't See - PanOptix
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I'm starting a new thread with a weird problem. Today I had surgery done on my 2nd eye. Like my first eye, my vision, of course, hasn't completely returned yet. My surgeon does follow ups the day of surgery, so he checked me out today. The tech gave me a reading test and I scored 20/20 in the first eye- with a minus something (can't recall) meaning I am seeing better than 20/20 (?) and good distance-wise with today's surgical eye.
What I don't understand is: if I am getting great numbers at the doctor's, why is it that I cannot read yet due to severe blurriness? Even mid-distance is blurry (computer), and I have to use reading glasses for both. I realize it can take time for things to come together, but this doesn't make sense that my vision is great during testing but not in "real life." The tech said I need more light and to stop relying on Readers so my eyes can adjust, but without Readers, I cannot function. Before today, I wore a contact in my non-surgical eye for distance/mid range but couldn't read at night once I took out the contact, so just read my Kindle with the book up to my face using my non-surgical, weak eye.
Too early to tell what my close/mid range vision is in the new surgical eye.
Did anyone else have this problem? I'm two weeks out today with the first eye.
Thanks-
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terrym
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Sue- I am so sorry you're dealing with this. Did the surgeon ever take ownership for this issue? Or would it have happened regardless? And why? I'm not sure I understand how this happened, but it sounds terrible and I really feel for you.
Hopefully it'll continue to improve and you won't have to consider surgery down the road.
Thinking of you-
T.