Seeing the edge of my IOL lens. Has anyone had this problem?
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i had a laser assissted cataract surgery 2 weeksnago on my left eye. i had the eyehance lens implanted
the surgery was quick easy, but i have been seeing a clear crescent almost like a tear drop. its fine in low light but really bothersome when i turn on lights or if I step outside. I see glare at the edge of the lens.
has anyone had this issue and does it ever go away?
the doctor quickly dismissed it. saying its normal.
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soks twinkle65715
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is it dark crescent? it appears that you have negative dysphotopsia. it is fine in low light because ND affects smaller pupil. if it is ND it may or may not go away. the fix is to reverse capture the iol - keep the haptics of the iol in the capsular bag but bring the iol anterior to the anterior capsule behind the iris. if you decide to do it do it sooner rather than later. i an assuming you have small pupils so you must have gotten good intermediate and near with the eyhance. good luck.
twinkle65715 soks
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its almost a clear cresent. like water or a tear drop lingering around the edge of my eye.
i really hope it diminishes would hate too go for another surgery. also my doctor has totally dismissed my concrn and said everything looks good.
soks twinkle65715
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you have negative dysphotopsia. mebbe wait for 4 months and then decide. it doesnt go away because pupil size reduces with age. lot of people confuse the two.
Spring1951 twinkle65715
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I recently had Tecnis 1 implants in both eyes and get quick flashing on the outer edge of the eye. It has not bothered me and I generally forget about it. It has been about two months on my LE and one month on RE and it is still there but occasionally only during a given day. My doctor said to worry if it is like a strobe light or have very large floaters.
KevinS22 twinkle65715
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had eyehance iols put in both eyes yesterday, now after some of the light disphotopsias had settled, I now have woken to the same thing you describe in both eyes, like looking at the outer edges of the iols, a dark curved or round line seperates your vision from what looks like water at the sides. I also have purple tone to colors especially in lower light and my right eye seems to have a haze. I really hope this is temporary as life like this is just not ok.
RonAKA KevinS22
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For reasons I don't quite understand some J&J lenses seem to have a ridge/ring around the outside. While they are claimed to be 6 mm in diameter I believe the optical area is less than that. The J&J lens is on the left and the Alcon Clareon is on the right. The optical area on the Clareon goes right out to the edge. The other difference you see is that most Alcon lenses have blue light filtering and have a slight yellow tint. What you may be seeing as purple could be chromatic aberration which mainly affects the blue/purple end of the colour spectrum. A blue light filter tends to reduce that effect.
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cat_mom twinkle65715
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I can't speak to seeing the edge, or anything re: the particular lens (I had Tecnis implanted in both eyes in July, and I still have large pupils at age 61). However, re: the purple tone, I can say that that should go away (unless you had tinted IOL's implanted?).
From what I read when I also experienced that early on, is that your perception of color is overcompensating (it's in a sort of hyperdrive) after having seen the world with a more yellow tint (from the cataracts) all this time. This should go away as your eyes adjust to seeing through clear and not yellowed lenses.