Zeiss AT Lara edof (like Symfoni) implant

Hi there

Yesterday I had the Zeiss At Lara implanted i my dominant eye, in about 5 weeks the other eye will be done.

I am born with cataracts in both eyes, so I have never had good vision, so my experience might be different than others that chooses this lens.

For me the result is absolutely fantastic!

I am almost embarrassed to tell about it in this forum, because I have seen so many people having big problems with their lenses, and I feel so sorry for those who have these problems, but for me this lens have invited me into a world I have never been in before, I really feel that I have landed on another planet in a science fiction movie.

Everything about my vision have changed so much, almost kind of psychedelic, but in a good way off course.

Contrast is unbelievable, in the sunlight I have never before been able to see what is in the shadows, now I see everything.

Colors are almost exploding, all colors are so bright and deep, even black is more black.

My perception of depth is very different, it feels like I have been living in 2D and now it has become 3D.

I see details I have never seen before, some of them needs a little time to get used to, like grey hair and dust, that suddenly was present after the surgery 😃

Also my hands have become very ugly i think, but off course it is a part of the package.

My distance vision is great, it is very clear 20/25 and still improving by the hour (before it was 20/40 on a good day in the right lighting), reading vision is not quite there being a little blurry, and off course real reading vision is not to be expected from the At Lara, but I can read J3 without glasses, and with cheap reading glasses J1 is razor sharp.

I have never had real reading vision like this before, with or without glasses, all my life I have read papers by making a funnel with my fingers and looking though the hole between the fingers reading one word at a time.

It is not even 24 hours since surgery, so I guess many things might still change.

On pc screen with black background and clear white text (that I have used all my life because of the cataracts) there is a bit of glare around white text, but I see great anyway, and I expect it to go away - but it does not really bother me that much if it stays.

Other than that, I have not noticed any side effects during daylight.

I took a walk yesterday when it was dark, about 8 hours after surgery, so I guess it can change a lot.

Around lights that are near to me there was a little bit of glare, lights that was a bit further away had a little bit of starburst, lights even further away had nothing.

But the glare and starburst are kind of vague, and I can still easily see the lamp that are lighting through the glare/starburst, and none of it is bothersome at all.

Apart from that, night vision is pretty fantastic, I never new that other people can see this much in the dark, I almost felt like they had giving me the eye from a cat or something 😃

With just a little bit of streetlights I could see the entire road and all the details on the road, just like it was not really dark, even that it was, so I will have no trouble at all driving or whatever in the nighttime.

For me this At Lara lens feels like the perfect choice, I feel very lucky, the contrast sensitivity/loss is similar to monofocals, but still it can make up to +2, so you can get by on a daily basis without reading glasses, but I guess if you are a bookworm, and read a lot on a daily basis, you might find the reading ability lacking a little without glasses.

Anyway, that was my store, I really can not wait with the second eye, but Zeiss can not deliver the lens before, it is being made to my measurements, so I guess I just must be patient 😃

Cheers

Christian

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