What a cataract looks like from the inside....

[Fat Tone]

Me!

[Dr Mordrid]

Doc, do you have a good link to the info on your cataract procedure? I have a friend that I'd like to pass the info to without exposing him to the full horrors of murc

He's just been diagnosed with cataracts in both eyes. He's ~64 and has a very delicate heart.

Glad to help

Crystalens home.....

My exact procedure (YouTube)....

If you want let him read this as well;

I'd go with either a fixed focus or the Crystalens and not multi-focal. My mother-in-law had one done with multi-focal and it drove her nuts to the point of replacing it with a fixed lens and doing the other eye likewise. Problem was it displays multiple images like tri-focal glasses, which many people can't get used to either, and can glare more than the others at night.

Crystalens costs more, of course, but consider this: Tuesday I went back for a checkup and the vision in that eye is now 20/20, and the Dr. says by another month it'll be even better as the eye adapts (!!!!)

Hard to believe, but then the implant is more optically 'perfect' than a natural lens. To say I can't wait for Oct. 7 to get the other one done is the understatement of the century.

All I'll need as far as glasses goes is a very slight correction for a corneal astigmatism that I had before the surgery. The Crystalens itself took care of the age related myopia completely. It can 'do' hyperopia too.

And let me emphasize again: the surgery was fast and NOT painful. Post-op the discomfort wasn't even as bad as when I've had grit in my eye that hurt for a couple of days after getting it out - something we've all experienced. Very minor in intensity.

Just sit back and watch the light show....and you really can't see the instruments either because of the microscope being there and the inability to focus that close - especially after the cataract is extracted. All you see are 2 small bright lights on the 'scope, and even they're blurry until the implant goes in, then POW! The scope goes away and you get your first taste of what it can do. By that time you're ~3 minutes from the recovery room.

Biggest sensation was slight pressure, and even that only for a second or so. No harder than if you rubbed your eyes through the eyelids from the side. Try it - no biggie.

The worst part of the surgery was getting all the anesthetic eye drops in pre-op (not painful, just annoying) and that @#$^&!$ automatic blood pressure cuff in the OR that tried to remove my arm

Post-op he'll have to use 3 different eye drops 3 times/day, but they too aren't a biggie - two being an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory and I think the other was a lubricant/moisturizer. He'll also have to wear an eye shield when he sleeps for a few days to prevent it getting a thumb etc.

That night I was online without glasses for the first time in years, and the view was sharp and Kodachrome.

[Fat Tone]

TVM Doc Duly passed on.

And glad to hear your mother's op went well Chuck