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Question about cateract surgery
« on: January 13, 2012, 05:50:54 PM »
I'm having a cateract removed from my right eye on the 31st. I feel really good about the doctor who is going to be doing it (he came highly recommended). He is going to use a mono focal lens set for distance as my left eye has no cateract and I see really well close up and pretty good at distance in that eye as well (it's my dominant eye).

This cateract, for those of you who don't already know, is from steroid drops I have had to put in that eye for UVeitis. Sometime after 860 drops people usually develop cateracts.  It is cumulative, you can put 100 drops in one year then none for several years and start the drops again, the 100 drops that you previously put in your eye still count towards the 860 that cause cateracts.  So your lens won't "heal" over time from steroid use.   I have also had several steroid shots in that eye which contribute as well. 

I have a very slight astigmatism. Not enough to put a toric lens in apparently so he wants to make a tiny slit in my cornea (I think) to fix the astigmatism. Has anyone had this procedure or cateract surgery?  I am really nervous about having this done. I know it is a very common procedure that has a very high success rate but I'm kind of freaking out about it.

Oh and another sucky thing, he talked to my other eye doctor who treats my UVeitis. They both decided I needed a shot of steroids in my eye to help prevent UVeitis after the surgery. I will most likely get a nice bloodshot eye from the shot (I get a bloodshot eye every time I have gotten one). 
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2012, 06:45:07 PM »
I've had the cataract surgery but not the correction for the astigmatism.  It wasn't much different from the previous operations (scleral buckle and stitches).
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2012, 08:01:35 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on January 13, 2012, 06:45:07 PM
I've had the cataract surgery but not the correction for the astigmatism.  It wasn't much different from the previous operations (scleral buckle and stitches).

Yikes, scleral buckle and stitches doesn't sound fun. My doctor said I will be able to drive the next day and shouldn't be in any pain.  I won't have any stitches.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2012, 10:21:48 AM »
My mother had the surgery. I think. I believe it involves lens replacement? Anyway, she now see perfectly but the eye that she had the surgery in now has an odd "sparkle" in it from the lens. It looks wierd. I think the only issue that she has is night time "flares" or "halos" around car lights, and most other lights.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2012, 01:32:05 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on January 16, 2012, 10:21:48 AM
My mother had the surgery. I think. I believe it involves lens replacement? Anyway, she now see perfectly but the eye that she had the surgery in now has an odd "sparkle" in it from the lens. It looks wierd. I think the only issue that she has is night time "flares" or "halos" around car lights, and most other lights.

I wonder if it's a multifocal lens?  Those lenses tend to have more trouble with halos. I already have halos from the cateract so I hope it's an improvement. Why did she only have one eye done?  Most people who get cateracts get them in both eyes. My case is out of the norm and is because of constant use of steroid eye drops.

Now I'm freaking out about having a little odd sparkle in my eye...  :panic:
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2012, 02:03:30 PM »
Quote from: BEG on January 16, 2012, 01:32:05 PM
I wonder if it's a multifocal lens?  Those lenses tend to have more trouble with halos. I already have halos from the cateract so I hope it's an improvement. Why did she only have one eye done?  Most people who get cateracts get them in both eyes. My case is out of the norm and is because of constant use of steroid eye drops.

Now I'm freaking out about having a little odd sparkle in my eye...  :panic:


LOL. you'll be fine.
She only had one eye with the problem, but the other might be acting up. I'd call her to find out, but I don't have an hour to listen to her talk.   :rofl:
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2012, 09:11:20 PM »
Ack...one week to go. I'm nervous. I also have a new freaky thing, a cyst on my eye BALL. It looks like a clear bubble in the lower right corner of my right eye. At first I thought it was a goober in my eye, then I thought it was on the rim of my lower lid but after looking closer I can see it is on my eye and it moves when I touch it with a q-tip.  :panic:
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2012, 09:14:14 PM »
They'll probably just chop it off with a laser. 

I had some sort of funky membrane grow on my eye after the third surgery.  They burned it off with a frickin' laser beam.

I don't remember what else I had done, but I had a separate procedure in the office where the doctor shined some hot laser on my eye.  It HURT.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2012, 09:15:53 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on January 23, 2012, 09:14:14 PM
They'll probably just chop it off with a laser. 

I had some sort of funky membrane grow on my eye after the third surgery.  They burned it off with a frickin' laser beam.

I don't remember what else I had done, but I had a separate procedure in the office where the doctor shined some hot laser on my eye.  It HURT.

Damn you, don't tell me it's going to hurt.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2012, 09:17:52 PM »
The one in the OR didn't hurt.  It was the procedure I had done in the office that hurt but I don't remember what it was for. 
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2012, 09:21:56 PM »
Quote from: BEG on January 23, 2012, 09:15:53 PM
Damn you, don't tell me it's going to hurt.

BEG,
Had surgey on both eyes. Other than alot of nervousnessI didn't have any pain at all. The worst was the pictures they took of the inside of the eye. Imagine a strobe light going off in a dialated eye. Several times.

But the surgery? none.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2012, 09:24:22 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on January 23, 2012, 09:17:52 PM
The one in the OR didn't hurt.  It was the procedure I had done in the office that hurt but I don't remember what it was for. 

Was it a Posterior Capsulotomy?  Sometimes after cataract surgery the bag that holds the lens can get cloudy.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2012, 09:25:15 PM »
Quote from: BEG on January 23, 2012, 09:15:53 PM
Damn you, don't tell me it's going to hurt.

Especially before you send him his light bulbs, right??? :)

You will be fine.    
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2012, 09:25:25 PM »
I don't remember.  Sorry.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2012, 09:27:46 PM »
Quote from: dutch508 on January 23, 2012, 09:21:56 PM
BEG,
Had surgey on both eyes. Other than alot of nervousnessI didn't have any pain at all. The worst was the pictures they took of the inside of the eye. Imagine a strobe light going off in a dialated eye. Several times.

But the surgery? none.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

I have had a lot of bright lights and strobe type lights flashed in my dilated eye when I have uveitis. So if that is as bad as it gets then I can take it.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2012, 09:30:18 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on January 23, 2012, 09:25:15 PM
Especially before you send him his light bulbs, right??? :)

You will be fine.    

Right, maybe I should hold his bulbs captive.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2012, 09:34:39 PM »
Quote from: BEG on January 23, 2012, 09:27:46 PM
I have had a lot of bright lights and strobe type lights flashed in my dilated eye when I have uveitis. So if that is as bad as it gets then I can take it.

I know you can.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2012, 09:41:11 PM »
You'll be fine.  It's mostly painless.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2012, 09:51:00 PM »
Quote from: BEG on January 23, 2012, 09:30:18 PM
Right, maybe I should hold his bulbs captive.

I would.  At least until after the surgery.   O-)

I know you will be fine.  You have been through MUCH worse.  For real.
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Re: Question about cateract surgery
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 09:18:57 AM »
I would think having a kid trumps just about everything other than having your fingernails slowly ripped out of your hands.

Something like that, anyway.  :-)
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