Posted by JML755 on June 03, 2016 at 17:53:08 from (69.14.82.70):
Almost 2 years ago, I had cataract surgery on both eyes. They put ocular implants in and my vision became 20-20. Before the surgery, I had terrible eyesight and needed glasses for distance. After the surgery, I needed reading glasses and to work on a computer. Not a huge drawback but found that I could no longer just pull my glasses off to read fine print or work on stuff that required close inspection. I got a magnifier headset and a bunch of different magnifying glasses to handle those situations and everything was fine.... until a few months ago. My vision started to get worse to the point I couldn't read road signs well. Right eye was the worst but left eye was also problematic. I kept going to the store, trying different strength reading glasses and nothing seemed to help. Typing on a computer was the worst. Everything was blurry as heck. Figured I had some kind of disease.
Went to the eye surgeon Tuesday afternoon. Could barely read the eye chart with ANY setting they used on the machine. He mentioned I might need laser surgery. What?! I thought. He took one look at my eyes and said "oh yeah, you need laser". J said, ok, when? He said "tomorrow (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm". I said "whoa, I need to check with my wife if she can get off work". He said "no need, it will only take a few minutes and you can drive right home. We'll do the left eye Thursday at 8:00 AM. I'd do both at the same time but insurance sometimes balks at that, so we do them on separate days." He walked out, saying "see you tomorrow".
Needless to say I was a little taken aback at how fast it all happened.
Went in Wednesday afternoon, spent about 15 minutes with the nurse, checking eye pressure and dilating my eye. Waited about 10 minutes for my eye to dilate and they called me into a room. Doctor told me to put my head on the chinrest of the laser machine, (it was nothing fancy to look at), started firing away with the laser for about 30 seconds and said "have a nice afternoon, you should like the results". I walked out and WOW, everything was clear as day, not blurry anymore. No discomfort whatsoever during the procedure. Yesterday morning, had the left eye done. Same result: restored my 20/20 vision. I looked on Youtube and found a video on the procedure: "yag laser capsulotomy". Watching it blew me away, how simple it looked. Just like playing a video game or shooting ducks at a carnival. Turns out a good number of people have this problem after cataract surgery and it's very simple to fix.
If anyone is worried about it after cataract surgery, don't be. I asked the doc if I would need this again and he said "nope". Hope he's right.
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