My Dr also says six weeks, so it is a common thing I guess. At 3 weeks in, I skipped a night and a morning dose and my eye REALLY hurt until I could get at the drops so I plan to use them.
My other eye has been six weeks and I still put one or the other (are you still using 2) in it and it doesn’t have any problems. Can’t say that it WOULD have had problems, but better safe than sorry.
I moved my drops from the bathroom to the bedside and put one in before I get up. Laying down and looking at the drop took a little control, but got easier. Then I do the other after breakfast. At night I do one before I brush my teeth for bed and then do the other in bed. Made it easier to get the separation AND remember to do both. If I forget before bed, they are right where I set my watch so I remember that way.
I am still delighted with it over all. I don’t get glasses for another 2 weeks (which I think I need for driving, but managed to drive a long way without them, but felt strain)
Got both eyes done! No more glasses. The surgery went well except I reacted rather strongly to anesthesia. My anesthesiologist said I have very low tolerance for narcotics. I need reading glasses badly. I went shopping. Couldn’t read how much any item costs.
I’m getting mine done soon. I am extremely myopic with minimal astigmatism (that doesn’t need correction). I have a big problem right now with halos and glare at night. My doc recommended the Symfony lens as better for halos and glare than multifocal lenses and best for intermediate vision. Does anyone have experience with it?
Silly question - so all of you had cataracts, and that was the actual reason for this surgery? This is completely separate from a Lasik type procedure?
What is the average age for cataract surgery? I saw someone here saying they had it done in their 40s which sounded young to me.
I am very nearsighted, but contacts correct that very well. However I am now unable to read up close so I do need readers if I am wearing my contacts. Otherwise I have progressive glasses but sometimes it’s still easier to take them off and read. I don’t believe I have any cataracts developing however, so I suppose any surgery would be a ways off.
I just found out I have cataracts in both eyes, but the right is worse than the left. I’m 51. My mother, who is 80, just had the surgery earlier this year, so I was shocked to find out I needed it, too. It came out of left field.
@surfcity, LASIK and cataract surgeries are totally different procedures. LASIK reshapes the cornea to correct the way light is focused on the retina. It can correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism.
When you have cataracts, the problem is that your lens has become cloudy. The surgery removes the lens and replaces it with an artificial one.
@LVKris Thanks - I know they are separate procedures, I was just thrown off because so many folks on here seemed to have had cataract surgery, and in my mind I thought that was mostly done on people in their 70s or so. At least that is when my parents and their friends had it done.
I did not realize that so many people could develop cataracts at a younger age. I am in my 50s and I don’t think I know of anyone my age IRL who has had this surgery, but I am seeing many folks here having it done in that age range. It was just a bit of a disconnect for me
@twinsmama I had the intermediate lens put in and am very happy. I don’t have halos, I can mostly see all the time. Yes, it is better to drive with driving sunglasses or prescription glasses at night. Yes, I have to have Walgreen’s readers for books, but I can read on my iPad just fine w/o anything.
@surfcity I am 66, didn’t need the cataracts done immediately but they were there, but I had a different problem in the viscous fluid/retina drying that the Dr would not treat before the cataracts were gone. (called some sort of floater and was like looking through a partially fogged up shower curtain). I now have both eyes cataracts done and one eye JUST got the floaters out. I am SO HAPPY.
I knew the floaters were annoying, but thought I was seeing around them OK… not so much when they are gone. I have to wait two more weeks then will do the other eye. Surgery called vitrectomy if you want to google it.
My brother (younger) should have his cataracts done, we both lived outdoors most of our lives so the sun makes a difference I think. He is waiting because Medicare does pay for (most) of the cataract surgery AND a new pair of glasses after the surgery. So maybe that is why there is a flurry of that age people getting done.
A BIL just had the “floater removal” thing done after cataract surgery. Apparently they would only do it after the cataracts.
Boy, I wish I could do that! My floaters got significantly worse a few years ago after a hyphema episode, and they do bother me, especially when reading.
But fortunately or not, my incipient cataracts are supposed years away from being bad enough to remove.
I wonder if one can have the trifecta–cataract/new lenses, lasix, AND foater removal–and if so in what order.
Had my cataracts removed at age 61. Went from coke-bottle glasses to 20/20 vision without glasses! Driving at night had become extremely difficult, along with the inability to correct vision in one eye no better than 20/40.
Definitely life changing. Sure, I need to keep cheapo reading glasses on hand, but I can now wear wraparound sun glasses off the rack. One of the technicians in my doctor’s office advised me not to wait too long–quality of life issue. And I agree–so glad I did not wait, potentially giving up years of clear vision.
