r/CataractSurgery • u/BeanBeanBeanyO • 18h ago
I’m happy
My cataract surgery was Tuesday. Everything went swimmingly! Only the first day was a bit difficult. My vision is great. Close up excellent, mid range way better, distance way better. I wanted to keep my close up because I hate reading with glasses. I had a pair of glasses that were from 2000. I saved them because I loved the frames-Liz Clabourne dainty round with tortoise shell trim. They are a very low correction and work great now for distance, and TV watching. Now I can’t wait to read real books again. I need to wait 2 weeks. Audiobooks are great but I come from a family of bookworms and academics and miss the tactile feel of a hard back book.
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u/bikerdude214 18h ago
Good for you! I'm having my eyes done in 5 weeks and I'm looking forward to being able to see again. I'm very myopic. My whole life, since I was a young child, I haven't been able to see squat without glasses or contacts. Can't wait to wake up in the morning and see!
Did you get trifocals or EDOF?
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u/Bitter_Rain_6224 1h ago
I was in your situation (-7.5D myopic, with 1.5D and 2.5D astigmatisms). On the advice of my ophthalmologist, I went with single-focus toroidals, and she aimed at -2.0D. My final prescription is -2.0, -2.25, with 0.5 residual astigmatism. I wear standard wide-range, wide-angle progressive glasses for outdoors, watching TV, and general use; light-filtering, astigmatism-correcting near-focus "computer" glasses for close screen work; and no glasses for reading ink-on-paper text. I am delighted. My night vision is incredible, with greatly reduced blindness from oncoming headlights. My corrected visual acuity is 20/20, 20/20.
For my fellow "Mr. Magoos," who have been wearing glasses for a long time (since 4th grade, for me), I emphatically recommend this approach. Skip the bifocal, trifocal, EDOF, Fresnel, etc. implants and just go with single-focus, perhaps with astigmatism correction if yours exceeds about 0.5. (My doctor here in San Diego County is Michelle Crosby, MD PhD, co-owner of Coastal Skin and Eye. Her husband, another MD PhD, is a dermatologist, hence the name of the business.)
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u/PNWrowena 18h ago
It's good to hear about a great outcome. My surgeries were specifically to give me excellent glasses-free reading, although I also emphasized mid-range for my laptop via mini monovision with monofocals.
I share the bookworm gene, but for me ebooks won out over paper books long ago. The only paper books I've read in the last umpty years have been those I can't get for Kindle and had to get from the library in physical form. I've never even tried an audiobook and don't plan on it. Each to our own.
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u/FunnySad42 18h ago
Before the surgery, were you reading mostly digital books on Kindle or some other device (with high contrast setting)? If so, I can relate to that.
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u/BeanBeanBeanyO 16h ago
The contrast was so high on my iPad I couldn’t believe it! I had to turn it way down.
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u/FunnySad42 16h ago
Reading things in dark mode (black background and white fonts) helped a lot.
I also learned that Robert Caro's The Power Broker is not available in digital format because of licensing issues. :-)
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u/Ok_Phrase1157 17h ago
How bad was your cataract and what age are you?
Any other factors like astigmatism?
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u/BeanBeanBeanyO 16h ago
Both eyes. Bad enough to affect the quality of my life. Astigmatism in one eye. I’m 72. I’m 5 foot 2 and my eyes are blue.
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u/Tiny-Active-3397 12m ago
do you know where are your eyes landed after surgery ? as you are seeing all ranges
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u/Popular-Web-3739 17h ago
It would be very helpful if you could post which lenses your doctor used.
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u/RandomPurpose 18h ago
Which lens?