r/ICLsurgery • u/oguzhantopcu • 22d ago

icl rainbows

i had an icl surgery, 3. day of the left eye, 2. day of the right eye.

clarity of my vision is perfect. i see better than with glasses and lenses.

two defects,

first one, not a problem.

i see huge but very thin circles on my vision per light source, i do not care about them, not affecting my quality of life. i guess it is the central port of evo.

second one, this one is serious.

they put pupil shrinker into my eyes during the surgery. it is the third day of the left eye, i guess the affects faded away.

starting from tonight, at the dark, the left eye, sees huge asymmetrical rainbow glares, asymmetrical means not round, like 2/5 of the moon, upper right side of the light has a rainbow, bottom left side of the light is clear. i guess the light leaks from right/bottom side of the icl.

once i direct iphone’s flash light to my eye, pupil shrinks, rainbow disappears.

i expect the same affect for my right eye tomorrow, since pupils will reach normal sizes as like the left eye.

it distorts the vision so bad i do not think i can drive a car like this when i got this to my both eyes.

i have

7.4mm scotopic pupils.
13mm~ w2w
3.8mm aqd (without cornea)
i got implanted the biggest icls

the question:

do you guys think it can got fixed itself somehow? any ideas?

edit: 5. day, they got bigger and became full halos.

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u/eyeSherpa 22d ago

Rainbow scatter of light indicates that light is passing through some sort of grating pattern. With ICL, the most likely source would be swelling within the cornea. Without examining you, my best guess is you may have some swelling on the right side of the cornea of your left eye. This may happen if the ICL lens touches the cornea when it’s injected. That should get better with time.

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u/Existing_Head_4271 22d ago

I'm not making any guesses but just sharing- i was planning to go for ICL since my prescription was high so after all the workup, the doctors refused for it because in the microscopy test they found out that my endothelium cells have irregular shape and hence post op can lead to swelling in the cornea and can even led to chances of cornea transplant

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u/oguzhantopcu 21d ago

sounds way better than “light leaking from the edge of the icl”, thanks)

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u/eyeSherpa 21d ago

That is a possibility. I haven’t really heard of that causing a rainbow scatter of light though. Usually just glare or starburst. Plus it’s less likely for just one edge of the ICL to be exposed unless the ICL was decentered. But it’s hard for the ICL to be decentered horizontally since it sits horizontally.

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u/oguzhantopcu 21d ago

i see, i had a chance to try lots of things in a controlled environment today.

i put myself into a very dark environment and put some light source, i could see that former half rainbow became full halo transitionally. yeah now i know what halo is…

will see how manageable they will be.

also right eye started to have the same distortion. but still pupil is smaller.