Laser surgery before and after
Common Questions and Answers about Laser surgery before and after
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One week after laser surgery I started having arc or circle shaped flashes in treated eye. These were not present before surgery. It then increased in frequency for next 2-3 days and now the frequency started decreasing. Can someone explain this phenomenon? and how these flashes developed after surgery?
I would wait a minimum of 3 months after the cataract surgery- then it's fair game for a yag laser IF you have significant posterior capsule opacification that is decreasing your vision. It only takes about 2 -3 months for the lens to seat fairly well in the capsule. I suspect your capsule may not be that cloudy and that it why yag laser is not being considered now.
1) How is your vision now?
2) Does your eye feel the same as before the surgery or it doesnt feel the same way anymore?
3) wondering how your life is now? is your life the same as before? will our life ever be the same again?
4) are you in constant fear that it will happen again? how do you deal with it---the fear?
5) besides family and friends, how do you cope and did you join a support group? do you thing this could work?
If your laser surgery repaired the retinal tear, then you are lucky. I had laser surgery to repair my retinal tear, and it didn't work, so I had to have a buckle and vitrechtomy surgery which is much more complicated and difficult to recover from than laser. If I were you I wouldn't be so quick to exercise and I would wait at least six months before I exercised with Doctor's permission.
On day 1 after my April 7 right eye cataract surgery and continuing unchanged to date, I have had blurred vision. The blur does not meet the "usual" definition. For lack of a better word, the blurriness is crescent shaped going from the bottom through the center to the top of my field of vision. The vision is not blank, but blurred, so that I can no longer make out images/letters.
Retina detachment, macular degeneation, optic issues all seem to have been ruled out.
I understand your frustration and often this situation can be eased by proper counseling BEFORE cataract surgery. Cataract surgery is definitely not guaranteed to make you free of glasses for distance. That is what you wanted but it doesn't always turn out that way due to the slight margins of error in many of the measurements and the margin of error in the mathematical calculations.
If I could add a comment to the fine doctor's, I too had floater problem after "routine" cataract surgery that was disregarded and did not seek another opinion til it was too late. If the second opinion is a retinal specialist, it would be most beneficial. I would go asap.
Prior to laser coagulation there were no symptoms, but 2 days after that flashes started. They went down in frequency and cataract surgery was done after 5 weeks. Flashes started again after 3 days and went down but come occasionally even after 11 months. Cataract surgery successful with vision 6/6 (and a few letters in 6/5) Now I am advised to have laser coagulation for the other eye which is due for cataract surgery. There are no symptoms other than cataract in the eye due for surgery.
I suspect you may be talking about posterior capsule opacification (PCO) which occurs naturally after cataract surgery. It is treated with an Yag Laser and has about a 99.5% success rate and extremely low rate of complications. Usually the doctor will wait until the vision is blurred significantly before performing the Yag Laser Capsulotomy. Perhaps your vision is not affected enough at present to warrent the laser procedure. Ask your doctor if you have PCO.
t go to medical school and properly in most jurisdictions are not allowed to do surgery or laser. People ride in cars immediately before and after laser.
At that time my cataract surgery will be around 90 days old. Is it unusual to have that type of lasik so soon after the cataract sugery and will this improve my vision? My vision is much clearer in my right eye with my contact lens. I know you can't make a clear judgment without examining my eye, but is my surgeron looking for some reason my vision isn't are sharp as expected? She said my vision still might improve even after all that time. Thanks for you reply.
The next day after right eye cateract surgery, I could read without reading glasses.
How soon will distance vision improve? The replacement lens is supposed to be close to my left eye distance seeing.
The replacement lens is Alcon Acrysof IQ model: SN60WF power: 22.0 D UV, is this lens for distance vision?
A few weeks after IOL implantation, I began to see light flares around point light sources, first at night, now during the day. From my reading here and elsewhere I understand that these may be a form of dysphotopsia, which is usually related to issues with the IOL itself. However, my physician says that I have developed capsular folds, which can also cause streaks/flares. My question is "Is there a way to determine which of these mechanisms is at fault?
i was told that after a month or 2 after the surgery the will be a cloudness in my eyes and that cab be resolved by a yag laser. after the surgery i discoverd that there whre halos around the lights s(something like feathers around the lights) i went to the doctor he performed a Yag laser. after the yag laser the halos became more visible they are like stars around the streetlight and car lights.
Thanks for the reply. I mean retinal tears and holes.Can contacts be worn after laser surgery? What's the recovery period?
My name is Andres, im 23 years old. I have keratoconous. And had a cataract removed on my left eye only due to an injury(traumatic cataract). I also have some type of traumatic mydriasis left after the injury. My doctor decided not to perform both the cataract and pupil repair at the same time. Saying it is more risky when they are done simultaneously. Unfortunately, my left eye feels a little off balanced. since the difference between two eyes is about 3.25 diopeters.
The first lens may be over-powered for your left eye, and so you are now myopic (near-sighted). Before any YAG laser capsulotomy is done, you need to discuss the possible need for explantation of the first lens and replacing it with another implant. This is always safer and easier if it is done before the capsule is opened with the YAG laser.
to proceed. Then after surgery I have the retina Eye MD check them 7-10 days after the laser and report immediately any dramatic increase of floaters, flashes of light or loss or peripheral vision.
My clinical experience does not indicate that the risk of RD is much higher with yag capsulology than original cataract/IOL surgery.
Hope this helped you.
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