Corrective eye laser surgery vision
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However, when I open my right eye, the vision is not as clear. Whenever I close my left eye, vision is cloudy and blurry. I'm also told by the surgeon that I have a small hole in my right eye cornea. He stated that he could close the hole with a stitch. If he corrects the cornea, will that eliminate the cloudy and blurred vision?
When can I expect my vision to stabilize? Has anyone had this procedure and been able to wear corrective lens or contacts for 20/20 vision afterward? What about LASIK or ICLs afterward? I have to have scleral buckle on my left eye later this year?
I was considering laser/corrective surgery prior to this diagnosis. After my cataract surgery would I only need corrective surgery in my left eye? Does one surgery effect the decision regarding the other?
The ophthalmologist office was a very business place and so he didn't have time to really walk me through everything. I really want to make an informs decision and information is greatly appreciated.
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 amount of scarring with a retinal laser in the periphery of the retina should not affect your vision, but if you developed a retinal detachment, you need surgery not just laser. If you are not happy with the retina surgeon in Las Vegas, come to LA; there are many excellent retina specialists here. I could recommend the David Boyer group in North Hollywood, Dr. Robert Engstrom in Encino, Dr. Sandy Lee in Van Nuys, and Dr. Tom Hanscom in Santa Monica.
I had a scleral buckle done on my right eye and several laser procedures on my left eye. My right eye is only good for peripheral vision. My central vision is extremely distorted. Thankfully, with corrective lenses I am able to see with my left eye.
If you aren't sure about your current eye doctor, you owe it to yourself to get another (2 or more) opinions. Once your vision is gone, you can't get it back.
I just got back from a visit with my eye doctor and she was unsure as to whether or not my eyes would benefit from either corrective surgery or contacts. She recommended either hard lenses or toric lenses, but said to talk with the doctor who specializes in contracts, who was not in today.
My question being, with my RX numbers listed below, what are my options? More specifically, i want to be rid of glasses.
I had cataract surgery with a corrective lens in right eye several months ago. Had to have the laser YAG because of blury vision. Outside vision during daylight improved greatly, tho not quite as good as I would like. Night vision while watching TV is not that well and long distance night time vision is even worse, especially driving. I was told that I had a wrinkle and that it could get better or worse.
I am seeing her next month. Currently my vision is - 10. In my only good eye which is right eye. My ophthalmologist advised me that I can get rid of Myopia by having implant the corrective lense. However I would need a pair of reading glasses to read smaller text.
My question is should i go ahead with the corrective lense? Or just get the regular lense and wear glasses? Considering that I just have one good eye and wore contacts and glasses all my life.
Then after the eye has healed and the vision and refractive error is know (generally about 4-6 weeks) have the good eye have surface laser (PRK) on the good eye usually aiming for zero (plano) if better distance vision without glasses is desired or -2.00 if better near vision without glasses is desired.
The blurry distant and intermediate vision of the right eye is not such a concern but the actively bad near vision is. I see ghosting of printed letters that makes it almost impossible to read even large print with the right eye. Reading glasses lessen the ghosting but it is still there. I don't know how I would cope if my left eye turned out the same. Reading is a very large part of my work as well as my personal life.
I was getting double vision. At first they just tried to correct with prisms in my Rx. I had surgery for the wrinkled retina during the first week of November. To date there has been no improvement in my vision except that the floaters were removed during surgery. I understood that the surgery might not solve the problem. I am scheduled for a follow up visit in one month. I have been told that vision is 20/30 in the eye that had surgery and 20/20 in the other.
About 11 weeks ago, that was repaired by vitrectomy, laser, scleral buckle, and my eye was filled with SF6 gas. After 7 weeks of face-down recovery, my bubble was small enough to go face-up. My retina was reportedly in excellent recovery. Unfortunately, a cataract had formed as a result of the bubble and procedures. I was amazed I had 20/30 vision through a pinhole with my old glasses on, so I feel that my chances for an excellent complete visual recovery are good.
I have not had the other eye done due to extensive problems with night vision - the worst enormus halos, starbursts, etc I have ever had in 55 years of wearing glasses, and all vision in the near range is totally blured making it impossible to read. My doctor strongly recommended this lens to me and tells me that the near vision will get better if I have the second eye done. I have not read anything to verify that and will not agree to a second implant until I get additional information.
I currently have an the old Array multifocal in my right eye which gives fair vision results but I wear a corrective lense for my astigmastism . I am burdened with the night driving star bursts and halos also.I don't want to lose my night driving capability since I am only 49.
Additionally both implants will have the out of pocket costs of $2000.
Any and all opinions are welcome with having to make a decision within the next week.
My surgeon, who--after due thought and diligence--gave me reStors (with which I could not be more pleased), told me after eye #2 that during surgery he had tried to scrape off the cells that had adhered to the posterior capsule, but he could not do the job to his satisfaction.
Sure enough, only a couple of months later, I had some noticeable opacity, and needed the Yag capsulotomy on that eye. It took a few seconds, and the result was instantly clear vision.
I had cataract surgery in one eye and one month later had the other eye done. My vision after the surgery was 20/20 in one eye and 20/25 in the other! No glasses. 2 weeks later one eye developed a detached retina and the other retina tears. Had to have a vitrectomy and gas bubble in one eye and laser in the other. Told by the cataract surgeon that I was one of the unlucky 1%, has this ever happened to any one else. Hard to believe this was a coincidence.
The surgeon talked me into getting mono-focal replacement lenses and both he and my optometrist decided that it would be best to try get my best distance vision and then get corrective glasses for near vision. My first cataract surgery was on my dominant eye (left) but because of the previous PRK surgery, the prescription of the replacement lens was just a guess.
The Crystalens in the right gives me reading in ample light and no night vision. I actually failed the driving eye test with that eye! I now have distance glasses to wear for night vision. I found that when in an auditorium, even with bright lights my distance glasses enhance the view becasue even in that environment the players on the court are blurry, I can watch the game okay, but the vision is't sharp.
It makes it very difficult to drive at night, and impossible to drive at night if raining. A week later I had the YAG surgery performed on my right eye. I hesitated having it done, but my doctor assured me that the starburst effect would decrease over time, which it has, but not significantly. Today I returned to the doctor (2 years later) to discuss this issue. I had read in other threads regarding this issue that the starburst were possibly caused by wrinkes in the lense, debrise, etc.
) An alternative would be to get laser vision correction (LASIK, PRK) to reduce the myopia in your second eye (and your insurance might cover the procedure). Wearing a contact lens in that eye works for some people. I would not recommend targeting -6 for your cataract eye, but it's certainly an option, too. Although a 3 diopter difference between your eyes might (or might not) be tolerable, you'd be passing up a golden opportunity to have good uncorrected vision.
ve recovered well except for double vision and some distortion in that eye. My regular eye doctor tells me that the double vision/distortion are due to the buckle hindering the eye muscles and changing the shape of the eyeball. The surgeon tells me I will need to get prism eyeglasses to help correct the problems, but that the buckle must stay in place in case of further retinal detachment.
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