Laser surgery cataracts
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AFTER CATERACT SURGERY A MONTHE AGO [BOTH EYES] I DEVELOPED "SECONDARY CATARACTS" BEHIND THE NEW IMPLANTS. DO THEY DISSOLVE IN TIME OR MUST I GET THE LASER SURGERY [YAG]?
cataracts are like teenagers. You never know what they are going to do. Generally cataracts at your age grow faster than normal. No way to predict when they could be bad enough to consider surgery.
After my husband had his cataract surgery, he developed glaucoma. He now needs laser surgery to correct this, since the meds aren't improving his condition. Is glaucoma a common side effect of cataract surgery?
The U-shaped tear is also called a Horshoe Tear. If retina doc is recommending laser (aka "barrier laser" to form a barrier of laser around the tear), then I'd do it. Sure, there are risks. Nothing is risk free, but the risk of not treating is much much higher than the risk of doing the procedure.
Sincerely,
Timothy D. McGarity, M.D.
There is one private clinic that does femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery using the LenSX femtosecond laser. The other one does not, but it is much more convenient. When I asked my RS about the femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery, he basically said that it is the skill of the surgeon that counts in either way of doing cataract surgery. He admitted that it probably is the wave of the future.
I know there is some evidence to suggest that vitrectomies can accelerate the growth of cataracts. I experienced this in my right eye. My question is can the laser used to repair retinal tears cause cataracts as well? I had a retinal tear repaired by laser last October and another one repaired last January in my left eye. This was done in the doctor's office without the vitrectomy and now I have a cataract on that eye impairing my vision.
I lost the sight during retinal detachment surgery following cataract surgery. My optic nerve did not survive the surgery because of advanced glaucoma. A fact casually omitted to me prior to my cataract and retinal detachment surgery .
I would weigh all the factors and educate myself to ask all appropriate questions. It's your eyes...your responsibility.
Have you heard of anyone who has success with laser, is laser risky.
I recently went to see about Eye Laser and was told for me to have this done would be a waste of time. The optician suggested i should have new lenses put in my eyes (MPlus) My husband says this is very dangerous and looking at the videos on u tube certainly makes me feel worse. I am fed up wearing glasses and contact lenses and have been wearing contact lenses for too many years now.
Why did my cataracts become 'swollen'..thus making my glaucoma closed angle ?
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I have cataracts, but so far have been able to live with them, hoping a new non surgical treatment will come available. Last year I read about using femtosecond laser cataract bleaching. Supposedly they were able to successfully remove the protein.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009711
Has anyone heard about any updates on the progress of this or other non surgical treatments.
All the retina specialist told me is that he will laser about 8 lattice degeneration places first and then do the vitrectomy, followed by cataract surgery. He said 3 surgeries.
I've had one retina tear, and one lattice degeneration spot had a hole. The laser surgery for the hole wasn't too bad, but the tear was bigger and the surgery took longer. The burning was almost more than I could stand, plus having that blinding light in my eye and looking at the top left corner for so long.
Hello Sophia. No the age "not to wait" is not a chronological age. Many, perhaps most people die with their cataracts unoperated. There is a "stage" at which cataracts should not be left generally" If the cataract is getting to hard or too ripe so that waiting increases the risk of surgery. OR if the person has a retina problem and the ophthalmologist can't see through the cataract or can't do laser through it if needed.
Hi...I had read posts of yours a bit back about discussion re eye surgery and cataracts with myopic degeneration. I didn't find the old threads...but you seem so very well personally informed. I am -20 in both eyes...with advancing cataracts and really had had no one discuss the degeneration aspect of myopia until the last 3 years when the cataracts have been developing. I did understand that I had a high risk of retinal detachment.
It came from having cataract surgery. It said I will have a laser surgery to correct it. He was brief and only said it was simple. That's also what I was told about my cataract surgery. I understand they are easy operations, but I would like more of an explanation of what will exactly be done. Is there pain? Will I be medicated? Will I wear and eye patch? During my cataract surgery I did feel some slight pinching and my eyes were a little sensitive the next few days.
Cataract surgery should be possible no matter how advanced the cataract is, since the cataract is contained within a natural lens, the issue is merely the difficulty and an increased risk of complications. Almost all patients still get a good result, and since the alternative is going blind, most people consider it worth it.
Cataract surgery is taking out the natural lens and replacing it with an artificial lens, which is possible no matter how advanced the cataract.
While it is true that I pass all the distance vision tests and get rave reviews from all the staff, everything is cloudy, like I have cataracts, which, ironically, I never experienced before the cataracts surgery! I am told that a simple little zap of the laser will take care of it, and that is in the works, but I have since read that other people have had this problem and that is the fault of the lens.
I have cataracts in both eyes. I am going to have surgery in two weeks on the right eye first. Then 4 weeks afterward the left eye.
I am a 55 year old female.
Right eye has 1.0 astigmatism,
Left eye has .50 astigmatism.
20/20 early in life (actually better than 20/20)
Started wearing glasses around 45 years old.
I am told my eyes are in good condition other than cataracts.
Eye allergies - creates discharge all year, so never wore contacts.
I am only 53 years old. I developed cataracts due to lumbar and cervical steroid injections and had cataract surgery. I am being tested for Macular Degeneration. There is a spot in my left eye that wasn't there last July 2008. The Cataracts developed quickly and after surgery the spot in the center of my vision is now there. I had to have a 3 level cervical l fusion 5 days after my eye exam in July and I did not have cataracts or a spot in my eyes.
I was referred to a surgeon to have the cataracts removed but because I had previously had prk laser surgery approximately 20 years ago, he did not feel confident that he could help me so I was referred to another surgeon with more “experience” dealing with patients in my type of situation. After meeting with this 2nd surgeon, I was given a number of choices concerning the type of replacement lenses I could have implanted – monofocal, bi-focal, or multi-focal.
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