Vigamox cataract surgery
Common Questions and Answers about Vigamox cataract surgery
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Often after I rise in the morning my eyes burn and water. Wiping them with a tissue does a good job of relieving the discomfort, and I'm generally good for the rest of the day.
My concern is that I'm going to have cataract surgery this coming Wednesday, and I know that rubbing the eyes afterward is a bad idea. I'm hoping for suggestions as to how best to relieve the discomfort and not compromise the incisions by rubbing my eyes.
I am in the middle of having cataract surgery (one eye is done and the other will be done tomorrow). The doctor gave me small samples of Nevanac & Vigamox to use before and after the surgeries. He also gave me a prescription for both. In checking with my health insurance plan, I see that each prescription will cost me $75 to fill. I saw in a previous question that Tobramycin might be substituted for Vigamox (which is MUCH cheaper). Can you suggest a cheaper substitute for Nevanac?
Yarrow,
I wanted you to know that I had cataract surgery on my left eye on Jan. 11. And I used the Vigamox drops pre and post-op as directed.
Three days after surgery, I woke up with a problem with my left shoulder. I'm not sure it was tendinitis, and maybe it was a coincidence that I had it. But I can tell you that it took about a month for it to finally get better! I stopped the Vigamox drops around Jan. 26.
Just posting this as an FYI.
Now I am scheduled for cataract surgery, and in the presurgical packet I received this weekend, there is an rx for Vigamox, even though I requested that a note about the Cipro/Vigamox problem be placed in my file.
I know the fluoroquinolones are appealing to docs because they are so tremendously effective, but for people who cannot tolerate them, are there acceptable substitutes?
I had cataract surgery on my left eye 4 days ago, using phacoemulsification and a toric IOL. I noticed today that my pupil is now off-center. If you use a compass diagram, the pupil sort of goes to the NNE area of the iris. I've also noticed that my vision actually seems a bit blurrier than it was 2 days ago. I am using Vigamox and Nevanac drops every 4 hours. Note that I had high myopia in that eye, with a diopter of -8.0.
I went to see my optometrist she prescribed an antibiotic VIGAMOX. I put since last saturday 4 drop a day. I went to see her last Monday. No improvement for the dot but my eyes fell better than saturday. I went back yesterday, no improvement so she send me to the eye doctor specialist. She told me to take Vigamox every 2h instead of 4. When I read the trial on Vigamox the patient took the drug 3x a day and see efficacy after 4-5days. For me it had been 5 now 6 days.
Since I was nearsighted and able to read without glasses with my right eye my doctor decided to put in a mono focal lense set for distance. Another reason for for the mono focal is they were only going to be doing cataract surgery on one eye as my left eye is fine and also multi focal iol tend not to do well with uveitis.
I am currently on methotrexate 7.
So the medications provide added protection against the most common cause of blindness after cataract surgery (endophthalmitis) and the most common cause of slow recovery (cystoid macular edema). Physicians have also been successfully sued for not using these when they use generics. You can almost hear the trial lawyer, "Doctor you mean you could have prevented my client from going blind if you didn't use "cheap" eyedrops?
I had cataract surgery and Crystalens implantation on the second (left) eye on January 5th. The lens was to give me distance vision. After approximately 2 1/2 weeks, sight in that eye deteriorated to 20/70. My doctor explained that the lens had flexed forward but would not move back, possibly due to some fluid leakage. He performed another surgery to reposition the lens and add fluid on January 26th.
You seem knowledgeable about Cataract surgery post ERM surgery. I had ERM surgery 10 months ago and Cat surgery last week. My vision in that ERM eye has now improved, but I still have remaining blank spot near my central vision. My OCT showed my retina thickness before Cat. surgery to be 308 in Fovea but 375 with the average central thickness--which is not back to normal..but had stabilized the past few months.
I am concerned about CME from the Cat.
In fact, he recommend we proceed with the next surgery this coming week. He indicated to maintain after surgery drugs of vigamox, prednisolone 1%, flurbiprofen .03%.as prescribed, which I have.
My visual clarity in bright light is much better. However indoor and night site is almost worse than when the catract was present. Proceeding with the next surgery seems ill advised until this condition clears.
So I opted for cataract surgery again. Based on the successful surgery five years before, I opted for a Restor implant (Model SN6AD1, power 14.5D).
It is now two weeks later, and the results unfortunately, are very different. My main complaint is that there is a "cloud" that moves around my left eye's vision, and at times hazes my left eye's vision significantly. (It's almost as if the cloud is a large "floater").
I had cataract surgery on my left eye in January. I had had the same surgery on my right eye about 7 years ago, and that procedure was and continues to be fine. The second surgery has left me with blurred vision.
I can see a black cresent shaped image which looks very much like the shape of the incision made to remove my cataract. Please advice.
Finally, a funny thing happened after my recent cataract surgery. Before my surgery I had to use Nevanac (antinflammatory) and Vigamox (antibiotic) eye drops 4 times a day and continued them along with Omnipred (steroid) after the surgery. I am now noticing that my dry eye has improved dramatically.....from severe to fairly mild. Also I stopped using the ointment in the eye for fear of infection at the incision.
visual maturity--usually about age 10-11) So there will be glasses, patching, likely contact lens, exams under anesthesia, possibly more cornea surgery, possibly cataract surgery. It takes a very special type of ophthalmologists to manage this. Her most important eye is the uninjured and you will need to be sure that is healthy at some point soon and she will need to be protected from injury or disease to the "good eye".
I just had eye surgery. Doctor prescribed 3 different eye drop medicines for a week. Can anyone tell me what each are for? A friend told me some were dangerous to my eye? Is this true?
The only reason not to have both problems dealt with now is if your retina doctor thought you would get good vision recovery from the pucker surgery and not need cataract surgery for several more years.
However it works out, your two surgeons MUST talk to each other in advance of any procedure so that everyone is on the same page.
hy, 2 weeks ago i had cxl treatment for keratoconus. my doctor prescribed me to use vigamox and tobradax 4 times a day for 5 days and after flu she prescribed me to take these drops for 1 week.
I had cataract surgery on left eye due to a traumatic cataract. I am very myopic. The cataract surgeon suggested prior surgery to go plano in the left eye in order to correct myopia. I was more leaning in leaving the eye somewhat myopic, because the other eye has only a very small cataract and I didn't know when the cataract surgery on that eye would happen.
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