![]() However, I walked around without any correction on the right eye for 3 weeks, so didn't drive or do much at night. The left eye was done first and seemed great. I upgraded to the premium Alcon Acrysof IQ toric lens. I am severely myopic and have astigmatism. Hello, I had cataract surgery done on both my eyes in June 3 weeks apart. I continue to research surgeons in Pittsburgh area who know how to avoid the dysphotopsia problems of my first IOL implant. As said previously, I put off surgery for RIGHT eye cataract this fall because of fear it will end up the same as my left. – I explored the prospect of an lens exchange, but local doctors are strongly against it saying risks of a worse outcome are not worth it.ĪLL of the above are related to my LEFT eye, the one on which I had cataract surgery in late 2019. I’m, also, trying yellow glasses to try to calm the glare/halos/streaks at night driving with limited success. – Since, I have a very slight astigmatism, my optometrist gave me the very lowest power toric and it helps me a little to see street/highway signs. I, actually, had worse halos/light glare and acuity was also worse – I tried the photochromic contact lens in my eye in attempt to decrease the severe streaks and halos. With that, I’ll update what I’ve found out and done lately: I’m thinking that this percentage is low as some post operative patients say, “well, my vision is fine except I can’t drive at night anymore because of the lights.” Also, when my surgeon tells me “dysphotopsias are very rare”, this gives me no solace since I am “1 for 1” (I had one eye done and got dysphotopsia 100 percent of the time). That’s, certainly, good for the many people who have had cataract surgery, In reading online, seems that the data shows long term positive dysphotopsia occurs in about only 1.5% or so of patients. ![]() Ok, I guess the lack of entries on post cataract dysphotopsias might show that they are, in fact, rare. Have you looked into getting photochromic contacts or glasses? BLOG: Educate patients on transient nature of dysphotopsias: Dealing with positive and negative dysphotopsias: Here are a couple of articles you may find helpful on the topic. The surgeon did give me an RX for glasses to fix the reading and suggested I could have them as bifocals or progressive lenses so I recently had a pair made and wear them most of the time and they seem to make a difference with the night time glare that I still noticed a little, although not as bad as prior to my cataract surgery. I was bugged because I always had to have 1.25 reading glasses with me to read labels at the store. Regular sunglasses help me during the day. I had the standard IOLs used and I did notice some glare on bright days and sometimes at night. I had cataract surgery done to both of my eyes last year and was really happy with the results because I no longer had to wear glasses for driving.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |