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[deborahjross]

I have cataracts. I will soon not have cataracts. What do you think, folks, should I blog about my adventure?

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I'll add that I had one eye done a year and a half ago. If you have any questions, ask . . .

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you could get only one eye done, but since part of the point of the exercise is to free me from eyeglasses for most if not all activities, and I'm really, really near-sighted, it's rather a given.

What has your experience been? Are you pleased with the result?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I have mild age-related anterior cataracts in both eyes, but my left eye, the traitor, developed a fast-developing posterior version that needed action if I was going to see anything out that eye . . .

The surgery is a blank, since they used one of those mind-wipe drugs. Eye-patch for a day, until industrial-strength dilation wore off, then a protective cage for sleeping for a week, eye-drops for a month.

Result? I had a choice of corrective lenses and took the doc's suggestion -- went with one that matched my other eye, so still need glasses. The main effect is I have different color balance in my two eyes now, with whiter whites and brighter colors in the left. Took a bit of getting used to.

People who have both eyes done have an offset schedule - do one, wait a few weeks until you can use that, then do the other. So you can look forward to a longer siege.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's pretty much what the orientation materials said. They gave me this elaborate schedule for different drops before and after.

There are a whole bunch of choices, not only different lenses (monofocal, accommodative, multifocal, toric) but scalpel vs laser. With the laser, they can correct mild astigmatism. I had thought I could have only the (monofocal) toric but with the laser procedure, the other lens types are possibilities.

I'll likely have this done in August, after my older daughter moves back in.