I go in next Friday for my left eye cataract surgery. I
cannot wait my vision uncorrected in 20/200 legally blind
and maybe 20/100 corrected. I can wait because riding
outside it a challenge. I can drive ok my right eye is 20/30
but hard to judge distances and depth. On a bike that is
critical. I then go in 2 weeks later for the right eye it is
not nearly as bad but it did not have the detached retina.
The retina surgery speeds up the cataract formation
exponentially. The retina has healed and done well.
They seem to want to push the more costly laser assisted
surgery but fact is traditional cataract surgery has the
same outcome long term and only small out of pocket as cover
by my health insurance mostly. The only real benefit to
laser is possibly quicker recovery but that is not much.
I do challenge the lens implant formula because I had LASIK
24 years ago and high myopia. They have a formula for folks
like me but a bit more of a fudge factor. I am going for
full distance vision and will require reading glasses. My
right eye they are going to slightly under correct just to
possibly make up close not as challenging. The detach retina
eye present a bit more but hopefully not any trouble. The
doctors are clear they make no provisions and tell you that
you will need glass full time no matter what. They cover
there asses completely.
WOuld be curious what other here have done if they have had
cataracts.
I go in next Friday for my left eye cataract surgery. I cannot wait my
vision uncorrected in 20/200 legally blind and maybe 20/100 corrected. I
can wait because riding outside it a challenge. I can drive ok my right
eye is 20/30 but hard to judge distances and depth. On a bike that is >critical. I then go in 2 weeks later for the right eye it is not nearly
as bad but it did not have the detached retina. The retina surgery
speeds up the cataract formation exponentially. The retina has healed
and done well.
They seem to want to push the more costly laser assisted surgery but
fact is traditional cataract surgery has the same outcome long term and
only small out of pocket as cover by my health insurance mostly. The
only real benefit to laser is possibly quicker recovery but that is not
much.
I do challenge the lens implant formula because I had LASIK 24 years ago
and high myopia. They have a formula for folks like me but a bit more of
a fudge factor. I am going for full distance vision and will require
reading glasses. My right eye they are going to slightly under correct
just to possibly make up close not as challenging. The detach retina eye >present a bit more but hopefully not any trouble. The doctors are clear
they make no provisions and tell you that you will need glass full time
no matter what. They cover there asses completely.
WOuld be curious what other here have done if they have had cataracts.
I go in next Friday for my left eye cataract surgery. I cannot wait my
vision uncorrected in 20/200 legally blind and maybe 20/100 corrected. I
can wait because riding outside it a challenge. I can drive ok my right
eye is 20/30 but hard to judge distances and depth. On a bike that is critical. I then go in 2 weeks later for the right eye it is not nearly
as bad but it did not have the detached retina. The retina surgery
speeds up the cataract formation exponentially. The retina has healed
and done well.
They seem to want to push the more costly laser assisted surgery but
fact is traditional cataract surgery has the same outcome long term and
only small out of pocket as cover by my health insurance mostly. The
only real benefit to laser is possibly quicker recovery but that is not
much.
I do challenge the lens implant formula because I had LASIK 24 years ago
and high myopia. They have a formula for folks like me but a bit more of
a fudge factor. I am going for full distance vision and will require
reading glasses. My right eye they are going to slightly under correct
just to possibly make up close not as challenging. The detach retina eye present a bit more but hopefully not any trouble. The doctors are clear
they make no provisions and tell you that you will need glass full time
no matter what. They cover there asses completely.
WOuld be curious what other here have done if they have had cataracts.
WOuld be curious what other here have done if they have had cataracts.
jeffl@cruzio.com
On 2/20/2025 4:08 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
jeffl@cruzio.com
Jeff,
Thanks for the information. I am inclined almost to call your situation
seems very different than most I have talked to.
Mt first question is how old are you?
THE copay is $300 for me but any laser option would be
$3900 for both eyes. No real better guarantee. Medicare will not pay for >laser but I don't have medicare.
How is your uncorrected distance vision?
Could you pass a driver test without needing any glasses?
My history is I am highly myopic -12 and
-13 in each eye. That put me in the top 1 percent of all nearsighted
people. I had LASIK 24 years ago and correct me to no need for glasses
for anything for 18 years> I was about 20.25 but regressed a bit in my
right eye now to 20/30. I have a macular pucker in that eye but not a
real issue but cannot get 20/20 with it.
SInce the lasik it throws the normal math calculations off on lens
power. They have to use a different formula so more room for errors.
Seems like yours took a long time to get better.
On 2/20/2025 4:08 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
   jeffl@cruzio.com
Jeff,
Thanks for the information. I am inclined almost to call your situation
seems very different than most I have talked to. Mt first question is
how old are you? THE copay is $300 for me but any laser option would be
$3900 for both eyes. No real better guarantee. Medicare will not pay for laser but I don't have medicare.
How is your uncorrected distance vision? Could you pass a driver test
without needing any glasses? My history is I am highly myopic -12 and
-13 in each eye. That put me in the top 1 percent of all nearsighted
people.
Am 21.02.2025 um 00:48 schrieb Mark J cleary:
On 2/20/2025 4:08 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
jeffl@cruzio.com
Jeff,
Thanks for the information. I am inclined almost to call your situation
seems very different than most I have talked to. Mt first question is
how old are you? THE copay is $300 for me but any laser option would be
$3900 for both eyes. No real better guarantee. Medicare will not pay for
laser but I don't have medicare.
How is your uncorrected distance vision? Could you pass a driver test
without needing any glasses? My history is I am highly myopic -12 and
-13 in each eye. That put me in the top 1 percent of all nearsighted
people.
Similar to my wife. She had on the order of -10 on the right eye and
-15 on the left eye; as LASIK in the past claimed not to be able to
repair -15, she did not bother with it and relied on contact lenses.
This also greatly increased the probability of a retina detachment,
which she had around the age of 45. The SF6 treatment of the detached
retina had the known side effect of "needing a cataract surgery with 30% >probability", so she had cartatact treatments (on both eyes) before the
age of 50. Continuing the old eye imbalance, she chose to have the
right eye set to -0.5 and the left eye for more near vision. She then
needed glasses (right eye blank) for the car and (left eye blank) for
intense reading but not for everyday use, including bicycling (one eye
good enough for far vision) and shopping (one eye good enough to read
the detalis on the package).
However, a few years later she got "cloudy vison" on the distance eye,
which means she now needs to use the distance glasses a lot more than >expected originally.
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