cataracts
Who here has had cataract surgery?
Sunday, October 26, 2025 by Chasbo | Discussion: Life, the Universe and Everything
So I'm getting cataract surgery. Right eye tomorrow and left eye next week. I'd love to hear if any of you have had this surgery and what it was like to go through. Did your vision improve? I also have macular degeneration. Wet in my left eye and dry in my right eye. Hell, I'm 73 and I guess it's time to fall apart! 
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Reply #22 Wednesday, November 5, 2025 8:05 AM
Best of good fortune with the coming surgery, Chuck. 
Reply #23 Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:33 PM
Chuck, I have glaucoma, you do also correct? My eye doctor did my cataracts specifically because it would create more room, and lower my eye pressure. They were also ready remove. This was in Jan./Feb. 2023 or 2024. My pressure has been staying where he said is good. I am off eye drops (which I have been using since 2006).
And I did have a huge difference in seeing stuff. Instead of what I would call a brownish something, everything was so bright. Colors were wow! I have often wondered about my artistic endeavors. Even digital they must have been affected. So like artists long ago, before cataracts were known, their slow loss of color/clarity must have affected their artwork. Just my opinion.
My experience, the blurriness goes away.
Reply #24 Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:49 PM
So like artists long ago, before cataracts were known, their slow loss of color/clarity must have affected their artwork.
Cataracts and cataracts surgery were known in 980 CE. Abu-Sina'a (Avicenna) taught it in his teaching hospital in Isphahan, Iran. However, the procedure was first recorded in a wall painting in Deir el-Medina, Egypt around 1280 BCE. 
Reply #25 Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:58 PM
That is kool!! Thank you Doc I didn't know!
Reply #26 Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:02 AM
I never heard the doctor say I have glaucoma. He said that as a result of surgery sometimes the pressure builds up. The vision being blurry in my surgical eye is getting better. In fact last night it was almost gone! This morning it isn't so good but it's still better than it was. I have to continue with eye drops for a while.
Reply #27 Thursday, November 6, 2025 9:50 AM
I never heard the doctor say I have glaucoma. He said that as a result of surgery sometimes the pressure builds up. The vision being blurry in my surgical eye is getting better. In fact last night it was almost gone! This morning it isn't so good but it's still better than it was. I have to continue with eye drops for a while.
Sorry Chuck, it must have been someone else here, that said they also had Glaucoma. Glad to here your vision is improving!
Reply #28 Friday, November 7, 2025 8:22 AM
The eye, right eye, vision is still blurry. It seems to slowly be getting better. I don't want them to do the left eye until the right eye gets better. I see them this coming Tuesday.
Reply #29 Friday, November 7, 2025 9:21 AM
The eye, right eye, vision is still blurry. It seems to slowly be getting better. I don't want them to do the left eye until the right eye gets better. I see them this coming Tuesday.
I understand the blurriness can take up to four weeks to clear...for the eye to get used to the new lens.
Reply #30 Friday, November 14, 2025 6:45 PM
Cataracts and cataracts surgery were known in 980 CE. Abu-Sina'a (Avicenna) taught it in his teaching hospital in Isphahan, Iran. However, the procedure was first recorded in a wall painting in Deir el-Medina, Egypt around 1280 BCE.
Those wacky ancients just knocked the opacified lens out of the way, into the vitreous chamber, with less than ideal results, mostly blindness, so nothing lost nothing gained.
Reply #31 Friday, November 14, 2025 11:05 PM
Those wacky ancients just knocked the opacified lens out of the way, into the vitreous chamber, with less than ideal results, mostly blindness, so nothing lost nothing gained.
"Couching" as it was called was a far less than ideal solution, indeed. I can't imagine suturing a cornea, nor replacing a lens without anesthetics, steroids nor antibiotics, anyhow.
Reply #32 Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:30 AM
My right eye is much better now. Scheduled to do the left eye this coming Monday.
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Reply #21 Wednesday, November 5, 2025 7:53 AM
I went for a follow up visit with the eye doctor yesterday. The pressure in the eye that had surgery was too much he said so he had to drain the eye. I see color a lot better but everything is blurred in the surgery eye. He said that should gradually improve. I have to use special eye drops until further notice. I have to go next week for another check up on the eye. The week after next he is going to do the surgery on my left eye. I hope that by then my right eye isn't seeing everything blurry. That's all for now.