It tells me they use eyepieces and optical lens systems that project onto a monitor all controlled with a PC and software. Is this a test?

 

Eye doctors have good eyesight?

But seriously, me either. And like I posted earlier they all told me not to get it done as I will certainly need reading glasses, but without it very likely I won't. I take my close up vision as WAY more important than my far away vision.

But I have only had communication with around 10 or so, so a pretty small sampling. I think every one had glasses as well.

lol

 

Laser Eye surgery is one of the many things I am going to do when I get older... including illicit drugs, anabolic steroids, and many other things that I am told you should not do because of the long term health problems. But hey, if you don' have much time, the long term health problems are not an issue right?

 

reviving an old thread on laser surgery. It has changed some I think.
I got a quote from LASIK (first canadian place) to do lens presbyvision which is like cataract surgery. they recommend about 50% of patients this procedure. they make a small incision (no laser) and remove old lens and insert new plastic one. this corrects reading glasses as well as others and leaves halo effect at night.
Anybody had this done?
they quoted me 7k. They were pretty sales gimmiky, cheesy btw.

 

Danny. Sent you a PM

 

I had lasik there back in 07 and a re-treatment in one eye in 2018. Trade off is I have to wear reading glasses now. But it looks like I have some scarring in my one eye from the re-treatment, so I’m seeing a specialist on the 18th.

 

Unless you need cataract surgery I wouldn't do it. 3-5% of cataract surgeries go bad. I know that's pretty good odds but if you're within that group it's no fun.... ask me how I know! I ended up in the hospital having eye surgery and now have a scared retina from an infection resulting from the surgery. It was about four weeks of misery and quite the scare. YMMV

 

Although cataract surgery is very successful 95% of the time, there can be complications, as with any surgical intervention, including but not limited to retinal detachment, as sanyata correctly points out. Unless one's cataracts are significant enough & responsible for reducing best correctable vision that is compromising normal visual functions, like driving, reading, functioning independantly with other more noninvasive means (such as glasses or contact lenses) then, in my opinion, you're not yet ready for cataract eye surgery. If you can't see properly with normal remedies (glasses/or contact lenses), the usual success of cataract surgery will be life changing. If one has cataract surgery, when it wasn't yet necessary, and you suffer complications, it also can be life changing.

 

Appreciate the candid response!

My opthalmologist recently said the same thing!

For such an invasive operation in such a delicate space, I think 95% is pretty good.......

Not much in life is guaranteed!

Cheers!

 

So.... Im afraid I actually knew the one guy in a million who died from complications of laser eye surgery..... was about 10 years ago
Married father of 2 young kids, he was around 35.
Developed an infection that eventually went into his brain..... was dead 2 weeks after the surgery
Sorry to put a dark side on the topic..
Not only did I know him, he's buried near my folks so I'm reminded of this often.
I personally could not go thru with it ever....

 

19VFB19 That is indeed a very sad event. An apparently healthy colleague of mine had what he thought was a flu. Just graduated at 26 yo. His father, a physician, prescribed an antibiotic. Friend died in his sleep 1-2 days later. - had 2 kids under 5 yrs old. Although this didn't happen in a public institution, an autopsy was ordered. Autopsy result-"no cause of death found". Heart just stopped. Infections can follow hospital procedures/surgeries of any kind. Eye surgeries are blitzed with antibiotics & anti- inflammatory drops before and after procedures for up to a month or longer to control infections and mitigate inflammation. Which is why even the elderly with underlying medical conditions after undergoing cataract surgery may unfortunately have eye complications of surgery, albeit rarely, but they seldom pass away from it; although I'd worry more with anasthetics in the medically compromised elderly for any surgery actually more than the eye surgery itself.

 

A couple of my friends have had this done and they think it's wonderful, the lens they insert is mutifaceted giving you reading to distance in one go. They both paid about $10K for it, neither have any complications although reading about the 5% that don't go well might make you think twice.
Not sure where they had it done - I can find out if you are intersted.

 

Eyedoc, well said. Another option most surgical place offer is monovison: one eye corrected for distance and another for near. Depending on you vision demands, this can work well for some people, but there are limitations. I usually have patients try it out with contacts for a week or two. Night time glare is still the number one complaint especially in the winter months when the days are shorter. Fine detail can be an issue at near (threading a needle) as well. If you are happy wearing glasses/contacts right now, I would not do the lens exchange.

 

I had cataract surgery at Bochner. About $7k as I recall. Amazing result. I had the eyes done on two successive days so had the experience of the intense true colour I could see with the new lens compared to the old one. Painless and perfect. My cataracts were not advanced enough for OHIP, so was private. Dr Stein at the Bochner Eye Institute. I was bothered by increasing lack of clarity for some items such as driving at night on a rainy night, Well worth the result. One of my other concerns was my habit of driving every year or two in Europe on both tracks and autobahns where speeds are very high so things can happen quite quickly. Now have 20 15 vision. Had the choice of a slightly more risky (marginal) procedure that would have removed the need for reading glasses but did not care about that. Just wanted excellent long distance vision and clarity to read a dashboard for instance. No regrets.

 

First post invisions3. Welcome to the forum.
If individual has had prior experience with contact lenses, that is surely an option with monovision trial. A little more challenging with a senior cataract patient with no contact lens handling or wearing experience, & who is already not seeing well, to handle contacts. But one can always use a monovision trial in an old glasses frame and put distance Rx in better seeing eye, and near vision in poorer eye as a trial. Of course, if the distance eye is not their naturally dominant eye, that trial exercise may not yield the experience well enough to the patient;and his glare from the cataracts would still be present, of course, compromising the effort. But it's worth a try.