Re: cataract surgery

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:39:10 +0100, Rolf Mantel
<news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:

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.

I "had  my eyes done" twenty or so years ago. In my case they removed
the lens in both eyes and replaced them with fixed focus lenses, one
close focus and one far focus. The brain (I guess) decides which eye
to use by the required distance. At least if I'm reading and look at
what is happening across the street I notice no change in vision.
 vision.

I had the operation doe before noon on one day, wore a bandaged over
both eyes overnight and went home by noon the second day. My wife
drove that day but I was driving the day after.

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Cheers,

John B.