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Good fortune, LD.

Thanks, Doc.

Medicare and United American.

Did you opt for the multi-focal lenses, laser procedure, and stigmatism correction done at a surgical center?

I am getting shots in my right eye for retina problems. First injection helped so much, I may need only one or two more and cataract surgery may not be needed.

Getting a needle in your eyeball is interesting...

Yep, Medicare and Ins dont cover the added expense of astigmatic correction or multifocal IOLs.

My Dad flew in the Air Force from 1955 to 1975, and charters for a few years after that, was a Depression farm kid prior so his corneas were pretty much cooked early. My Mom failed her eye test when she was 78. Both had pretty good results afterward, Dad can still see 20/12 distant in both eyes on the chart, which tells you what a freak of nature he is, and why he flew fighters.

I am starting to have trouble with my night vision, too much flaring which is taking the fun out of night driving. I'm 60. Always wore shades or goggles, but still, lots of snow time. Always nearsighted, but corrected to 20/15 both sides. My issue is, I have always been astigmatic and I can't be corrected properly any more with eyeglasses, so I'm thinking I should go ahead and get rid of the original, maybe end up mildly nearsighted but no longer astigmatic. Glasses are good for eye protection anyway and I spend a lot of time around power tools anyway. Anyone know if I will get 20 years out of implants before they need to be replaced?

Don't you love Obama care...

They dont wear out Pal. You will be long gone before they need to be replaced.

I've been putting up with blurry / fuzzy vision for quite awhile but last Friday my opthomologist told me AGAIN that I didn't need new glasses but that I needed cataract surgery.....she highly recommended a gal and I went to see her Tuesday.

After the exam and a long talk with the surgeon I'm scheduled to have one eye done 6-22 and the other 7-6 using what she called 'light IV sedation'......she said that I'll still need to wear reading glasses afterwards but that my distance vision will be much improved.

Someone messing with my eyes really spooks me and I'm honestly not looking forward to it but it has needed to be done for awhile so I guess it's time I put on my big boy pants and get it done.

IKE, I've had it done and have actually had rougher haircuts. Seriously. You will regret wasting so much worry. ;-{>8

I think I'm out about 8k, ins didn't pay for the laser removal or toric lens. Might be some copay in that as well.
So far its money well spent. I thought about pulling the focus back some or multi focus lens but neither would keep me from wearing glasses for all tasks so I went with perfect distance and deal with readers. My job requires some small close up work so I got a set of occupational lens so I could see things up close overhead and down with 0 in the middle.

Smart move.

We paid for the trifocal lenses. Left eye was done last Tuesday, pistol sights are crisp for the first time in many years. I can read without readers ok, when the right eye is done I’ll be good without readers.
Im a complete freak about anybody touching my eyes but the surgery was perfect and I can’t wait to get the other one done

I was very myopic before and the time between surgeries was terrible, the uncorrected eye, even with contact lens, image was about 8% smaller than the fixed eye. Very disorienting and fugged up depth perception. That and I was afraid the hospital would stop that kind of surgery due to the lung funk.

Doc, had the first eye done today. Got to surgical center at 5:45 am and was on my way home by 8:45. The procedures took very little time. About 5-10 mins for the laser, 15-20 for the cataract removal and install of IOL.

FYI- the IOL the doc put in is a Tecnis Symfony ZXR00, Diopter +23.50, by Johnson & Johnson.

I believe this is the standard technology right now unless you go to something like the Zeiss Tri-focal.

I hope you do well. Let us know how sharp your visual acuity is after a few weeks.

i don't relate well to doctors, and i was scared sh*tless about the operation. on the first eye laying on the gurney, they were trying to sedate me enough to allow the operation without knocking me out. i was holding on to one of the rails on the gurney and actually bent it i was so wired.
they later told me they gave me enough junk to knock a horse out. second operation was much easier on my psyche.

I had both eyes done a couple years ago and was pretty thrilled with the results. I could drive without glasses and vision was pretty close to 20/20. 2 years later, and my left eye (my shooting eye) is like my eyeball is smeared with vaseline. I can still shoot with a scope but iron sights are virtually impossible. I'm hoping this is fixable. My right eye is still great. If it was the other way around, I wouldn't mind so much. GD

You have possibly developed Elshnigs Pearls (after -cataract) clouding of the posterior capsule of your old natural lens easily cleared by in office laser treatment.
OTOH, you could be developing a retinal condition. Due to that possibility I'd get checked sooner than later.

Me too. Had the option of both close, both distance or one each.

Compromises often don't work, so I went both far. Wore specs for 50 years, so needing cheap reading glasses was a good tradeoff for me.

Between my wife's and my insurance, OOP expense was just the deductables., which may have already been met by then, as it was July.


Problem is, I often find myself wanting three powers - one for arms's length, one mid distance, one real close.....

That eye differential between surgeries was real fun!