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Have any of you good folks had a cataract removed? If so ...............

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........... what was your experience?

I am not sure that I REALLY want to know as I am a fecking wuss, but I have already had 4 eye injections that are improving the Macular shit (my medical term)

BTW, I will be answering as Male gender (and non Daystate owner) before the Op. :ROFLMAO:
 
ive had 2 done , seperately , operation was easy ,done under local anasthetic 10-15 mins all done. no pain no problems . the only thing thats a bit of a hassle is the amount of eye drops for weeks afterwards, but even that is nothing when you get your sight back.
 
Yes both was good for six months naw shit I'm now on waiting list for corrective op lazar surgery .
 
I had mine done last year... WOW.... what a transformation....... SPA Medica in Bradfford (under the NHS)

I have ALWAYS been a bit funny about my eyes (memories of Nurse Sangster digging swarf and grit out of my eyes when I was an apprentice!!)... but the proceedure was quick, PAIN FREE and the transformation was off the scale...

I would recommend it to anyone who needs cataract surgey....
 
Cam said:
........... what was your experience?

I am not sure that I REALLY want to know as I am a fecking wuss, but I have already had 4 eye injections that are improving the Macular shit (my medical term)

BTW, I will be answering as Male gender (and non Daystate owner) before the Op. :ROFLMAO:
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Cam.. owning a Daystate does NOT make you a bad person!!!!!

Odd perhaps.. !!!
 
Pretty much a painless procedure, I promise you that after it's done you will wonder why you were worried about it. The difference afterwards is pretty much like watching HD TV for the first time.
 
My mothers who is 87 has had both of her eyes done about six weeks apart and said it's not to bad a little bit sore after but nothing to worry about , she was only in for about half an hour so not much to worry about really and said she can see miles better now she's had them done .
 
Many thanks to you all!

I attended my consultant last week for a face to face. He's a fantastic Greek guy called Makris (my son reckons his name should be Macro :ROFLMAO: )

Any road up, I think he said I need assessing for the correct lens. I said to him, "does this mean I am going to part Bionic"? He just smiled. Does this mean that I will have an artificial lens in my right eye?

Unfortunately, the pre-op practitioner was over-booked and I was sent home (which, IMO, due to my right eye deteriorating) means that a pre-op consultation will more more specific to my condition at the time.
 
Mother and wife have both had cataracts done. Mother (90+ years old) was very nervous, to say the least, but less so after the first one, saying it was painless and nothing to worry about.
Wife was a bag of nerves for the first one and got the GP to issue her a sedative, just so she could get through the door. Not required for the second one which happened a couple of months late.

Both were done under the NHS and have had a really good outcome.
 
Had one done in left eye in Feb no issues there are always risk, but that also includes crossing the road, flying or eating a peanut.
Just need glasses for reading now 👍🏻
 
Dog said:
Yes both was good for six months naw shit I'm now on waiting list for corrective op lazar surgery .
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I think the problem is the steroid drops after the op cause some calcium (I think) fogging to the newly implanted lens, this is then cleared away via the laser treatment and everything is clear again.
 
I had both done several years ago. The operations were simple and painless and took no time at all. My wife is at least as big a wuss as you sound and she was astonished at how easy and painless it all was when she had hers done a couple of months ago. All in all the process was great and so were the results.
 
I’ve not read the other replies but yes, both eyes, privately, two weeks apart. By the time of the operations I’d stopped driving at night and was getting close to stopping driving altogether so I guess the cataracts were fairly advanced. Prior to the ops my very near vision was good unaided, up to about a foot or so. Distance vision was poor, I’d been wearing glasses all my life.

The operation completely totalled my unaided near vision, some of it is back with new glasses but not to the extent it was before. My distance vision is now good, very good although I still wear bifocals more for the convenience of having my reading glasses on the end of my nose than anything else.

Reading - that pleasure has been totalled. There appears to be floaters in both eyes that are always in the wrong place and they haven’t changed/moved in the 3ish years since the operation; my ophthalmologist says there is nothing he can do.

Clearly my glasses prescription has changed and since the new prescription I’m having a nightmare keeping the things clean. ’Plastic’ lenses which get dirty in (it seems) minutes. My High Street optician seems unable to help, he’s getting kicked into touch next time around.

The operations were a complete doddle/non-event, not a hint of discomfort. Lovely anaesthetist on my first visit who explained drops go in to anaesthetise the eye prior to anaesthetising the eye so I don’t feel the final anaesthetic going in, 3 separate levels of anaesthetic that worked perfectly. The time taken for her to do her job was as long as the operation took which you can’t see or sense anything of.

If you need cataracts removed then it has to be done, no other option. Hope all this helps, I’ll now go and read the other answers and see if I’ve missed anything.
 
Inca said:
Clearly my glasses prescription has changed and since the new prescription I’m having a nightmare keeping the things clean. ’Plastic’ lenses which get dirty in (it seems) minutes. My High Street optician seems unable to help, he’s getting kicked into touch next time around.
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If your glasses have an anti glare coating on the lens they will be a nightmare to keep clean. For some reason the coating attracts dirt and marks very easily.
I now never have anti glare treatment on my lens.
 
My brother had both eyes done and he's a real wuss and extremely claustrophobic. He was worried about being held in place but all went well because he went and had the second eye done. He's glad it did it.
 
My Aunt did , said nice and easy , best thing she ever done
 
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