I've got a date to have my cataract op in a couple of months time on the NHS - this would be for simple monovision lenses.
However, I'm tempted by the possibility of binning the glasses with multivision lenses but worried about side effects - particularly halos, flares, issues with night driving, low light vision.
I think maybe the EDOF lenses might be a better option giving good vision for distance and intermediate with less risk of side effects.
Any experiences - particularly of EDOF lenses?
Thanks
I havent had it done but did a consultation about lens replacement with Johnson and Johnson multi focal lenses. What shocked me was that the dont work well close up and at the moment my near vision is better than after the replacement. Suffice to say the idea of replaceing lenses are currently on the back burner for now
Im currently waiting form mine. Mum was done (both eyes, one at a time only a few months ago and mum can be rather moany about niggles and pain-though she is 84, so understandable, and fact she hasnt said anything its clearly been a roaring success.
Mine is a bit of a horror story, and we havent even had it done yet.I've 'early onset'(im in my 50's)
Optician finds they are developing, says he'll refer me for the operation, says the waiting time is about 9 months.
After 8 months I phone the NHS optometry dept- They've never heard of me.
Instantly contact my optician, where he tells me he forgot to do the referral and would put it through as an emergency(appeared to have no priority
But it goes through and im now on the list. 9 month wait.
8 months in i phone to find out my position on the list and find it will be another couple of months till my first consultation, and told that after this consultation its usually a 6-8week wait for the actual procedure itself.
We have recently found out that instead of 6-8 weeks, it could be another 7 pr 8 months, bringing my total wait time thus far to 18 or so months, with a possibility of having to wait another 8 months, meaning i could have had to wait from first diagnosis to operation of 2 years 2+months
Currently i can hardly see, and bright light totally blinds me, even the light off the tV makes it near impossible to see whats on the screen. This is being typed out in inverted colours with a black screen/white lettering
Im kind of housebound but cycle to the shops(100m or so) even though i shouldnt and cant actually see any cars, im basically riding on instinct and very very slowly(oh how the mighty have fallen)
I know there are downsides and while you'll end up with excellent far sight, near sight is not good and ill always need to wear reading glasses.
After 18 months of slowly going blind, i couldnt give a F*** if i have to wear reading glasses or regular glasses, get flashes, halos or whatever. I just want to be able to see again because this is very depressing and leading me towards dark thoughts.
SIL had hers done very quickly, but they apparently were bad - she was still driving ! She's had complications with one of the eyes and is still waiting to get that fixed.
I've looked into replacement IOLs just for vision correction rather than cataracts and one option seems to be different focal length lenses in each eye. It sounds headache-inducing but apparently your brain adapts to it (although that can take a while). For the time being I'm just waiting until my vision gets more of an issue as I keep wondering if there will be some sort of break through technology just around the corner (appreciate that someone with cataracts doesn't have that option)
