Experience With Cataracts
Have you been diagnosed with cataracts along with macular degeneration? How do you find yourself managing both on a day-to-day basis?
Share your experience with our community.
Cataract surgery went well . No need for gasses for dissent vision. My surroundings are brighter. Need good jiighting and magnifiers for reading as well as glasses. In two weeks I will give up my driving license. Bumm but mt wife will be the druver
@Brown Eyed Girl the lenses are for/ distance not much discussion ihanks for your comment
John
A decade ago, years before I was diagnosed with (Myopic) AMD, I had my natural lenses replaced with artificial lenses due to cataracts. It was done in my ophthalmologist's office, and I was under "twilight" sedation. It was an amazingly fast and painless process. Because I am extremely myopic, she decided against trying to implant a corrective artificial lens. My sister with similar myopia more recently had corrective lenses implanted with slight glasses correction. If I was doing it today, I would opt for corrective lenses. Something to consider since you only really get one easy shot at replacing your natural lenses in a cataract situation.
I have wet AMD in left eye and dry in right. I had laser cataract surgery with lens implant in left eye 5 years ago. I spent a lot of money on this surgery and there was no benefit to my vision. The cataract on right (dry) eye is getting worse, and I will soon need to have surgery on that eye. I am holding off as long as I can because that is the only "good" eye I have now, afraid the surgery could worsen the AMD in the dry eye.
My retina specialist advised me to wait as long as possible for the cataract surgery on the dry eye, as there is a chance that the AMD could progress.
I had cataracts removed from both eyes in April and August of 2022. Then went from dry to wet in my left eye November 2022. My right eye stayed dry until July 2024 when I was advised by my retina specialist when I was there my shot in left eye, their tests showed my right eye had gone wet. I was shocked because I hadn’t seen a change, the crooked lines, during my daily tests. My RS gives me shots in both eyes every five weeks now and I am doing fine getting both shots.
