Just got my new eyeball!

[ChristisKing]

Wife put the drops in my eyes for days before and 4 weeks after.

You're a male!?

 

[Woodznutz]

I'm only 36 years old so I'm fifty years younger than you, but considering the fact that I have an awful lot of trouble with people touching my eyes I'm sort of scared for when it'll be my turn, since I heard that you're not asleep for it and you can't move, but I also heard that you don't feel anything either. So I'm less scared about it now actually.

Hopefully you'll never need the procedure, but if you do it is completely painless from start to finish. It's miraculous really.

 

[debbiedowner]

You're a male!?

Last time I checked.

 

[ChristisKing]

Last time I checked.

With a username like debbiedowner I always thought that you were a woman.

 

[ChristisKing]

Hopefully you'll never need the procedure, but if you do it is completely painless from start to finish. It's miraculous really.

I thought that we all need it eventually if we live long enough.

 

[Woodznutz]

I thought that we all need it eventually if we live long enough.

My cataracts had stabilized and I could easily have lived with them, but I needed my vision restored so I can see to shoot my bow and my guns. Most will get cataracts but not everyone will need them treated. The procedure corrects not only the vision loss from the cataracts but the loss of vision acuity/focus. It's a "twofer".

 

[debbiedowner]

With a username like debbiedowner I always thought that you were a woman.

Ever hear of debbie downer on SNL many years ago? The name came up in an article when I was trying to choose my user name and I went from there.

 

[ChristisKing]

Ever hear of debbie downer on SNL many years ago?

Yeah, I LOVE the Disney World one. I personally think that the skit itself isn't that funny, but having everybody breaking down is what's hilarious.

 

[debbiedowner]

Yeah, I LOVE the Disney World one. I personally think that the skit itself isn't that funny, but having everybody breaking down is what's hilarious.

I don't even remember of any of the skits but I did back then think many were funny.

 

[toobfreak]

I need to do the same, but not for a while. And my big problem is floaters, which the doc said she couldn't do anything about.

Floaters I believe are just the same vitreous humor as fills the eye that a little of it crystallized out of suspension. I believe they can focus a laser to hit them and sort of blow them up putting them back into suspension dissolved (with you knocked out of course). When your doctor said there was nothing he could do, probably what he really meant is that your insurance didn't cover it.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Had cataract surgery yesterday with new lens implant. Took bandage off this morning and WOW! what a difference. Eye is still a bit cloudy but that will clear up. I tested it by holding my bow at arm's length and the sight pin is crystal clear! Before I couldn't see it at all. I will be bowhunting again this fall. I'll have the other eye done in two weeks.

I take back all the rotten things I've said about modern medicine (well, some of them anyway).

Thanks for posting this. I am due for similar surgery in the next year or so.

 

[Gary Seven]

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I need to do the same, but not for a while. And my big problem is floaters, which the doc said she couldn't do anything about.

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I don't know why the hell someone would call your post "fake news" unless maybe it was a typo.

I get floaters too. Sometimes kind of bad and sometimes hardly at all. I noticed one of the worst environments for my eyes is actually my local WALMART!. I know that might sound kind of weird but it's true. There are many different Office buildings and retail environments I've been in with fluorescent lighting and it just doesn't seem to mess with my eyes as much as that place. I also live near a city that is kind of known for its poor air quality. That seems to affect my eyes too especially in summer. Sometimes I get wicked eyelid spasms along with floaters at the same time and it drives me crazy. I almost can't focus on anything at all. A few times I've had to pull over while driving.

Well, good luck with yours. Hopefully eventually some professional can help you...and me.

 

[toobfreak]

Thanks for posting this. I am due for similar surgery in the next year or so.

Due in a year or so. I love the wording! That is medical terminology for: "Let's wait until absolutely unavoidable and hope that the patient dies first waiting for the operation in the interim!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I don't know why the hell someone would call your post "fake news" unless maybe it was a typo.

I get floaters too. Sometimes kind of bad and sometimes hardly at all. I noticed one of the worst environments for my eyes is actually my local WALMART!. I know that might sound kind of weird but it's true. There are many different Office buildings and retail environments I've been in with fluorescent lighting and it just doesn't seem to mess with my eyes as much as that place. I also live near a city that is kind of known for its poor air quality. That seems to affect my eyes too especially in summer. Sometimes I get wicked eyelid spasms along with floaters at the same time and it drives me crazy. I almost can't focus on anything at all. A few times I've had to pull over while driving.

Well, good luck with yours. Hopefully eventually some professional can help you...and me.

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Mine seem permanent and are so severe that, if I close my left eye and try to drive using just my right, it's difficult. But my left eye makes up for it.

Please be careful on the road!

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[Winco]

Had cataract surgery yesterday with new lens implant.

Good for you.
That surgery is a life changer.
Had both eyes done (weeks apart also) in 2022. At 60.

No more contacts, they irritated by eyes severely, but hard contacts did help my vision. But thank goodness they are in the past.

Now I wake up and can see.
See the clock, the TV, pictures on the wall, etc.

After 4 years, my vision is still good, but not as good as months after.
Things still change with your eyes, but it is so much better.

Congrats, and I wish you be best success.

 

[the watcher]

I had a hole in my right retina that was somewhat repaired and cataract removed, still too blurry for shooting. Left eye cataract removed and lased, results good. I can shoot a pistol using my left eye, and holding with my right hand, but don't practice enough to build muscle memory. Our range had a fire and I don't think it's opened up yet. I really miss duck hunting and bow hunting, don't think I could do it properly now.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I had a hole in my right retina that was somewhat repaired and cataract removed, still too blurry for shooting. Left eye cataract removed and lased, results good. I can shoot a pistol using my left eye, and holding with my right hand, but don't practice enough to build muscle memory. Our range had a fire and I don't think it's opened up yet. I really miss duck hunting and bow hunting, don't think I could do it properly now.

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My first shooting teacher notice that I shoot with my strong hand -- right -- but aim with my left eye, and he told me it was impossible to shoot that way -- until I outshot him on my second lesson.

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[LibertyWeeps]

Had cataract surgery yesterday with new lens implant. Took bandage off this morning and WOW! what a difference. Eye is still a bit cloudy but that will clear up. I tested it by holding my bow at arm's length and the sight pin is crystal clear! Before I couldn't see it at all. I will be bowhunting again this fall. I'll have the other eye done in two weeks.

I take back all the rotten things I've said about modern medicine (well, some of them anyway).

Sounds like you got a really skilled doctor.

I've heard SO many horror stories about eye doctors who aren't skilled, and making people blind, or cause tons of other medical issues the patinets end up having the rest of their lives because it was all done wrong.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

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My first shooting teacher notice that I shoot with my strong hand -- right -- but aim with my left eye, and he told me it was impossible to shoot that way -- until I outshot him on my second lesson.

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I love stories with happy endings!!!

LOL

 

[braalian]

The title of this thread made me think the OP got a new glass eye or something