Cataract Removal.

[Tez31]

Has anyone had a cataract removed? If so how do you cope with good sight in the eye after the op and the bad sight in the other eye until it's time to have that done? I'm finding it very confusing and makes me feel dizzy sometimes.

 

[Gyakuto105]

I’ve had indirect experience.

The brain tends to ‘tune out’ the bad eye image and favours the ‘good eye’ producing perfectly reasonable vision. This is why people can gradually go blind in one eye without noticing until very late in their condition! So don’t worry about it. The transformation you’ll experience with a clear lens is amazing!

 

[Xue Sheng98]

Has anyone had a cataract removed? If so how do you cope with good sight in the eye after the op and the bad sight in the other eye until it's time to have that done? I'm finding it very confusing and makes me feel dizzy sometimes.

Been through that. Did not get the effect you are getting, but I gave up trying to see with both eyes and closed the one with the cataract when I was trying to see something clearly

But your brain will eventually adjust

 

[Tez31]

Cheers, I had the choice of lenses so I chose one to get decent long sight with wearing glasses just for reading. I've been extremely short sighted since I was 11 lol. I had the op on Wednesday so of course vision was very blurred with the local and the other eyedrops. Woke up Thursday morning to OMG, everything was bright and very very clear, I definitely need to spring clean the house again cos it's not as good as I thought it was. oops didn't realise I had so many wrinkles either.
I have four weeks of eye drops, an eye test then the other eye will be done. I recommend it, ten minutes of lying down and bright lights in your eye then you're done.

 

[Tony Dismukes103]

In my case, my brain just merged the two views from the bad eye and the good eye into a mediocre view that was just a bit better than the old view with both bad eyes. I only saw the dramatic improvement once both eyes were done. Never had the dizziness.

 

[HighKick]

In my case, my brain just merged the two views from the bad eye and the good eye into a mediocre view that was just a bit better than the old view with both bad eyes. I only saw the dramatic improvement once both eyes were done. Never had the dizziness.

Tony, may I ask your age?
I am near 63 but the eye doctor I went to says I need to put it off. From everything I hear and read about having the surgery, it would be a good plus for me.

 

[Xue Sheng98]

Cheers, I had the choice of lenses so I chose one to get decent long sight with wearing glasses just for reading. I've been extremely short sighted since I was 11 lol. I had the op on Wednesday so of course vision was very blurred with the local and the other eyedrops. Woke up Thursday morning to OMG, everything was bright and very very clear, I definitely need to spring clean the house again cos it's not as good as I thought it was. oops didn't realise I had so many wrinkles either.
I have four weeks of eye drops, an eye test then the other eye will be done. I recommend it, ten minutes of lying down and bright lights in your eye then you're done.

did the same, could no believe how bright things were, how much there was, how old I got …. Only don’t do what I did a few months later… don’t get a detached retina ..

And @Tez3 , good to see you on MT again. Other than cataract, how have things been

 

[Tony Dismukes103]

Tony, may I ask your age?
I am near 63 but the eye doctor I went to says I need to put it off. From everything I hear and read about having the surgery, it would be a good plus for me.

I'm a couple of months away from turning 62. I had the cataract surgery about 5 years ago, I think. There was no question that I needed it because my vision went sharply downhill over less than six months. If it had continued at the same rate, I would have been unsafe to drive within a year.

The surgery was one of the smoothest, easiest, and most painless medical procedures I've ever experienced. I think I spent more time in the waiting room than it actually took for the entire surgery. Very glad I had it done.

 

[Xue Sheng98]

I'm a couple of months away from turning 62. I had the cataract surgery about 5 years ago, I think. There was no question that I needed it because my vision went sharply downhill over less than six months. If it had continued at the same rate, I would have been unsafe to drive within a year.

The surgery was one of the smoothest, easiest, and most painless medical procedures I've ever experienced. I think I spent more time in the waiting room than it actually took for the entire surgery. Very glad I had it done.

I refer to it as one of the best naps I had

 

[Gyakuto105]

Woke up Thursday morning to OMG, everything was bright and very very clear, I definitely need to spring clean the house again

That’s not a good side effect. Maybe your brain will eventually tune out cobwebs and dust bunnies!

oops didn't realise I had so many wrinkles either.

Oh no! Anyway, they’re ‘character’

I have four weeks of eye drops, an eye test then the other eye will be done. I recommend it, ten minutes of lying down and bright lights in your eye then you're done.

I’ve already started going opaque allow a normal amount for my age, so that will be my fate.

 

[Wing Woo Gar39]

I’ve had indirect experience.

The brain tends to ‘tune out’ the bad eye image and favours the ‘good eye’ producing perfectly reasonable vision. This is why people can gradually go blind in one eye without noticing until very late in their condition! So don’t worry about it. The transformation you’ll experience with a clear lens is amazing!

This is true. I lost about 25-30% of the vision in my right eye. It bothered me for a year or so but my good eye fills in the damaged spots now so I don’t notice the deficit unless left eye is closed.

 

[Gyakuto105]

The missing part of an image, like the point where the optic nerve exits the eye, is seamlessly filled in by the brain’s primary visual cortex so you don’t notice it. The brain also produces all the colours we see; there’s no colour in the outside world, our brains create it!

 

[Tez31]

did the same, could no believe how bright things were, how much there was, how old I got …. Only don’t do what I did a few months later… don’t get a detached retina ..

And @Tez3 , good to see you on MT again. Other than cataract, how have things been

Things aren't too bad thanks, I think I haven't posted much because I've been here soooo long and there's very few subjects that are new to me now lol. I joined when I was 50 and I'm 72 now

I also have glaucoma, inherited from my dad, but with drops it's holding steady so I intend to really enjoy my new sight.

 

[Xue Sheng98]

Things aren't too bad thanks, I think I haven't posted much because I've been here soooo long and there's very few subjects that are new to me now lol. I joined when I was 50 and I'm 72 now

I also have glaucoma, inherited from my dad, but with drops it's holding steady so I intend to really enjoy my new sight.

I joined when I was in my 40s, now in my 60s, so I hear you on that. These days it is mostly just for killing time in the office as I head for retirement.

Glad the glaucoma is under control. Due to all my eye surgeries, cataracts and 2 for detached retina in one eye, I to need drops every day, and plugs in tear ducts, otherwise get so darn dry

After cataract surgery I was amazed at how bright, shiny and clear things were. And, at least for me, the surgery was one of the easiest I have had, like I said, basically it was a nice nap

 

[windwalker099105]

The brain also produces all the colours we see; there’s no colour in the outside world, our brains create it!

It might be better to say the outside world provides the physical input (light wavelengths), and the brain interprets that as color.
Some insects and animals don’t perceive the same wavelengths we do, so the world likely looks very different to them.

 

[Gyakuto105]

We don’t even know if different humans ‘see’ colours the same. My blue might be your turquoise

 

[Wing Woo Gar39]

We don’t even know if different humans ‘see’ colours the same. My blue might be your turquoise

Color blind people interpret colors differently so…

 

[Gyakuto105]

The doubt about the trichromatic theory of colour vision came about by two observations; in a room with just monochromatic yellow light (nothing but one wavelength of light) shadows were seen to be blue. How? There’s no blue light in there! How can red, green and blue light be mixed to produce the colour brown? Has anyone seen a brown beam of light? Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera went about investigating this an came up with the colour constancy theory of colour vision!

 

[Wing Woo Gar39]

The doubt about the trichromatic theory of colour vision came about by two observations; in a room with just monochromatic yellow light (nothing but one wavelength of light) shadows were seen to be blue. How? There’s no blue light in there! How can red, green and blue light be mixed to produce the colour brown? Has anyone seen a brown beam of light? Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera went about investigating this a came up with the colour constancy theory of colour vision!

Interesting. When scuba diving, one loses the reds completely at around 15-20 ft. Of depth. Then oranges, yellows etc. anything at 50 ft deep or beyond without artificial light is just blue, black, or grey. 120ft is just dark.

 

[Gyakuto105]

Interesting. When scuba diving, one loses the reds completely at around 15-20 ft. Of depth.

That’ll be the filtering effect of the water ?Rayleigh’s scatering?

Then oranges, yellows etc. anything at 50 ft deep or beyond without artificial light is just blue, black, or grey. 120ft is just dark.

Then it’s the colour receptors don’t have enough light to be operated and you enter the scotopic range where only the rods in the retina operated.

10 feet and I’d be panicking!