Progressive Lens After Cateract Surgery

[5thwheeleroldma]

Since my cateract surgery, my progressive lens glasses don't seem to do the job any more (yes I got new prescription). Anybody else notice this? Think I will have to go with single vision, far off, lenses, and just carry some cheap readers in my pocket.

Sorry not RV topic, but you guys are my main communicators anymore.

[Expyinflight]

ReadyToGo wrote:
No two cataract surgeries are exactly alike. Wait 3 to 6 months before you spend more money. You need time for your brain and eyes to adjust. Mine clouded up and required a 2 minute laser surgery a year later. My neighbor still has halos. Mine are 20/50 and my wife is 20/20 for distance.

I agree. Give it a little time.
I had both cataracts removed at age 59. My eye doctor felt I was a good candidate for mono vision....right eye for distance, left eye for reading.
Friends and family cautioned me, and regaled me with stories of this going bad or not working....or that I would feel a "pull" between the eyes afterwards.
It did require a very brief adjustment period. Almost 3 years later, I am very happy. Right eye is 20/15. I don't 'have to' wear glasses, which many people assume they won't after cataract surgery. Many still do have to. I could easily go either way, but the eye doctor offered me a progressive lens prescription that just 'tightens things up' even a little more than without. I was already used to wearing glasses anyway, and I only take my glasses off at bedtime.

[azwildcat]

Everyone is different. In my case progressive's work fine most of the time but I find that a pair of readers works best for reading. Drug store readers didn't work for me as one eye had substantial astigmatism than the other.

[ReadyToGo]

No two cataract surgeries are exactly alike. Wait 3 to 6 months before you spend more money. You need time for your brain and eyes to adjust. Mine clouded up and required a 2 minute laser surgery a year later. My neighbor still has halos. Mine are 20/50 and my wife is 20/20 for distance.

[kerrlakeRoo]

5thwheeleroldman wrote:
Not everyone gets 20/20 with cateract surgery. My Dr. was afraid to give me 20/20 because I was very near sighted; said it could cause problems with the optic nerve to make that much correction. Mine is much better, but not 20/20.

Back to your original qx though, try a lined bi-focal. If you havent seen it Zenni is a chinese co that sells glasses cheap. Basic glasses are as low as $6.95 My lined bi-focal was about $35.00 and Mlady's no lines were about $65.
You may want to try a basic no bifocal pair or a lined bifocal pair for driving.
www.zennioptical.com

[5thwheeleroldma]

Not everyone gets 20/20 with cateract surgery. My Dr. was afraid to give me 20/20 because I was very near sighted; said it could cause problems with the optic nerve to make that much correction. Mine is much better, but not 20/20.

[Lwiddis]

My multi focals are great! No issues.

[kerrlakeRoo]

rv2go wrote:
Strange, After my wife surgery she has 20 20 vision. No glasses at all.

I had my first cataract at 47, the second a year later, and did not wear glasses after that until I was 56 and had one retina detach and my other the following year.

[rv2go]

Strange, After my wife surgery she has 20 20 vision. No glasses at all.

[lap527]

I had the distance lenses put in last fall. I was scared of the multi focal lens. Previously I wore contacts and had one for distance and one for reading, mono. Traveling and driving was a killer for me due to the eye strain. I now have great vision but wear a 1.75 contact in my right eye for reading. I am ecstatic with the results of the cataract surgery and using one contact. The only problem I experience is depth perception. My reading contact is removed every night and I wear if for a month. At the time of my surgery I was only 61 so had to cough up quite a bit for the cataract surgery but it was well worth it.

[kerrlakeRoo]

Progressive bi-focals have a very small area of full magnification where as line bi-focals give the magnification over the entire area below the line.
The problem often is based on the PD, Pupillary distance.
when you are looking at something far away, your pupils will be a couple of MM's farther apart compared to when you are looking at something up close.
If they did not take BOTH measurements when your glasses were ordered the strongest part of your magnified field may be outside the area where your eyes are focused.

[Sam_Spade]

5thwheeleroldman wrote:
Since my cateract surgery,

This is sad.
Your surgeon should have explained things to you better.
And/or done a better job.

If after cataract surgery you end up needing glasses for BOTH distance and reading.......something did not go right.
Or maybe you opted for an extremely inexpensive replacement lens.

You should discuss this with your surgeon AND your regular eye doctor before deciding what to do next.

[Dutch_12078]

The new prescription progressive lens glasses I got following my cataract surgery are working fine. I opted for the distance implants and the biggest prescription change, not surprisingly, is that the upper distance area is now zero magnification, and the mid to lower areas are lower than before. It took just a couple of hours to adjust to the new progressive lenses. A friend of ours got the split implant setup, with one eye for reading and the other for distance, and absolutely hates it. She's thinking of having the reading lens replaced with a matching distance lens even if her insurance won't pay for it.

I opted for the distance implants on the theory that if anything happened to my glasses, I could still function pretty normally, including driving, until I could access my spare glasses. And cheap reading glasses are also readily available at Walmart, drug stores, etc, if needed...