Cataracts Treatment

Question by Mimi: 14y/o had cataract surgery at 1y/o .Which surgery comes first lens implant or astigmatism? Does it matter?

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Answer by Hillbert
Depends — unless it’s a large amount of astigmatism, it usually is “both”. You either get a toric lens implant, or limbal relaxing incisions (which goes by different names; basically small incisions that make the cornea more spherical when it heals). A toric lens would be implanted instead of a ‘regular’ (spherical) one, whereas the other corneal incisions are usually done at the same time as the regular lens implant. Either way, it shouldn’t make much difference.

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Question by Eva L: Have a lazy eye and cataract. Which is more important to fix first?
I had a bad eye injury a few years ago that really messed up my eye.

I had a detached retina which I had to have surgery on and lost my vision in that eye. Over time it started crossing and developed a cataract. It didn’t look that bad at first so I was going to leave it alone. The turn was very small and the cataract was just a haze.

Now my eye is turning in a lot and I look very “cross eyed” plus the cataract has completely filled in and you can’t see much of my iris.

I feel like my eye is very sensitive and don’t want too much surgery at once, so which ever surgery I get I wont do the other one for a while. But I don’t know what to first.

What would you do? I know most people can’t relate to this

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Answer by Ashley
i would say the lazy eye. that way you can kind of get used to what it will be like with 2 straight eyes before getting rid of the cataract, because it seems like if you got rid of the cataract first, you would get used to your vision being unlined, and then it would be weird to get it fixed, i hope i explained it ok, lol.

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Question by gerbera: I need cataract surgery in one eye and pressure possible glaucoma. Should I have cataracts removed first?

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Answer by patriot_f16
One of the post cataract surgery complication is glaucoma. You need to know the type of cataract surgery that you are going to have (phaco or complete removal of the lens). And try to look for the best ophthalmologist around to have least complication

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Question by Rasputin: Need Cataract surgery and Diabetic Retinopathy surgery,which should be done first?

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Answer by sanjana
here is the info about both the surgery…

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question by monkey12 : cataract surgery after surgery on the first day to rest my eyes or watch TV, go to work, driving, etc.? I find no answer for what to expect that the first few days after .. best answer: response armouror2000 had
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