Cataracts Treatment

Question by Jake F: Should I get prescription reading glasses?
I really don’t know what to do.

Since I was 11 (14 years ago as I am now 25) or maybe younger I have been wearing glasses. The problem, if indeed it is one, is that during that entire period I have been wearing my distance glasses for absolutely everything including extremely close work and reading music.

Thus, I believe that both sides of my vision are bad. Reading street signs even with my distance glasses is tough, and yet if I take them off I can’t read this computer screen.

If I get reading glasses, will it take some of the strain off of my eyes? (I am referring to the notion that reading with reading glasses would be better than reading with distance glasses.)

What I don’t get is that, when I tell an optician (optometrist? whoever does the eye exam at the eyeglasses store…) that they are for distance, they don’t pick up that since I walked in wearing them that I am wearing them for absolutely everything and that that might be a bad thing.

I asked her about reading glasses and she said “oh you’re still young and you should let your eyes focus naturally while reading” but I forgot to tell her that they are already crap since I have been wearing my distance glasses for everything, and so you should give me reading glasses because that’s what I came here for. But instead I just sheepishly took her comment and ended up leaving with, well, not what I wanted or what I thought I needed.

So basically should I get prescription reading glasses and would it help me?

(The ones at the checkout counter at the drug store don’t work for me, probably because I also have a stigmatism.)

And no, for the time being I am opposed to surgery unless they can knock me out at the door and have me wake up without remembering it. But supposedly they can’t know you out because your eyes move uncontrollably.

I have seen videos of the surgery where they are holding your eyes open with clamps, and I think it is also necessary to do so for laser surgery. I’m not letting anything like that near my eyes if I’m aware of it. And if they have to tie you down to the bed to keep you from batting the doctor’s hands away, then that’s akin to torture. (And even if they tell you that you won’t be able to see it, that’s not true either. A friend of my mom’s had cataract surgery and he could see the curved needle coming down to sew up his eye even though he couldn’t feel it.)

But supposedly they have to keep you aware because, if they out you to sleep, your eyes move all around and they can’t do the surgery.

Well, sorry if this turned into a flaming rant but I will leave it this way to show how concerned and/or scared.

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Answer by Thiective
No problem, as for moving your eyes while sleeping is called rapid eye movement, or REM. Here is an easy solution, get your eyes checked by an optician at a store which sells glasses, at a clinic, not so sure about the drug store, or at the hospital. From there, the optician or the employees will tell and prescribe the prescription glasses you need. The reason I suggested this is because I was worried on whether I need to use glasses or not, turns out on one side its 0 while the other is 25. My cousin isn’t so lucky and she has 50 and 50 on both sides, and we’ve suggested to get her glasses after seeing an optician. As for the laser surgery, I guess its not all that bad, as long as you look good wearing glasses, in my personal opinion, don’t take it, my dad did, and it took me one or two years to get used it, since he looks more better with the glasses on.

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Question by rg: Why does vision in my left eye rotate clockwise 3 degrees? True with or w/o glasses. Not true for right eye.?
Has been true both before and after cataract removal in both eyes. Neither of my opthalmologists (one for cataract removal the other for early stage glaucoma) can provide an answer. I am 71.

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Answer by darealqueen
It sounds like age related macular degeneration to me ARMD

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Question by muggs: Should you see clear out of your new eye glasses?
I got an eye exam was told my distance has improved and close up was a bit weaker. I have had these eye glasses/bi Focal for around four years now figured time to replace them since nose piece kept needing repaired.
So! I put the new glasses on and can’t see clear enough to drive home. The Tech. told me I have to wear the new glasses for at least 10 days so my brain will get use to the new lens. Well it has been two months now and I have gone back to my old glasses. The eye doctor said if I can’t see clearly out of the new glasses that must be a sign that I have Cataracts come in and get my eyes dilated.
What do you make of this?

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Answer by Dr KOSTA
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Question by jackie: If I don’t wear my glasses my eye turns inward?
I have a cataract in my right eye – I wear varifocals with prescription
right -7.00 -1.00 +3.75
left +.50 0.00 +3.75

Recently when I take my glasses off – my right eye slides in towards my nose.

If I get surgery on my cataract – will this still be a problem afterwards – and will I still need reading glasses after surgery. It seems like I am getting a lazy eye – will this be a problem afterwards!

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Answer by princeidoc
“If I get surgery on my cataract – will this still be a problem afterwards”

PROBABLY NOT

“and will I still need reading glasses after surgery”

YES, unless you pay extra (a lot extra) to get a multifocal lens

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Question by chefjoezieger: my right eye went blurry 2 months ago,I got glasses now it is blurry again. i am 56. can it be cataracts?

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bentley coupe

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