Cataracts Treatment

Question by TheEyeGuy: Why do eye diseases mostly occur in people who wear strong glasses or corrections for many years?
eye diseases like macular degeneration, retinal detachment, and cataracts?

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Answer by Stormy
A lot of those conditions are more prone to the elderly, sometimes people with high negative prescriptions (myopes) are more prone to retinal detachments because their eye is more in the shape of an egg than round like average, leaving their retina more prone to damage.

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Question by youknowregular106: Are there special glasses that helps you see real close?
My mother has to renew her license and she has to pass the eye test at the DMV. She has cataracts. Doctor doesn’t recommend surgery, but she may not be able to pass the eye test even with glasses. Are there special non-obvious eyeglasses that can help her pass?

Telescopic, bioptic lenses are too obvious. She can drive, and there is another procedure she can still do to renew her license, but it’s a hassle.

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Answer by evangldbrg
If she can’t pass her driver’s test with regular glasses she shouldn’t have the right to drive. I don’t want a 80 year old person going 30 mph on the highway.

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Question by gomezio210: can transition glasses worsen a cataract?
I have been wearing transition glasses for abot 4 year now and have found that it has gotten worse. I use to able to see in dark lit areas and now have complete whiteout. I thought it was because I was aging but now I wonder if it could be caused by transition glasses. History of cataract was eye trauma when I was a child, i lived through it and even joined the army with a small cataract that did not affect vision. I am 32 year old and have nearly zero vision in eye. My prescription on good eye has not change since I first wore corrective glasses.

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Answer by L S
I think you need to get back to your optician. 32 is very young to be running into vision trouble, although the trauma as a child may have something to do with it. You may have something else going on; there are other problems that come up, some of which can be corrected if caught early enough. I’ve gone back to my optician early twice in the last few years because of odd happenings so don’t feel embarrassed. Your eyesight is too precious to muck around with.

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Question by needya: who needs those thick glasses after cataract surgery and why? thax in advance.?

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Answer by princeidoc
great question!

most modern cataract extractions involve replacing the crystalline lens with a silicone or acrylic implant. the patient usually still needs glasses or bifocals, but the glasses are generally normal & not thick.

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prior to say the 1970’s, a lot of cataract extraction surgeries involved removing the cataract, but not replacing the lens with an implant. the result is called “aphakia” & leavess the patient VERY FARSIGHTED…usually around +15.00 diopters. hence the very thick “coke bottle” glasses

this is less & less common, as all cataract surgeries in the US & UK nowadays are lens “replacements” not just lens “extractions”.

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Question from Laura : Why does my friend glasses after cataract surgery? She is 65 years old.? be used before surgery to wear sunglasses and reading glasses for distance. It can now read without glasses, but she was not capable of things that seem too far from its two steps best answer:

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