Cataracts Treatment

Question by Jessica: Am I able to get LASIK if I have an artificial lens implant on my eye?
Whenever I was three years old I had gotten a cataract as a side effect of an infection I had gotten. To fix, correct or remove the cataract I had an artificial lens implant. I’ve had very poor eye sight out of the eye that was operated on ever since. I can only see general shapes and colors and make out objects and recognize people. I’m now twenty years old and would like to look into getting LASIK to try and correct my vison or just improve it. So my question is does anyone know if after having an artificial lens implant am I able to have LASIK.

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Answer by David
doubt it. ask an eye doctor.

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Question by Black: After Cataract surgery what holds the new lens in place?
Is it suction, a vacuum, glue, auto-natural grafting of some kind or even Magic? What exactly hold the new lens in the proper place inside the eye after Cataract scalpel surgery? And please, we all know it is NOT duct tape.
Good grief, any chance you could append that into grade ‘normal’ English? Why do Brainy-achs have to speak or write like they just stepped out of a clinical text book?
But, thanks for that link, it was helpful.
Seals – Thanks for that pic. Now that was very helpful and understandable. *Grins*
The first answer was also very helpful if not a bit anagram-ish while filled with medical terminology only another Doctor could understand.
I love simple explanations like Seals.
THX
~mib

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Answer by Stephen
* ris supported PIOLs: this type is gaining more and more popularity. The IOL is attached by claws to the mid peripheral iris by a technique called enclavation. It is believed to have a lesser effect on corneal endothelium.

* Sulcus supported PIOLs: these IOLS are placed in the posterior chamber in front of the natural crystalline lens. They have special vaulting so as not to be in contact with the normal lens. The main complications with this type is their tendency to cause cataracts and/or pigment dispersion.

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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 Lou-Lou: Intraocular Lens (IOL) question?
I had a congenital cataract in my right eye, and subsequently had the lens removed when they did the cataract surgery. This was 26 years ago, and the optometric world wasn’t what it was like today, and I am now legally blind in my right eye. I have had a number of squint surgeries over the years. My question is, would it be possible to be now fitted with an IOL?

I’m also a Registered Nurse, so please don’t respond with information about the eye that I’m likely to already know.

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Answer by alleyes
The potential problem is that you may have amblyopia in the right eye If so, fitting an IOL will not make any difference.

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Question by Foxide: Question About Having No Lens On The Eye?
I had a detached retina that resulted in three surgeries altogether. During the vitrectomy surgery they also did cataract from the gas bubble that was in my eye. They ended up scraping the lens off my eye. It was all only in my left eye, the right one was fine.

I had insurance then because I was under 21, but now I do not cause I recently had my 21st birthday. All on my own, too so no chance of parents helping in any way shape of form.

I was wondering what kind of artificial lens can be implanted onto the eye? Which one is the best one? And how much do these surgeries cost? I am having a hard time finding out online so I am hoping someone who knows what I am going through could help.

I tried getting contacts at this regular eye place, but they do not seem to work. The prescription is +11.00 and when I put it in everything looks like it is wiggling slightly, really bright, and I can kind of see far away but when I held up the contact box to read some words it was like I had no contact in at all. It was literal just a blue and white mush of colors that I did not even know was words.

To top it off, I asked the lady at the contact place if she knew what she was doing. I explained to her the situation and now after I paid all this money, except I did not buy the left eye contacts since I only had the trial one, she is telling me my eye is too messed up and that I need to go to an Ophthalmologist. Big what the frakin’ frak there since she told me she had done this so many times for people in my shoes. Also, is that right of her?

Aw man, please I need someone who knows. No crap please. The darkness amplies my blindness from my left eye and I am tired of walking into stuff at night when it is not even that dark. Oy. For the record, my right eye is completely fine and updated. Another reason why it would be nice to have someone who can understand literally what I see with no lens on one eye and fine vision in another. It is some weird stuff, let me tell you.

Okay thanks to anyone who really helps. >.< Scary to be without vision, you know?

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Answer by Zyzzyx
Regarding insurance: I was under the impression that the new health care bill (now one year old I think) allows for parents to cover a child up to age 26. Inquire!

Regarding +11 contacts: Maybe this is still not strong enough; but it may also be the limit for contacts. You may need glasses with some small amount of additional magnification.

“Eye is too messed up”: This may be an expression of her limited knowledge. Talk to someone else.

Something to think about: If you had retinal detachment in one eye, is it possible in the other? Find this out, and find out how to keep the right eye healthy!

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