Cataracts Treatment

Question by Victory: Anyone else with artificial lenses have this happen…?
I’m told that my artificial lenses (had cataract surgery in both eyes) reflect light just as cats’ eyes do. I’m very excited about this, partly because I admire cats, but also because I’m sure I can learn to position myself correctly to reflect light at will and scare the beejesus out of snotty young people.

Can anyone else do this?
Monty: My sister says they are a light blue.

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Answer by Suzie s
I have one artificial lens in my right eye, got it as I had a bad infection after a cornea transplant.
I don’t know about being able to reflect light, but there are a few people I would like to scare the beejesus out of.

Ha ha good question.

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Question by justsomeguy: I’m 28 and have had cataracts at birth, and now I have artificial lenses. Can I fix this?
I’ve had 2 eye operations at age 10 to remove my cataract lenses, and recieved huge lens magnified glasses. After 3 years I had another operation for each eye to implant artificial lens apparently made from pigskin. The 2nd operation didn’t go so well and i was hospitalized for a week, after which they continued surgery on my left eye. The surgery in general improved my vision to being able to see without glasses, although not nearly as well as the average person. One eye sees better for close, while the other sees better for far. Therefore i have multifocal glasses nowadays.
My question is: Will i be able to take advantage of modern laser eye surgery with artificial lens?

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Answer by TheDoc
Unfortunately the answer is probably no. The lenses that you are born with are squishy and muscles in your eyes can change their shape so that your eyes can switch from focusing on something far away to something close, or anything in between. Some newer intra-ocular lenses are also squishy, or move back and forth so that you can change where your eyes are focused to some degree, but right now, they’re honestly not great.

The lenses that they implanted into you are each only able to focus at one place and the distance your eyes are focusing can not be changed without glasses, contacts or refractive surgery. Laser eye surgery can be used to permanently change where your eyes are focusing, but you still won’t be able to keep something in focus as it moves closer or farther away from you without your multifocal glasses. You were given monovision, where one eye is made to focus far away and the other is focusing closer. This allows you to have two distances that will be focused well, but an object at any other distance will be blurry. So, for now you are probably stuck with what you have. If you are having problems with distance, you could go see an ophthalmologist to find out if laser surgery could sharpen your distance vision some, but this isn’t going to eliminate your need for multifocal glasses.

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Question by Jen: As we age, the lenses of the eye become less pliable (ability to change shape). This results in:?
a. presbyopia
b. astigmatism
c. glaucoma
d. cataracts

I’m fairly sure it is not glaucoma and cataracts but I cant choose between the other two. Presbyopia is a decrease in near vision which is a normal part of aging. Astigmatism is when the cornea or lens is not uniformly curves so images are not sharply focused.

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Answer by Princess Savage
Presbyopia, however it’s not the ability of the eye to change shape that’s the problem. It’s loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.

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Question by Jennifer: As we age the lenses of the eye become less pliable. This results in what?
As we age the lenses of the eye become less pliable (ability to change shape). This results in:

a. Presbyopia
b. Astigmatism
c. Glaucoma
d. Cataracts

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Answer by chase
d. Cataracts

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Question by AimeeCullen: Can I wear contact lenses with a cataracts?
I was born with a cataracts on my right eye and need to know if it’s safe to wear contact lenses to change my eye colour. My parents won’t let me until I find out if it’s safe.
Can anyone help??

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Answer by sokokl
I wouldn’t recommend it until checking with your eye doctor first to see what they say.

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