Cataracts Treatment

Question by Sadf A: Please help, so much stress and depression, just cant take it anymore!?
I am a 20 year old college student and male. These past few years I have been through so much its not even funny. I am about to give up I need some help please!!! A few years ago my dad passed away. Then when I started college I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. A year later my vision went down hill and at age 19 I had cataract surgeries and vitrectomies to fix my vision, however one of my pupils is still dilated months later . I have been through so much I just can’t take it anymore. The stress has caused me a terrible TERRIBLE HORRIBLE HABIT, to rip my eyebrows out. Please don’t laugh at me that is already what my mom did when I told her. I used to be told I was good looking but now I have to wear glasses all the time do to my eye surgeries and now I have patches all throughout my eyebrows. I am embarassed to talk to anyone face to face. I have tried letting them grow back, but when they do the new hairs grow all weird, pointing outward instead of lying flat against my skin. They will not grow back the same for some reason. I am so depressed because of this. Along with being ashamed of how I look, diabetes is not making this any easier. My life is a living hell. I hate waking up in the morning. I have to fill in my eyebrows in the morning like a girl. I am so humiliated and sad. The only thing positive that has happened to me these past few years is that I got a full scholarship. That is the only thing keeping me going right now, the fact that someone is paying for my education. I am so sad right now I cry almost every day I hate life! Help me please! I have told my mom but she just tells me to man up. I feel physically and mentally scarred from what has happened to me and just dont know if I can recover!

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Answer by goofie
im really sorry that you are feeling this way. i can relate ive been depressed for a while to. but i get through it by talking to other people and my dr gave me anxiety meds that really help. theyll keep you from wanting to screw up ur eyebrows. but u can email me any time if u wanna talk.

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Question by I Love S.O.V.S: If you are a vet please answer if not you may still answer i was wondering how much this would be?
How much would it be to have cataract surgery.my dog whole eye is bluen.h has been hit by a car so he can not see out of that eye and he is about eight years old in human years them are all three signs of cataract So i was wandering how much it would be to have the cataract removed

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Answer by Lola
Ok, first of all the cataract did not come from being hit by a car. I hope you took him to the vets when that happened. What are the signs of a cataract? It has nothing to do with being hit by a car, or age. Actually, I think in dogs the pupil (black part of the eye) will be gray or bluish in color. The surgery cost will depend on the vet and how much he charges. You should call around to your local vets and find out how much they charge. You may have to take him to a specialist for that surgery possibly at a veterinary college. Also, make sure the price they give you is the total cost of the surgery and not just the surgery alone with everything else added on to it like room and board, anesthesia, food, medications etc.

I had a vet screw me like that once. He told me the surgery for my cat would be $ 100. Well when I went to pick up the cat they handed me a bill for almost $ 400! Yes, the surgery was only $ 100, but it didn’t include everything else like food, medications etc. Needless to say, I never went back, even though I had been going there since they opened up for business. In fact, he screwed so many customers that he almost went out of business.

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Question by debrasue312: how much would it cost to remove cataracts from a Maltese dog?
my 10 year old dog can no longer see…with a white cloud over both eyes

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Answer by N1N4
i have a bichon frise, and it was about 1600 per eye.

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Question by Yaz: How much is it to do cataracts in both eyes in France?
A rough estimate please

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Answer by dr cinoque
3000euros

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Question by Indiana Jones: maybe i’m reading too much into this nd-YAG procedure but….?
i’ve been researching it cuz i’m going to have it soon and the more i read about it the more nervous i become.

i read that it is usually done several months or even a few years after the cataract surgery and yet i just had my surgery on may 18th and i’m going to have the procedure within 2 weeks from now.
so that is a little worry some

and i’ve read that 1 out of every 50 people will get a detached retina due to the procedure and that scares the hell out of me cuz i am at a much higher risk for it than most people and i’ve already had a detached retina twice in that eye.

am i overly worried or should i opt not to do the procedure even though the cells are already forming on the lens?

i’m going to my retina specialist tomorrow just to make sure my retina still looks fine after the cataract surgery so i willdefinitelyy be asking him what he thinks about the nd-YAG procedure but i’d still like opinions on here.

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Answer by yagman
The internet is a wonderful thing. Anyone can say anything about anything and the world will accept it as truth. nd-Yag capsulotomy surgery is among the least risk prone ocular surgeries there is. I don’t know where you found the 1 out of 50 statistic but it simply is not true. I’ve been performing this surgery since 1995 and I have yet to have a single patient develop a post surgical retinal detachment. Is the procedure risk free? No surgical procedure is risk free. But I assure you this is not one you need to stay awake over at night.

And as to your concern about how rapidly you developed capsular clouding, this is also nothing to worry about. It is true that the MAJORITY of patients develop cloudiness months or years after cataract surgery. So, that just means you aren’t average. Somebody has to be not average. It just happens to be you. I can’t explain it but some people just simply cloud faster than others. It just happens. I tend to see more rapid clouding in younger patients or those with quite severe cataracts. But this issue really isn’t an issue.

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