Cataracts Treatment

Question by Honey: Do I need to have an eyesight of 6/6 to work on a cruise ship in a customer service role?
I have been offered a training opportunity on a cruise ship. However I got my left eye injured when I was 11. My left eye was operated upon for stitches and for the eye lens. I had to go undergo cataract surgery as well later on. Since then my eye is as good as normal. Just that I wear glasses. My right eye is 6/6 after glasses but not the left eye. The vision is good but still not 6/6. Am I medically fit for working on a cruise ship or any other similar job?

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Answer by Spiral
umm i think yur ok as long as yu got glasses to at least do enough for your right…. how bad is the left???
if ur in canada go to great glasses they fix everything lol

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Question by Guy: Retinal detachment surgery recovery, long but need answers?
I’m 19, I just had a vitrectomy, scleral buckle,and an air bubble all in one surgery last monday around 2:30 PM. I went back for a check up yesterday at 8:20 AM and the doc said my airbubble was only 30% there so whatever im doing is working. i had to keep my head down the whole time and i couldnt lay on my back or a cataract would form, but he said i didnt have to keep my head down during the day from now on, and he said the bubble should be gone by friday(thats my next checkup) before the surgery he told me that recovery time should only be like 1-2 weeks, but im reading online that people are saying 3 months minimum, my eye barely hurts anymore buts its still swollen, the swelling has greatly improved since yesterday, is it because im so much younger than the usual crowd of people that get this surgery that my time is so much shorter?

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Answer by Indiana Jones
3 months for recovery?
idk about that. i know that it takes 3 months of your eye being stable to really be out of the woods as far as it redetaching.

how long the gas bubble lasts depends on what type of gas they use.
i had a gas bubble that lasted about 12 days and then i had one that lasted for 21 days.

did you have to wear that green “warning gas bubble in eye” wrist bands? its like a disclaimer. i kept mine cuz it was funny to me.
didn’t you find keeping your head face down was very hard? when i went to sleep i was basically smothering myself.
at one point i put my mattress on the floor and kept a space for my face to hang off the end and then put pillows for my forehead to lay on.
my neck/back hurt soooo bad from having to keep my head down.

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Question by Sabrina: I need help on an Eye Disorders question.?
I look up definitions for these and I cant find simple ones. Help, please?

-Sutural cataract
-Lamellar Cataract
-Zonular cataract
-Secondary Cataract

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Answer by yagman
The first three are primary congenital cataracts.

Sutural cataract

As the lens is being formed as a fetus the collagen fibers of the lens come together along a y shaped “suture”. This is a congenital cloudiness associated with a problem in the closure of this suture.

http://dro.hs.columbia.edu/antsutural.htm

Lamellar cataract

The collagen fibrils of the lens are laid down in sheets (or lamellae). A lamellar cataract is an opacification confined to one of these lamellar sheets of collagen.

http://www.eyeweb.org/cataract.htm

Zonular cataract

Another congenital type cataract with a characteristic radiating pattern (looks like spokes on a wheel)

http://www.opt.indiana.edu/NewHorizons/Zonular.html

Secondary cataract

This is not a primary cataract but rather occurs in the great majority of patients who have had cataract surgery. At some time following surgery, the posterior capsule of the lens (it was left intact during surgery) begins to opacify and block light much like the original cataract did. The most common treatment for this is the use of a Yag laser to create a clear opening in the capsule thereby allowing light to pass through unaffected.

http://www.steen-hall.com/seccat.html

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Question by manuel: does a detached retina need immidiat attention ?
after cataract surgery my for my left eye retina detached i could not see a thing i was scheduled for surgery six weeks later to reattach it unsuccessfully i now was sent to a specialist and finally it was reattached i still cant see due to glaucoma my question is had i gotten immediate attention would i still be able to see

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Answer by Indiana Jones
well i cannot say for sure but you definitely would have had a much better chance of recovering at least some of your vision had they not waited 6 WEEKS to fix it.
i’ve had 4 retinal detachments (twice in each eye) and each time they diagnosed it i was in the operating room a few days later. for example in 2008 i went to my retinal specialist on a friday afternoon and i was in surgery on monday morning. i recovered all of my vision in that eye that time. and then it detached again 6 weeks later so i saw the dr on a tuesday and was in surgery on thursday. i recovered most of my vision that time. my eyes have been stable since then.

if you think someone is at fault for not getting you into surgery sooner than 6 weeks after the fact then i’d look into seeing a lawyer cuz sounds to me like there could have been malpractice.

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Question by suzynjl: need price on acuvail for 2 boxes?
acuvail eye frops foe eyes after cataract surgery

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Answer by Thomas
You can easily check your minimal health care rates in internet, for example here – healthquotes.awardspace.info

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