Cataracts Treatment

Question by lostlilshedevil: How do I report someone who shouldn’t be driving?
There is someone I know that cheated to pass the eye test to get their driver’s license renewed. He is legally blind and has cataracts. Cataracts surgery didn’t help as it just grew back and he doesn’t have the money for another surgery. He had the eye doctor dilate his eyes so that he could see around the cataracts and pass the eye test at the DMV. He has caused multiple accidents, almost hit several people, etc. Talking to him about it doesn’t do any good. I want to protect people…I mean..he could kill someone. We try to drive him around as much as we can…but we can’t be there 24/7 and he still insists on driving. Can I file a complaint somewhere? What do I do?
Because he doesn’t always report it. He has paid people off not to report it. Plus, he has hit other things besides cars…like a bear once and a huge rock another time.

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Answer by Brad
Why dont you phone your local police and DMV. They will retest him probably.

I dont understand, if he’s been in multiple accidents how has he not lost his license?

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Question by SuzieQ92: I am hoping someone who has experienced this will answer. We have a 73 year old relative in another state?
who is experiencing double vision. She had a stroke in one eye many years ago, so she doesn’t see well out of that eye at all. She has been having double vision in her one good eye for over a month now. She has been to the eye doctor a couple of times, and he took her off of all medication that could cause double vision. The condition hasn’t improved.

The weird part is that she doesn’t see double in everything, but only words. When she tries to read street signs or books or words on television, she sees them double.

About 6 weeks ago, she had cataract surgery on her bad eye. Could cataract surgery adversely affected her good eye?

The doctor has ruled out any structural problems with the eye, so what could the other possibilities be that only words are seen double?

Thank you for any help you can give!
I tried to get in touch with RM, but he/she doesn’t allow e-mail. She has monocular double vision. The double vision is still there no matter which eye is covered.

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Answer by RM
1. She almost certainly has binocular double vision, meaning if you cover one eye the double vision goes away. This is by far the most common type and is caused by misalignment of the eyes (for a lot of possible reasons). If for some reason she has monocular double vision then it is usually a problem in the eye itself.

2. My guess is that she has double vision for everything (meaning the misalignment of the eyes is always there) but she only notices it when reading due to the extra fidelity needed and some irritating overlap of letters.

There’s long list of possibilities to explain the misalignment. I’d start with her ophthalmologist because there’s a good chance its related to the cataract surgery (lens replacement not at the perfect angle?). If he doesn’t know then you should ideally go to a neuroophthalmologist to help sort it out.

Edit: Monocular double vision that is present in both eyes is extremely rare but not impossible (esp. since there is a possible stroke history). I have to say that its so rare that I have some doubt that its really present but if it is then it would be due to a problem in the occipital lobes of the brain. HOWEVER, if it really is monocular double vision then I suspect it is only in one of her eyes with the eye that had the cataract surgery being most likely (a problem in that lens). Get her eye doctor to check it. If she really has bilateral monocular double vision you should have her see a Neurologist also….or, better yet, a Neuroophthalmologist if there is one in your area.

Edit 2: When you get some answers please consider coming back to leave a comment with the final diagnosis.

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Question by Karen: Would someone explain cataracts to me?
My dog has them in both eyes and I’m confused about what they actually ARE.

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Answer by Donna G
I have a cataract growing on one of my eyes. It’s like a cloudy film growing over the lens. An easy operation when it is ripe can replace the cloudy lens with a clear new plastic one.

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Question by afan1: can someone tell me whats wrong with my dogs eye!!! please?
my dog has a cloudy spot on her eye and i think its either glaucoma, a cataract or collie eye anomaly which is common in her breed. please tell me what you think may be happening or if you know any good sites where i can ask a vet online for free

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Answer by dmg1969
Why not take the dog to the vet? Any online “vet” cannot diagnose a dog they cannot see.

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Question by Zelda Hunter: Have you ever met someone who naturally had one blue eye and one brown one?
No contacts, blindness, eye damage or cataracts. My biology teacher in high school had this, and it was months before I realized it. I was curious about how rare this is.

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Answer by vanessaannehudgens
no

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