Cataracts Treatment

Question by suzie Q: How long can you have cataracts before requiring surgery?
I have just been diagnosed with having cataracts. I am just wondering how long I can go before having to be operated on. So far they are not bothering my vision too much. Optometrist says they are moderate. Does anybody know the answer? Thanks for any information you might have.

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Answer by Footprintz
It varies from person to person.

It depends how fast they decide to develop to the point where it really interferes with your vision.

Could be months, could be a year or two

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Question by joanne g: I have blue cross ins. so how much can I expect to pay for cataract surgery?

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Answer by Cammie
You will have to contact your insurance company.

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Question by Justin: Does laser eye surgery cause or increase the likelihood cataracts?
A friend of mine told me that undergoing laser eye surgery will cause cataracts 20 years after the operation. Is this true?

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Answer by Footprintz
No, not true at all.

One has nothing to do with the other.

Laser surgery is on the outer layers of the cornea, and cataracts are inside the eye on the lens of the eye, which isn’t touched by the laser.

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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 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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