New eye lens

Actually tonight things are improving a lot. I can sit at the computer and read text from about 40" away, which is a bonus. It's been hard to do that unless I get real close before. And the eyes don't feel so tired, maybe they're finally clearing up. I was sitting outside watching the border terriers today and I saw a squirrel fall off a tree about 400 feet away down by our stream and run away with another one. Then since it's coming winter here, I saw some poplar seeds fall off the tree about 200' away, never seen that before. I can actually see the bark on trees from a long way away now. It seems that long distance is easier on the eyes than the computer, but maybe it will straighten out. I can read the cell phone fine, but reading the New Yorker is a bit hard after a while, but now I have no glasses to correct anything. I can only imagine things will improve, if you get my drift.
Things are clearly getting better. Hang in there!!!!!!!!
 
What else can I do, I'm certainly not getting my old eyes back. It's still coming and going. My wife said her operation maybe 20 years ago only took a few days to heal, but she was a lot younger then. This is over a month now, I sort of doubt if it will all straighten out for a couple months, but it can be aggravating.
 
Today I got up to go see the eye doc and boy are things getting better. Everything is so sharp, from 10" in front of my face to out there. He told me to take the drops another 10 days and quit, them see him back in Jan. There's still a bit of smearyness in the left eye, but am sure it will go away. When I was reading the eye chart, with both eyes I could read the bottom line just fine. Not so with each eye. It's pretty incredible, but the eyes still get tired by the end of the day, seem to be improving though. Sometimes things are just so sharp they look fake. I had astigmatism all my life and I guess now it's gone. But my eyes were not that bad, I could pass the drivers test and only wore glasses since my 50's when I went far sighted (presbyopia) and couldn't read close up.
 
Today I got up to go see the eye doc and boy are things getting better. Everything is so sharp, from 10" in front of my face to out there. He told me to take the drops another 10 days and quit, them see him back in Jan. There's still a bit of smearyness in the left eye, but am sure it will go away. When I was reading the eye chart, with both eyes I could read the bottom line just fine. Not so with each eye. It's pretty incredible, but the eyes still get tired by the end of the day, seem to be improving though. Sometimes things are just so sharp they look fake. I had astigmatism all my life and I guess now it's gone. But my eyes were not that bad, I could pass the drivers test and only wore glasses since my 50's when I went far sighted (presbyopia) and couldn't read close up.
DAMN GOOD NEWS!!!!! Super glad to hear that! I hope it is ALL uphill from here! HAHAHAHA I just happened to look at Access Norton!
 
Today I got up to go see the eye doc and boy are things getting better. Everything is so sharp, from 10" in front of my face to out there. He told me to take the drops another 10 days and quit, them see him back in Jan. There's still a bit of smearyness in the left eye, but am sure it will go away. When I was reading the eye chart, with both eyes I could read the bottom line just fine. Not so with each eye. It's pretty incredible, but the eyes still get tired by the end of the day, seem to be improving though. Sometimes things are just so sharp they look fake. I had astigmatism all my life and I guess now it's gone. But my eyes were not that bad, I could pass the drivers test and only wore glasses since my 50's when I went far sighted (presbyopia) and couldn't read close up.
And yes there correct that astigmatism. How awesome is THAT! Your eyes will be no worries the rest of your life for vision anyways.
 
The amazing thing is to read the small menus on the computer from about 45" away. No problemo, and it keeps getting better. I think the presbyopia was more of a problem than the astigmatism, but getting rid of the astigmatism is a real plus. When things really clear up, I'll have to go out in the clear winter sky and see what the stars look like instead of oblong blurs. Now if I could see the Southern Cross.
 
Closing in in 2 months now since the first eye. It's finally starting to straighten out for most of the day and things are clear for the most part anywhere I want to look, from the cell phone to the horizon. Stopped putting drops in the eyes. I can read the numbers on the cordless phone from across the room. There's still some smearyness when looking at high contrast things. Headlights even in the daylight have strange 'rings' around them. But all in all, I don't need glasses at all and I'd say I have at least 20/20 vision. They're still 77 year old eyes though and get tired. I can only see improvement coming, but if they could just give me new nerves in my back, arms and legs..... and maybe a new brain while they're at it too. Plus the toilet paper has never looked so white and the sky so blue.
 
I am done with the drops tomorrow. 20/15 both eyes, 20/20 each. One of my employees told me told it is odd not to see me with glasses anymore (readers) or sitting up front for presentations at work. I can sit at the back of the room and read the screen now, see the computer with no magnification and read papers with no readers. It is really amazing.

Grand to hear you are doing OK. Science is amazing, the progress over the years is incredible....
 
I had the first one done (right eye) in 2003 as a result of an old injury. I had lost all depth perception, a dangerous thing in the building trades. My left eye developed a cataract of it's own since then and last year I had the left eye done. Implant lenses are nearly identical and everything but reading small print or in low light is accomplished without cheaters. The doctor who did the recent one left a small piece of coagulated vitreous humor that bugs the piss out of me, looking like a shadow of a windshield wiper moving the opposite direction of the eye. He said at some point, my brain would learn to ignore it, which I do most of the time, but when it swipes across the field of vision, it's still bothersome.
 
I had the first one done (right eye) in 2003 as a result of an old injury. I had lost all depth perception, a dangerous thing in the building trades. My left eye developed a cataract of it's own since then and last year I had the left eye done. Implant lenses are nearly identical and everything but reading small print or in low light is accomplished without cheaters. The doctor who did the recent one left a small piece of coagulated vitreous humor that bugs the piss out of me, looking like a shadow of a windshield wiper moving the opposite direction of the eye. He said at some point, my brain would learn to ignore it, which I do most of the time, but when it swipes across the field of vision, it's still bothersome.
Funny you mention that, I work with a fellow that had an eye injury as a young man raking leaves and had the one eye lens replaced. I think he wore glasses, and now uses a contact lens in the other eye. He has no sign of cataract in the other eye, but he is in his late 40's.

Sorry to hear about the one eye not being better. I went to 3 seperate eye dr's the past few years before I settled on the one I had do it because I was worried about just that, this is kind of a one shot deal. However, it is a very routine thing now, but things still happen. Hope you find to improves to the point you never notice it.
 
Years ago my wife got a huge dark floater in her right eye. She was a pro photograpeher for a newspaper and she got a doc to replace the vitreous fluid in that eye under medicare. It got rid of the floater. I actually think she had both eyes done. In my right eye I have a cloudy floater right where I look. It unfocuses things, but I try to get by ignoring it. Current eye doc says it may be treatable with laser, depending on where in the fluid it is. But If I'm going to do that I certainly will get a second opinion from the doc my wife went to.

Yeah, I was a bit concerned about focusing on the monitor. I sit 40-45" away from it, not like lots of people right up at reading distance. It's taken a while but now things are sharper than ever, but I still have to use the tears to wash them out once in a while. I notice distance viewing is always good, looking at the monitor too much is tiring, as is reading.

But I noticed last night looking at the NOAA hourly WX on the phone, I could read the numbers on the graphs, and boy are they tiny numbers.
 
Funny you mention that, I work with a fellow that had an eye injury as a young man raking leaves and had the one eye lens replaced. I think he wore glasses, and now uses a contact lens in the other eye. He has no sign of cataract in the other eye, but he is in his late 40's.

Sorry to hear about the one eye not being better. I went to 3 seperate eye dr's the past few years before I settled on the one I had do it because I was worried about just that, this is kind of a one shot deal. However, it is a very routine thing now, but things still happen. Hope you find to improves to the point you never notice it.
Thanks, I'm getting accustomed to it, but it still annoys me.
 
Yeah, my floater can really annoy me sometimes too. I don't even notice it outside. It mostly distorts the reading.

Things still getting better, the double bright lights are beginning to disappear. It's actually sort of stunning especially coming in from outside and looking around the house. Every frigging thing is in focus.
 
I still have some small halos and moonbeams in the most-recently replaced eye, but they are diminishing over time. I certainly can't complain about my vision. All I need are reader cheaters.
 
Years ago my wife got a huge dark floater in her right eye. She was a pro photograpeher for a newspaper and she got a doc to replace the vitreous fluid in that eye under medicare. It got rid of the floater. I actually think she had both eyes done. In my right eye I have a cloudy floater right where I look. It unfocuses things, but I try to get by ignoring it. Current eye doc says it may be treatable with laser, depending on where in the fluid it is. But If I'm going to do that I certainly will get a second opinion from the doc my wife went to.

Yeah, I was a bit concerned about focusing on the monitor. I sit 40-45" away from it, not like lots of people right up at reading distance. It's taken a while but now things are sharper than ever, but I still have to use the tears to wash them out once in a while. I notice distance viewing is always good, looking at the monitor too much is tiring, as is reading.

But I noticed last night looking at the NOAA hourly WX on the phone, I could read the numbers on the graphs, and boy are they tiny numbers.
Vitrectomy (replacement of the vitreous humor with a saline solution) is considered risky and only performed when there are no other alternatives to saving the eye's function. A buddy just had it done after getting surgery for a partially detached retina that left clouds he couldn't see through.
 
Well, I'll tell you. It's been since October 5 and it's now Jan 20th. For the most part I can see fine except for that damned floater, but my eyes water all the time, they get tired in the evenings and I have to keep putting eye lube in them to keep at least the right eye with the floater from feeling like it's got sand in it. I've found I have to read mags and the computer with the right eye covered or it just gets too tiresome. So yes, I ca see better, but being bothered by my eyes all evening is getting somewhat tiresome. I hope it eventually clears up. The surgeon is not real responsive with questions. I may seek out other help. The guy is a 45 minute drive anyhow and the help seems a bit sullen. They're in Winchester, VA.

If I go outside or drive it seems great. Watching TV from about 12' is kinda OK. It may just be that my eyes are 77 years old. sorry to whine.
 
They working good enough to get the stink bugs ! So that a good thing !
 
With an older person, eye surgeons consider their work a success if the patient is still able to safely drive a car after healing.
 
Well, I'll tell you. It's been since October 5 and it's now Jan 20th. For the most part I can see fine except for that damned floater, but my eyes water all the time, they get tired in the evenings and I have to keep putting eye lube in them to keep at least the right eye with the floater from feeling like it's got sand in it. I've found I have to read mags and the computer with the right eye covered or it just gets too tiresome. So yes, I ca see better, but being bothered by my eyes all evening is getting somewhat tiresome. I hope it eventually clears up. The surgeon is not real responsive with questions. I may seek out other help. The guy is a 45 minute drive anyhow and the help seems a bit sullen. They're in Winchester, VA.

If I go outside or drive it seems great. Watching TV from about 12' is kinda OK. It may just be that my eyes are 77 years old. sorry to whine.
My eye surgeon simply told me that I'd have to learn to live with the floaters. Everyone gets them and attempts to remedy them is very expensive
and not often successful. Old peoples' eyes don't lube well. To compensate they water a lot. I too find myself at times squinting one eye shut
while reading. It comes and goes. Still, the implants are way better than the cataracts or blindness. There is no magic pill to fix all the problems
of old age. Then you die.
 
Yep, getting old is not for sissies. And your outlook of "could be better, but could be worse" is right on. On that reasoning, the worse is a lot worse ... being blind would not be an easy row to hoe. Best wishes for continued improvements.
 
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