Cataracts?

[AnxiousYogi]

Has anyone here ever been diagnosed with a traumatic cataract? I was recently diagnosed and my anxiety has went through the roof. I have a retina specialist appt next week, and I am just short of have a mental breakdown over my eye. Has anyone dealt with this before and what was your anxiety like while going through this? Sometimes I just wonder why me...

[Mary-intussuception]

No but I had an older friend who had cataracts removed in her late eighties. She no longer had to wear spectacles ! She told me that her eyesight was better than it had ever been since she was 12 years old.

I did wonder why she didn't have them done sooner, maybe she hadn't been diagnosed previously.

[Jeff1943]

The cataract operation is the most common medical procedure carried out today.

It is also one of the safest: 97% are straight forward and the small number that aren't can be corrected by a second procedure.

So the odds are on your side and you have nothing to worry about. Most cataract ops are carried out with local anaesthetic and a big tranquilizer but most hospitals offer the option of a general anaesthetic.

You don't say if only one or both eyes are affected but after the cataracted lens is removed they will replace it with a plastic lens which will give you back the perfect vision you had as a child.

I had a cataract due to trauma removed from one eye 60 years ago and the sight in that eye is noticeably sharper and clearer than the eye which still has the natural lens.

Everything will go well, believe me, there is nothing to fear, you are in expert hands. You have no need to worry at all and you can look forward to perfect vision as the prize for undergoing this procedure.

Absolutely no need to have a nervous breakdown but then anxiety disorder is very good at taking small concerns and worries and magnifying them ten fold.

You'll be fine.

[AnxiousYogi in reply to Jeff1943]

It’s only in one eye. I did a lot of reading up on it and it made me feel better for like 5 minutes. Oh boy anxiety is great. Thank you for the info though. They are definitely going to have to give me something to calm my nerves though.

[Jeff1943 in reply to AnxiousYogi]

Just remember, in a blind world the one-eyed man is king😘