Just popping in to say I had the Pred-induced cataract removed from my right eye last week 👁 and it went really well. Brilliant in fact! 🤩
My distance vision is now as good as it was 40+ years ago when I realised I needed reading glasses, which I still will and I can very happily live with that!🤓
Looking forward to being called in for my left eye to be done next, but even though that eye is still foggy my overall distance vision is excellent now - brighter, clearer, sharper and colours more saturated.
I've reduced the size of the text on my screen back from to 'Normal'! 😃
So if anyone is facing this op with trepidation, as I did and I think most do, I can highly recommend it. I appreciate there are risks involved as with any surgery and I wouldn't call it 'a breeze' exactly but it was certainly not a big ordeal and the excellent results are SO worth it.
Love and virtual hugs to you all
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Happy to hear this! I must chase mine up. This is always how I imagined it to be. Good luck with the other eye. Thanks for sharing the encouraging news.Were you aware of there being generic and bespoke cataract operations? I read about this somewhere. Obviously “ bespoke” is private and expensive but geared specifically to your eyesight. Generic would be available on the NHS.
Great!!!I had an eye appointment last week - the only way you can get occular pressures measured here is at the hospital, not done by opticians at all. They were still perfect despite 12+ years of pred, but there is the beginning of a cataract in both eyes - not bad after 12+ years of pred and at heading for 70! She wants to see me in a year to check the cataracts.
We even discussed how to manage vision after - I am very short-sighted and she said they usually don't go for perfect but adjust the strength for general comfort of vision. I used to have contact lenses and we had it set so my left eye did close work and the right, stronger eye, did distance. It meant I had "top-up" glasses for driving although officially it was fine, I just felt happier and I use sunglasses almost all the time when driving here anyway, and I also had computer/reading specs for doing long periods of either. But everyday general tasks were possible without wearing glasses. Such a gift after a lifetime of having specs on my nose from getting out of bed in the morning until going to bed at night! That uses two different single distance lenses so even the NHS can afford it - you don't have to have the all singing all dancing multi-distance lenses!
That's great news. I described my 1st op as better than going to the dentist and could see proper colours even being wheeled back from op theatre. Only downside was a very long wait before other eye done and being very short sighted in one eye and not in the other. The brain was on overload trying to sort it!
I have just had such a laugh! Billy Connelly in his own words - - hilarious!!! Didn't have my favourite BC joke but it was him from the begining to the end - talk about scruffy in a scruffy way but I bet the latter days were expensive designed
Wheeled back?? At our district hospital here in Canada it’s like a conveyor belt - 10 minutes in the actual theatre start to finish. I walked in wearing street clothes and shoes , never gowned, just covered over. Most surprising was the soft rock music playing while a robot voice walked the ophthalmologist through his steps. The next person was going in while I sat in the anteroom for a few minutes then walked outside to wait for my ride home! I did pay extra for the new dual focus long distance lens J&Js Eyehance? It’s almost a month since the second one, long distance is bright and great but I am still trying to get used to having to find glasses for all closer reading and am not getting short to middle distance focus well . Hope my brain sorts it out soon!
The eye clinic bit was spread over a couple of floors with many eye operating theatres on the go. We were carefully marshalled from a to b and lined up on operating type beds in a holding area and wheeled in and out of theatre on the bed! Quite a slick performance and ok for us as patients. Down in lift in wheelchairs to recovery area and issued with our drops, patches and instructions.
Thankyou for sharing that. As I have pred induced cataracts on both eyes, I found that very reassuring and feel less worried about when the time comes for me to consider the procedure.
Thank you for this reassuring post. I am waiting for my appointment to have both my eyes done. My steroid induced cataracts were only identified in April but unusually have developed so rapidly I have made the surgery list already. Whilst nervous about the procedure I cant wait to get my independence back. I have not felt safe or comfortable to drive for months and now no longer meet the legal requirements to do so. I wasted a lot of money on new glasses following my eye test in April. I went to a different place for my glasses and they were sent back 3 times as they weren't right. I now know why but only because I went back to my original optician for another examination requested by my gp..I have GCA so eyesight issues are not to be ignored.
I am so glad I didn't just put up with it and wait for my annual eye check. At £3,500 per eye privately I am on the NHS list and waiting patiently....
Thank you for the positives-I have just been told I have cataracts but they are not bad enough yet to be operated on-interesting to hear that pred might be connected! I am happy for you. Take care x
MAY be - I've been on pred for over 12 years and only the slightest evidence they are there she said - though will check in a year. jinasc had the start of cataracts when her GCA was diagnosed, she immediately switched to reactolite lenses on her optician's advice and 5 years of pred starting at a high dose and another 10+ years - still no cataract problems. People who have never taken pred develop cataracts too - although there is a different form that are only found in patients who have been on pred.
I agree, after 50 years of short-sightedness (bottle end glasses) I had the op on both eyes 10 years ago, well before Pred! I could see almost perfectly straight away. No glasses, just Boots reading ones. No problems ever since, op a bit scary but my surgeon played music for me and told me what he was doing as I'd requested.
I had successful ops on cataracts on both eyes, both pred induced I assume. But then one eye became very blurry, the doc said it was roots from the membrane growing again. I had three minute laser surgery on that eye and now back to pretty good vision in both. It was a walk in the park. So quick, easy and painless. Good old NHS
Good for you. I am scheduled for my right eye on December 14 and really hopeful I will be able to read again without a magnifying glass, see road signs etc.
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