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After Cateract Surgery both eyes

Eye Conditions | Last Active: Nov 11 12:33pm | Replies (26)
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@1995victoria

If you are a high myope and if you have macular puckers be very selective on the surgeon you choose for cataract surgery. I had my left eye done, and surgeon put in what he thought should be lens, but I can no longer read close up. Luckily I didn't have my right eye done, so I can read close with my right eye.....get a few opinions before you get cataract removed.

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mayoconnectuser1 | @mayoconnectuser1 | Nov 10 9:35am

If you have a standard monofocal IOL implanted, it will not provide distance AND close vision. Multifocal IOLs will do this, but most have some vision quality issues as they split the light going to your retina - there are lots of these on the market. The Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) does not provide true multifocal capability, but due to the design does provide some Extended Depth of Focus (EDOF), and, most importantly, LALs can be adjusted to various prescription AFTER implantation.

My LALs have been pretty incredible - dominate eye is a bit better than 20/15 distance, and with about -1.50 script, my near vision is J1+ with an astounding 20/25 distance, sometimes bordering on 20/20. Combined distance is a bit better than 20/15.

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