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After Cateract Surgery both eyes

Eye Conditions | Last Active: Nov 11 12:33pm | Replies (26)
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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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jhs1950 | @jhs1950 | Nov 10 9:46am

You have worked incredibly hard on your LAL journey. I wish I had your knowledge! You also had a surgeon that really worked with you through adjustments. I don't think you are locked in yet? Thank you for sharing.

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bighead | @bighead | Nov 10 11:01am

I went with astigmatism lenses for the surgeries. Not sure if they contribute to the lighting bolt streaks of light. My conflict is that my daylight and indoor focus is so fantastic and the glare is only a night driving issue i am being cautious not to lose any of my super focus . The night driving glare is substantial and now that I learned modern headlights are considered by many to be way too bright it just makes night driving a challenge. So at my next appt I will be asking about if any glasses that advertise themselves to be anti night driving glare lenses... if they actually exist. The pair I bought from Amazon are worthless and just turn the white headlight glare from a super bright white to a just we bad glaring yellow. My doc wants to hold off on YAG to see if time deals with the wrinkles in the capsule.

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