Backing up on this, my eye doctor didn't actually RECOMMEND cataract surgery. He refused to do that. He refused to state his position on whether or not I should have it done. He only said that I do have cataracts and that cataract surgery "might" help my night driving. However, the fact is that he himself has the same issue as me and hasn't had cataract surgery. That tells me a lot. So I'm skeptical. Something isn't adding up here for me. There are too many negative outcomes; there's my own doctor saying he has the same issue as me with headlights but he himself didn't have surgery; there's his reticence to recommend it; and there are too many adverse complications of the surgery that I'm reading about.

I think it's odd that an eye doctor doesn't recommend surgery with gusto if that is the real solution here. Maybe because he KNOWS it's an iffy outcome? For me, I'm not willing to live with "iffy". There has to be a guarantee and there has to be no adverse effect on my close vision. Based on all of this, I'm not willing to take the risk.