General questions re. cataracts

Now the hospital says as long as I use their van to get to the surgery and come home from the surgery, it is Ok to have someone meet me at home instead of having to go with me to surgery. I am now on for surgery tomorrow. Thank you all so much for your help.

Johnns glad to hear this yea, we all need to be our own advocate

Hi,
I have had cataract surgery on both eyes. The symptoms were the halo's at night also. I had the left eye done first. When tested, I used one eye for distance and one eye for close up work and was told this was unusual. Never needed reading glasses but needed them for distance vision. Had the one eye done with regular close up lens used, not any fancy laser or special lens, and medicare paid for it all. About 2 years later, the other also need cataract surgery so had the lens for distance put in. No problems adjusting and almost don't need glasses and can now see better than before for both close up and distance so no reading glasses needed. Medicare covered everything.
Wife had surgery using laser two months ago and nothing but trouble. She had distance lens put in and paid $1200 out of pocket since was told it wouldn't damage her tear ducts as much since she only had 4 of them working. The eye now has black spots in the center of field of vision and eye socket feels constricted as if has a telescope on the eye socket so that part of the vision is obstructed. Retina specialist said had hemoragging and will take time to dissolve but surgery was success??? She had the other eye done about 6 weeks later also with a distance lens put in and that didn't have any issues with laser and $1200 extra charge. Now she has dry eyes and needs drops every day which she wanted to avoid. So much for that advice not working out. We did not have the same doctors since one is in WI and one in Maryland. Still wondering if that was good advice given to her?

I am not sure of the bleeding as a reason as I was told by my doctor that there are no blood vessels in the area of the eye operated on. That is why I did not have to stop my low-dose aspirin for the surgery. However macular degeneration does cause bleeding in the white part if the eye so the bleeding may not be due to the surgery. Macular degeneration does cause blind spots.

To update you finally, I did get the van and I did have the surgery. It was successful. Moral of the story is to be persistent and do your own research. Thank you all again for all your help and support.

I am interested in this, I didn’t know that laser surgery is available for cataracts I thought the lens had to be physically removed.

The cataract is broken up and then removed by suction. Each doctor has their own way so you would need to ask if the surgeon does laser surgery

Most eye clinics have a video showing how laser surgery is done. Ask to see it.

Considering dropless laser cataract surgery; has anyone experienced this? Three times a day drops for a month will be problematic for me
to accomplish successfully.

If the problem is forgetting there are apps for smartphones that will alarm you when it is time to take your eye drops. I had to do four times a day and the app worked well for me.