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With eye glass prescriptions you can easily just change the prescription and / or lens styles (single, bifocal, progressive etc), but with cataract surgery your committing to a lens change to your eyes which you cannot try and test in advance before you decide which to choose. Also your eyes may change as you age. In my opinion the risk of a sophisticated lens not working for you is too high and as some observers have commented, the basic simple no cost lens used most commonly in cataract surgery may be the safest option that can later be complemented with eye glasses.
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Yep - I hear ya!
Except - at the time of cataracts most folks' eyes have changed almost as much as they are going to - I look at this as the last chance for the best vision possible ((to me this is vision from close up to far out - without glasses) - the same way I did when I had PRK in 2007. I want and am willing to pay for the best vision possible. And, LAL is not really sophisticated, as much as it is a monofocal IOL that can be modified after implantation.
I have read a LOT on this topic, but still don't fully grasp the physics - the scariest IOLs are the ones that promise EDOF, but also have significant likelihood of dysphotopsias which impact nighttime driving, in particular.
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yes, I've been wearing glasses since I was 9 yo.....so I don't mind glasses