Flashes and floaters after cataracts surgery and blurry vison

Did the doctors say anything about a YAG procedure? It's a laser treatment that is painless and quick that they often due after cataract surgery to correct blurriness. It's done for a second recurring cataract but is very effective.

I think if you went to retina specialist that the specialist would have been able to identify if your issue is related to the retina whether it be a retinal hole, tear, detachment or possibly an epiretinal membrane (macular pucker) or some other retinal problem. Blurriness after a month seems too long and the flashes are concerning. I don't know if there's much you can do other than seeing another cataract surgeon and even another retinal surgeon because I wouldn't think after a month you should still be having these issues at all. The above comment referenced the YAG laser. A fairly common complication after cataract surgery is posterior capsular opacification (pco) where the person vision becomes off/blurry as if they have another cataract. However, while it can occur within weeks or shortly after cataract surgery, it typically happens a few years out if it happens at all. It doesn't seem that's the issue from your description of flashes but I'm not a MD and presumably your surgeons would have been able to indentify that issue if it existed. Hope you find a resolution to the problem and my best wishes.

Thank you for your reply. I think the cataract surgery has been a failure. I agree if it was very well done , i should not have all the issues.

@guerri2024

I am so sorry for your situation and what you must be going through. Perhaps, you'll find another cataract surgeon that can help you. Maybe it's not your eyes per se but a lens issue which I understand can be replaced. I had a friend that wanted lens so she could see distance and would wear reading glasses for reading and near objects. They inserted the exact opposite, corrected for reading but not distance. A few months later she had them replaced for the distant lenses she wanted in the first place.

First let me say that I had a detached retina many years ago before lazer surgery. My symptoms came on when I was driving on a really sunny day. The sun bothered my eyes so much that I had to pull over, and it was like a black shade was being pulled down over my left eye. We went directly to an optometrist. He said for me to get directly to an Eye Surgical Clinic in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He called ahead and they did surgery on my eye the very next morning and since they caught it so soon, I never even had to wear glasses until I bought some cheap 125 at the dollar store, years later, they worked great. Eye floaters are usually not a big thing, and when your brain gets used to them being there, you won't be bothered by them. I did have the floaters before cataract surgery.
Now last December I had cataract surgery in both eyes. That experience was not so good and I found out I was exchanging my up close distance for far away distance. This surgery was a terrible disappointment to me. Wish I could choose again. The doctor did not follow up on my calls about blurry vision, and then an eye bleed. I constantly see ghost images, dry eyes, blurry vision, need glasses all the time, bright light and a magnifying glass! I wish I would have checked around and got a second opinion!

I'm sorry about what you're going through. I has a similar experience after cataract surgery. A little over a month after my first lens replacement I has a flash and pretty significant floaters appear. I had a similar thing happen to the second eye after that lens replacement for a cataract. I developed a film over the first lens and the surgeon lasered it. It helped with the clarity, but the floaters were still pretty bad.

They said that I needed to wait a few months and see if I "got used to the floaters." They were really impacting my vision and after the 3 month wait period I got a referral to a retina specialist. He was amazing. A younger doc who completed his retina training at Vanderbilt Eye Institute. He scheduled me for a vitrectomy in the first eye and I couldn't have been happier. A month or so later I had the 2nd vitrectomy.

With the first eye he inserted a air bubble. It was very strange, but the bubble dissipated by day 5. He never placed a bubble in the second (left) eye. I asked him why that was, and he said because he was able to use smaller trocars and was confident that the eye globe would seal.

I am 3 months out from the second vitrectomy and couldn't be more pleased. My vision is blurry from time to time, but it seems to be related to dry eyes. I have been using a lot of lubricating eye drops.

I think that finding the right retina specialist is key. Have the doctors given you any rationale for why your vision continues to be blurry?

Thankyou very much for your reply. To be honest it was a worse experience in my life. I wish I should not have done that surgery. For the surgeon, he said that it was glaucoma that is causing my vision to be blurry or foggy but i disagreed since i did not have those symptoms before the surgery. Sometimes I feel like both eyes are blurry even though i had surgery for the left eye only and i am scared to do the right eye. Now i am having flashes ... I saw a retina specialist who told me that he had not seen any sign of retina detachment because there is still blood in the eye and he can not see further than that because the blood my cover it and he believed that there was still some blood in the eye that might cause blurriness and i even will see him again in two days for a follow up. I am very confused and don't know what to do . i think that the surgeon just failed a so simple procedure. He did cataract surgery and OMNI glaucoma the same day.

You need to be able to trust who you are seeing, and it sounds like you are in the right hands with the retina Doctor. I had a couple of eye bleeds over the years and went to see the eye doctor. The doctor told me then that they do not worry about eye bleeds unless they are several over a years time. Mine was nothing serious.
Concerning the Cataract Surgeon, I wish I would have looked in to it more. I just chose a clinic close by and the way they move people in and out felt like you were merely a number. With that aside, she did not follow up with my complaints....that was what told me, I chose the wrong doctor. I do hope that the Retina Doctor, who would have much more of an education, will be able to help you and put you at ease. God Bless