Dont forget, at your age 22 you likley have a fair amount of
accomodation that will be all gone after cateract surgury. Theres
accomodating IOLs but they give very little accomodation at best, often
none and vision isnt as good vs. regular IOLs. You are guaranteed to
still need glasses after cateract surgury, bifocals or progressives are
likley if you end plano or worse, overcorrected. Getting undercorrected
is much more forgiving but your vision wont be clear except at that
point. If you end up -1.5 youll only see perfect at 26 inches. If you
had very bad vision like +6 or -6 or worse, thered be alot more reason
but at -3.5 your not that handicapped.


"The optometrist said that if I do Cataract surgery, I will end up
using
about -1.5 for the computer and also reading glasses which is the plus
lenses. What did he mean?"


Basically youll still need glasses.


"I talked last night to my sister husband who is an eye surgeon in
europe and he told me that the Cataract surgery is very simple.. he
does 10 of them a day"


Simple but not risk free. Lasik is also simple but still has risks.


"he said some patients who do not have Cataract
even come to him with execuses just to try to convince him to do the
Cataract surgery because it is safer and better.. maybe trying to relax

me."


Thats quite common and its called clear lens extraction. Usually done
by people over 40 and especially over 50 instead of lasik because they
get the big benefit of never having to worry about cateract surgury.
Why get lasik when you can kill two birds with one stone and get IOLs?
I feel sorry for all those old people(some of which I know) who got
lasik only to be diagnosied with cateracts months or years later. One
guy who was -9.5 ruined his eyes with lasik then this 46 year old was
found to have cateracts 17 months after lasik. He says he would have
gotten clear lens extraction in the first place if he had known about
it and was told about it and the reasons why!


"Maybe now there is no point to do
natural improvements of myopia coz the Cataract surgery is going to
give me perfect vision as my sister husband said"



Well its up to you. If you plan on getting cateract surgury soon then
dont bother with vision improvement. But if you want to put off
cateract surgury as long as possible, might want to improve your vision
in the meantime. You will NOT get perfect vision after cateract
surgury, you will lose all accomodation. If you choose distance, better
hope you dont get overcorrected! Youll see blurry at 2 meters or
less(if plano) and may need a few pairs of reading glasses or a pair of
progressives to see clearly at all distances. If you choose near, you
will be much less dependant on glasses but will need weak readers for
reading fine print and weak distance glasses for driving or watching
movies.

acemanvx[at]yahoo.com wrote:
You can have your vision set for distance(not reccomended
- quote -


Thanks. Could you explain more about that ^^ part because I dont
understand what you exactly mean.

The optometrist said that if I do Cataract surgery, I will end up using
about -1.5 for the computer and also reading glasses which is the plus
lenses. What did he mean?

I talked last night to my sister husband who is an eye surgeon in
europe and he told me that the Cataract surgery is very simple.. he
does 10 of them a day.. he said some patients who do not have Cataract
even come to him with execuses just to try to convince him to do the
Cataract surgery because it is safer and better.. maybe trying to relax
me.. but its already screwed.. Maybe now there is no point to do
natural improvements of myopia coz the Cataract surgery is going to
give me perfect vision as my sister husband said, and i will become
only farsighted.. Or I should continue with them because im not going
to go thru surgery in the near future?..

Ben

Hey, Ace?

Is that "135" figure you quoted some sort of Metric equivalent to a
much lower, but standardized, Stanford-Binet figure that you're not
sharing??

Just curious....

"The optometrist checked my eyes for 2 minutes and
said with confidence that I have something called Cataract, which is
common with aging people but I got Juvnile Cataract. He explained its a

problem with the internal lenses, and It can be corrected by a surgery.

He suggested not to rush into surgery and when I go home to my country
in two years, I should seek another diagnosis in a hospital."


ouch! at your age of 22 that sure sucks! Dont rush into surgury as long
as you have good correctable vision. Maybe your cateract wont get worse
for another 10 years. Usually, people dont have cateract surgury till
their correctable vision drops below the 20/40 which is needed to drive
legally. You will never be a lasik candidate, in fact dont ever think
about it. Reputable surgeons wont do lasik on someone with cateracts
because cateract surgury is the real fix, lasik wont do anything to
cateracts. You can have your vision set for distance(not reccomended
for someone who spends lots of time on computer) or adjusted for near
like -1.5 then this will keep you out of reading glasses much of the
time. Itll also make overcorrection much less likley.


"He gave me a prescription of -2.5 to make my near work easier coz I
get headaches with -3.5 when I work on the computer. And It doesnt fix
the whole problem but just to ease things."


This is what I suggested to you to tell your optometrist. You took the
advice. Your eyes will thank you! In fact, wear the -2.5 glasses around
the house too. Only wear -3.5 when you go out. I undercorrect myself
most of the time and my eyes thank me and improve!


"He also suggested that I should think carefully about considering my
career in the future, coz IT is not the best choice with my vision.


Im devastated."


If you can tolerate being on the computer 8 hours, I dont see why not?


"Most juvenile cataracts never get worse. If they do, cataract surgery
is a
simple cure.


I don't see why it should interfere with your career in IT, and I think
that
optometrist caused you unnecessary worry."


He will need to have his eyes set for near at around -1.5 to see the
computer clearly.

I made a search about Cataract. umm I think it is related to me taking
finasteride for the last 3 years. I have been taking it as treatment
for my hairloss, It worked great. All side effects that I was warned of
are sexually related such as: decreased semen, decreased ejaculation
etc. I did not have any of them though. Finasteride was approved by FDA
more than 10 years ago and they never warned about its effects for
vision. I searched on the net for other people who had this and I could
find only one, in the following link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

If anybody knows about this, please shed more light. Thanks.

Ben

"Ben" <rtaya7[at]gmail.com> wrote

- quote -

Not so bad. You said you "see almost perfect" with your current glasses.

If that's true, your cataracts aren't bad enough to need surgery.

Most juvenile cataracts never get worse. If they do, cataract surgery is a
simple cure.

I don't see why it should interfere with your career in IT, and I think that
optometrist caused you unnecessary worry.

-MT

Bad news.

I went to my second appointment today and after putting the drops and
waiting 10 minutes. The optometrist checked my eyes for 2 minutes and
said with confidence that I have something called Cataract, which is
common with aging people but I got Juvnile Cataract. He explained its a
problem with the internal lenses, and It can be corrected by a surgery.
He suggested not to rush into surgery and when I go home to my country
in two years, I should seek another diagnosis in a hospital.

He gave me a prescription of -2.45 to make my near work easier coz I
get headaches with -3.5 when I work on the computer. And It doesnt fix
the whole problem but just to ease things.

He also suggested that I should think carefully about considering my
career in the future, coz IT is not the best choice with my vision.

Im devastated.

Im thinking to go and see another optometrist and tell him this time
about everything, coz I didnt mention to this one about doing exercises
and improving from -4.5 to -3.5. Though I mentioned in todays
appointment that I used Pinholes glasses for TV, but he said that
should not do any harm.

I have no idea how I got this Cataract thing, I just can't believe it.
anybody can help?

Ben

The above post by the little retard is ridiculous. IQ of 35 is
believable.

"I see almost perfect
with my current glasses. Blur things start to appear like in the last
20 minutes of a 2 hour lecture. I also see some blur from far maybe so
I do tilt the glasses and I can see a bit better."


The same thing happens to me if I wear glasses that are too strong for
extended periods of time. This is accomodative spasm doing that. You
may actually want to consider getting a weaker pair of glasses to be
worn as much as possible and only wear full power for driving, movies
and far in the distance seeing.


"When the optometrist was testing my eyes, he was putting more powerful

lenses but I could not see better, maybe a bit, though they looked
almost the same coz I couldnt see letters clearer. So he concluded that

I have a problem. I hope no pathology involved in this thing."


-3.5 is your full power glasses but due to accomodative spasm your eyes
hover in the -4 range when stressed with near work or wearing full
power glasses for a while.


"the exercises I do almost the same as yours, taken from a book
called vision for life, recommended by a friend, and he watched me
doing them, and the book is in detail also, so I dont think im doing
them wrong."


My exercise book specifically says get T-glasses(transition) which
purposely undercorrect you enough to give you room to improve but not
so much undercorrection to result in uncomfortable blur. Your mistake
could be wearing the -3.5 glasses after exercise which will just cancel
the effects. Lets say after an hour of exercises your -3.5 improves to
-3 then your -3.5 glasses are too strong and strain the eyes again and
make things blurry. By undercorrecting yourself, you leave room for
improvement like I did.


"I never took off glasses when working on the computer because simply I

was advised that no harm wearing them even for close work, but my eyes
got used to them somehow so thats why I cant see everything clear on
the computer without them. Maybe this is individual issue."


Your eyes are not yet strong enough to see intermediate without
glasses. If you can improve to the -2 mark, youll find a much reduced
dependancy on glasses and find working on the computer is now possible
uncorrected! What you need to do is ask the optometrist for a weaker
glasses pescription, say -2.5 diopters to be worn as much as possible.
Keep exercising your eyes and they will improve and youll find even
-2.5 will get strong

Oh sorry that was Acema who asked not MT.

Ben