Re: Has Anyone Had IOL Surgery?


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if you had asked to be undercorrected slightly you wouldnt need reading
glasses much, unless you want to read fine print or see something close
up. A slight undercorrection will also mean youll only need glasses for
driving and maybe some other occasional events. Less annoying than
carrying readers all the time and inserting, removing, inserting,
removing them. some people just wear bifocals instead.

Well, if one is only slightly presbyopic, that perhaps would work. For those
of us more presbyopic, I doubt that a slight undercorrection in both eyes
would serve for both distance and near vision.

I suspect that IOLs after cataract surgery are often prescribed monovision,
just like contact lenses often are for presbyopic patients--one eye better
for distance, the other for reading. In other words-undercorrecting one eye,
not both, and perhaps more than "slightly", depending on how bad the
presbyopia is. It is a compromise of course, but one many make in order not
to bother with reading glasses. My brother had Lasik done monovision--one
eye undercorrected, for near work.

Yet, the idea of accommodating IOLs certainly sounds like a better solution,
if they really get it to work well. From what I;'ve read (I think here), it
is still very new, and perhaps not so good yet. But if they keep developing
this, and in the future such IOLs can really work like good young
accommodating eyes, that would indeed be a great development!


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