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[KCDiva]

Thanks all! I'm home and going to rest. It was easy peasy. 

[Shanus]

@chrystaltree   6:30 next morning. I DID have a very light IV sedation. Vision is blurry since glasses are corecting "good"eye " and other has plastic shield until removed at appointment post op at 8:30.

DH is typing and saying "what are these forums for? What do you gals talk about?" I said none of your business, just type!!! Lol  

[tansy]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

It's normal to be nervous but you'll be fine   They don't use general anesthesia with cataract surgery.   Surely your surgeon told you that.  They numb the eye with eye drops and inject a local anesthetic around the eye.  

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There were no injections around the eye.  

[Sooner]

I had a general light anesthesia and wouldn't do it without it.  I also demanded a Valium before.  I think they just threw it at me like a fish at a seal.  At least that's how it seemed to me.  

[CelticCrafter]

@Shelbelle I think the cost of the compounded drops depends on the doctor or it's a regional thing.  My husband paid $50 for his compounded in September.  

[Shelbelle]

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@CelticCrafter wrote:

@Shelbelle I think the cost of the compounded drops depends on the doctor or it's a regional thing.  My husband paid $50 for his compounded in September.  

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I am in MD, when I had my surgeries in early 2023 my eye doc said there is no local pharmacy here that makes compounded eye drops. He gave me the name and number of a pharmacy in Montana to call, they mailed the bottle to me free of charge just had to pay the $40 each time. . Who knows, it could be $50 by now. 

[TheWanderingOne]

Compared to what I went thru to repair a detached retina, cataract surgery was a walk in the park!

I refused all sedatives and anethesia. It's a 15 minute procedure and your eye is numb so you don't feel anything. 

The toughest part was finding a numbing agent for my eye that I'm not allergic to. All of the drops that they normally use are in the "ester" family, and I can't have that. My opthamologist went with lidocaine and it worked just fine.

SInce I only had cataract in one eye, I drove myself to the follow up appointment the next morning. The patch came off as soon as I got home from the surgery center. 

The roughest part of the recovery was not being able to play golf for 5 days. Too much head movement, or so I was told.