Re: Cataracts checkup today

HiLo · ‎03-10-2010

@Silver Lining wrote:
@sophiamarie wrote:
Exactly one year after my cataract surgery, I noticed cloudiness in one eye also. It's sometimes called "after cataract cloudiness". I googled this - this is probably what you are experiencing. I had the Yag laser treatment. It took a few seconds and my eye was clear again. I also had it in the other eye 2 months later.

"The most common complication of cataract surgery is clouding of the part of the lens covering (capsule) that remains after surgery, called posterior capsule opacification. If the cloudiness affects your vision, you may choose to have a laser surgery called Nd:YAG posterior capsulotomy to correct this problem."

You should go back to the ophthalmologist who removed your cataracts. He will/should do the laser treatment.

Let us know your outcome. Don't let this go. Good luck.

@sophiamarie and @HiLo, I had this laser surgery about a month ago by the opthalmologist who had done my cateract surgery two years ago. He did the eye that had lost more vision first and the other eye two weeks later. It is done in the opthalmologist's treatment room at his office. No drugs or IV anesthesia are needed. They dilate and deaden the eye with drops. You stay seated. It is just a tad uncomfortable but not painful.

I am so sorry you were given the run-around by the opthalmologist who did your cataract surgery. That makes me mad. He is going to have to provide your medical records to whomever does the capsulotomy anyway. It will be okay. You will get the good clear vision back in your bad eye pretty much immediately after the laser procedure and you won't be afraid to have the other one done if needed.

Thank you Silver Lining. All of these comments have made me so much less afraid.

Silver Lining · ‎04-16-2010

@HiLo, you are so welcome! It bothered me to know you are having such a hard time!! My opthalmologist said the loss of vision from the cloudiness that sometimes develops a year or two after cataracts are removed can be very frightening and make you afraid you're going blind. It can be fixed in a minute or so with the laser. The other doctors who examined your eyes apparently ruled out macular degeneration, detached retina and glaucoma or they wouldn't have recommended the laser surgery to restore the vision in the bad eye. Again, I am so sorry you've had to go through this.

Silver Lining · ‎04-16-2010

@LilacTree, I'm so glad you got a good report from your opthalmologist!

sophiamarie · ‎08-08-2013

@Silver Lining wrote:
@HiLo, you are so welcome! It bothered me to know you are having such a hard time!! My opthalmologist said the loss of vision from the cloudiness that sometimes develops a year or two after cataracts are removed can be very frightening and make you afraid you're going blind. It can be fixed in a minute or so with the laser. The other doctors who examined your eyes apparently ruled out macular degeneration, detached retina and glaucoma or they wouldn't have recommended the laser surgery to restore the vision in the bad eye. Again, I am so sorry you've had to go through this.

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Gosh, I hope so (re: the lines I bolded).... Not knowing where the OP lives, it's hard to tell. If the OP is the one who mentioned Johns Hopkins, then she's in good hands..... I hope she comes back and tells us about her good outcome.