Hi:
I'm 44 years old
High Myope. Glasses of -13
My right eye is blind. Had a Massive
retinalFluorescein angiography
Retinal artery occlusion
Retinal detachment
Retinal detachment repair
Retinal dye injection detatchment 10 years ego.
My Left eye developed cataracts and had Surgery /phaco/lens replacement with Monofocal IOL.
The cataract surgery was done 6 days ago.
I was told that I will not needn Glasses for far.
I can wonder around and I'm able to do things like driving with no problem but my
visualVisual acuity test acuty is not as sharp as it was before the surgery when I was using my -13 correction Contact Lenses.
As an example. Before surgery I was able to read a car Number plate from 25 meters far. Now, with the IOL I can read a car number plate from 18 meters far.
I tried glasses over the counter and with +1 have a much sharper image on far distance objects.
For reading I'm usinf +3 glasses.
I was told that after the IOL implant I will not need glasses for far, but the fact is that I see better with a +1 correction. I'm very dissapointed about this.
Questions:
1- The surgery was done 6 days ago. Is is too soon to have the final refractive stabilisation and
visualVisual acuity test acuty?. I do not think that this will change significantly.
2- Is it true that because of having a high myopia (-13), then the IOL implant will give me a correction with some sort of error?. (I am needing a +1 glasses to have a good far vision)
Thanks very Much
Walter