I do not have diabetes or any health related issues. Not sure why I developed cataracts at such a young age. My goal was 20/20 and I expected to need glasses for reading. Even though I am still near sighted, I do not have very good intermediate vision and especially fine print.
I would like to pursue an enhancement such as Lasik or IOL exchange but wonder about how much risk would be involved. Does one pose more risk than the otter? Would the amblypia be an issue?
It all depends on what you discussed with your surgeon before surgery. If a nearly 20/20 correction for distance was intended then you are certainly far off from that. If you had gotten that, however, you would have had terrible near and intermediate vision. Since you had cataract surgery at such a young age, I wonder if ypu might be a diabetic or have other health issues. In the end, this is not in itself a bad result but I get the feeling that your expectation and intent was to be much better for distance being accepting of the fact that your reading vision would be much, much, more dependant on reading glasses after surgery. As you are, you should be able to read fairly well for general use, should need readers for very small print only, and will of course need glasses for distance use like driving. The good news is that you can now be corrected to 20/20 with glasses so that is a major improvement. Choices now are to live with it (which is OK) possible have lasik in one eye or an IOL exchange -which is best done in the first month or so post operatively.
MJK MD
MJK MD
I forgot to mention I am 43 years old.