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My mother had cataracts removed from both eyes September (L) and October (R) and had wonderful results ! She see's wonderfully and for the first time in 5 years she feels comfortable driving a car again. She does have extreme sensitivity to light, especially sunlight and although she just throws on some sunglasses and moves on, it worries me a little.
In addition ~ she still has that feeling that something is in her eye and its irritating her. I can actually see on the whites of her eye if she looks to the right ~ what looks like a pimple but its white like her eye. Is this a scar ? And should it be removed ?

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

You should have the surgeon look at it with his biomicroscope (slit lamp). It could be a suture or something called a filtering bleb. In anycase its not nomal for it to feel like there is something in the eye and I'm sure the surgeon would like to look at it.

JCH III MD