I'm not sure my response got posted. Thank you for your advice. I was leaning towards the monofocal lens, and your comments reaffirmed my decision to be conservative. I assume the monofocal lens does not cause the "halo" problems I have been reading about with Crystal Lens?
I have an appt with my retina specialist on Monday to make sure I'm in good shape for the surgery.
Thank you again for your straight answer.
Jane
As a general rule - there should be no greater surgical risk with a crystalens, however, there is a higher chance of needing a second procedure to fine tune the vision after the cataract surgery. There are some surgeons that are quite accurate and experienced with crystalens - and even they might have about a 10% rate of having to do a second procedure to fine tune the vision. With your history of major eye surgery already - you might want to take the more sure bet - that being a monofocal aspheric IOL like tecnis, acrysof IQ, or sofport AO. In addition, the crystalens optic is only 5mm in diameter vs 6mm for the monofocal aspherics AND the crystalens has no ultraviolet filter (like tecnis, acrysof, and sofport) and no violet or blue light filter to further protect the retina (as the new sofport ao and acrysof IQ both have.) I think you know where I'm going. You might have a little less near vision with monofocal lens - but can always use $10 readers as needed or go with monovision or blended vision and save about $5000 cash out of pocket.
MJK MD