reading glasses for person with 2 very different eye prescriptions

[kiimmie]

I had a cataract surgery on my left eye and it turned out to be minus 2.25.  It was minus 5.5 before.However my right eye is still minus 5.5. I have got glasses for general use at minus 2.25 for left and minus 5.5 for right. I am all right for general seeing and watching TV but I cannot read easily as my left naked eye wants to read far and the right naked eye, near. Also I feel unbalanced. Please can you tell me if reading glasses will be the solution to my reading difficulty or do I need to do an operation on my right eye (which has a mild cataract) and bring the vision to minus 2.5 too. I am scared of another cataract operation as I had a lot of problems with the first one on the left eye including swelling at the back and developing a secondary membrane and needing Yag Laser for it. I had the Yag Laser on the left eye a week ago.

[JodieJ]

These are specially made glasses for people who have a significant difference in refractive error between their eyes.

[kiimmie]

Please can you tell me what you mean by 'try a slab off glasses'.

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

You eyes are too different to work well together. You might try a slab off glasses.

Your solution is to get the cataract removed in the other eye so that the difference in refraction is less.


Dr. O.