I wonder if someone had the same experience as I had.
Last year (2010), on september, I started to notice someting strange on my RE.
After a long exam, my dr. said I was starting to develop a cataract, but it was still very small.
He also said that it should develop fast.
On december (3 months after), my vision was terrible (multiple images, I could see 3 lights for every car light!), and he could see the cataract very easy.
He said it was not much big, but as he antecipated, it was developing very fast and it would get worse each day.
He also said it was centered on my lens.
Ok, so lets remove it and implant a monofocal IOL.
I had to wait until february, I could not schedule it sooner, so I had a hard time at work on december and january.
Also I decided to stop driving at night on the last days of january, because I was already seeing 5 car lights for each light !!
My surgery was perfect. I used to be myopic with -5.75, but on the next day after surgery I could see 20/20. My distance vision was better then it was even before cataract.
Of course near vision was bad, but thats ok, a reading glass would solve this problem.
But then just 20 days after surgery, although I still can see 20/20, I already developed PCO, and I feel that it is developing fast, like the cataract.
I heard thats its common and can develop between months and years after surgery, but days !!!???
He said it will be solved easy with YAG laser, but we will wait 2 to 3 months to wait a full recovery of my cataract surgery. To make things worse, I can`t wear my glasses because now I have -3.75 on LE e "0" on RE, so my brains go nuts when I put the glasses. I will try contacts, if it does not work I will do the surgery on my LE to implant a IOL. But that is another problem.
I am 43 years old, and I heard that on young cataract patients like me, this can happen, I mean, it can develop very fast. For now my LE is ok, I didn`t notice any signs of cataract on it, but my dr. said the probability of having cataract on LE is high. I forgot to mention, I also have glaucoma under control.
I was thinking, is this scenario could indicate someting more serious ? Or it is a age related thing ?
Dr. O.