Poor vision after cateract surgery- can it be corrected?

[purplepam]

I am 45.  Discovered I had cateract in both eyes and had a panic moment and decided to have surgery.  The first surgery was the eye that was the worst of the two.  I didn't have any major issues, but I also was NOT at all sedated just numbed (they "forgot" to do the sedation) and in two weeks my vision was clear as far as shapes and colors but I could no longer wear my normal reading glasses and ended up getting readers.  In speaking with dr office, it seemed like doing the other eye would make them "balance and I would be able to see.

Fast forward a year later and I deeply regret having this surgery at all.  I have over the counter readers and where I used to could read my blackberry screen, I now can't.  Where I used to could read a book, I now I have use my Ipad.  Forget looking at pictures on phones...

I am curious to know if I may have received the wrong lens?   I have not gone back to dr again as it seemed they were "done" trying to adjust anything and we were all frustrated.  Am I just stuck??

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

good luck JCH MD

[purplepam]

This was first time I posted.   Thanks

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

I believe you've asked this same question recently and had it answered. If not it was a clone. See a different, respected refractive-cataract Eye MD surgeon for a second opinion. It is impossible to judge what problems you have from your presentation.

You can find a eye MD near you at www.geteyesmart.org

JCH MD