Symfony IOL resuls

[Mfhmark]

Surgery on my right eye was yesterday. Vision was blurry for about 6 hours and then cleared. But movement was very disorienting. It is less disorienting today. The vision in the eye is very good for everything except for very close. I had a hard time pitting my eye drops in, but am slowly adjusting.

My contact lenses prescription was -10 and -11, so this is amazing for me. I can't wait for the second eye which is scheduled for April 13.  The anatomy of my eye is very long and narrow so the surgeon is cautiously optimistic about the results. But it is looking good so far.

[Mfhmark]

So now I find out that the Toric lens is good for near and far but not intermediate. So the difference between the two eyes is markedly different. So different that I have trouble focussing and there is a bluring at all distances. The doctor says to give it time for neuro adaptation so that my brain will eventually use my right eye for near and the left eye for distance.

Left eye is 20/20 for distance, 20/25 intermediate, 20/20 near
Right eye is 20/30 for distance, 20/15 intermediate, 20/20 near

The left lense is less likely to shift as when they rotated the lense, they withdrew some gel and packed in a denser gel to hold the lense in place.

I think I will be wearing an eye patch for reading until I can get to the optometrist to see what can be done while my eyes adjust.

[SoftwareDeveloper]

Sorry to hear you had bad luck with the lens rotating, there are a few  people who posted on this site recently with  far worse vision due to lens rotation with different toric lenses. I didn't need toric lenses so it hadn't come to mind that might be likely your issue.  The surgeon of course is presumably assuming things will clear up after the swelling goes down, hopefully it will and it'll remain at least 20/20 so you'll have a good distance eye, and an eye giving you a bit nearer, so on balance hopefully in the end the results will turn out well even if you went through some struggles to get there.

[Mfhmark]

One day after the lens was rotated and a gel inserted to hold it in place, the cornea is swollen. The vision will be blurry for a few days. But distance is now 20/20 when it was 20/40 pre-op. Now to wait for the vision to clear and see if my eye shifts the lens to 20/30 like it did on the other side.

The surgeon is very happy with the results. Me, not so much given the blurring. It could take a week to clear up.

[Mfhmark]

3 weeks post op on the second eye shows that the Toric lens rotated. So back into surgery to fix it on Wed.

[Mfhmark]

Yes for distance. Near and intermediate are not a problem. I didn't get the numbers for each eye, although it seems like the intermediate is a bit off for the left eye. The doctor says there would be no problem getting me to 20/20 with laser enhancement which would be in about 6 months. They will take care of the PCO first in about 3 months.

My optometrist isn't available until mid-May, so I will be going around blurry until then.

[SoftwareDeveloper]

re: "still pretty blurry in the left eye"

I'm guessing you might just mean for distance without correction? You don't give the visual acuity separately for the left eye for intermediate/near to see if there is an issue (since the binocular acuity might be relying on the right eye).  The issue of most concern is the "best corrected" vision in each eye, the vision you'll get with correction, which indicates whether there is a problem or whether its merely due to being   myopic in that eye.

re: "suggested correction of -.75 and -1.00"

It seems they missed the refractive target and left you myopic which is why distance will be blurry of course.   The 20/16 for near is obviously very good, which suggests your distance vision is likely to be very   good with correction (contacts, glasses, or eventual laser enhancement after things settle down).  Based on the fact that your near is better than intermediate, I'm guessing those  correction numbers aren't fully correcting distance as much as  they could, but giving you good enough distance vision while leaving more near.