Hello all,
I posted once here a long time ago looking for answers. Due to my bad vision it's hard to navigate around looking for answers.
My eyes has always been bad since I was young. It is of unusal egg or football shape and large, succeptable to retinal detachment. I have had lasering done when I was young for retinal thinning.
My current situation is, I have cateract and my vision is going down the drain fast.
I am 36 years old
My eyes was around -12 and -13 before...recently as bad as -23
I see double vision, glaring, bluriness
It's just hard to function these days.
I am having the surgery very soon, within 3 weeks. I will meet with a retinal specialist this week and final measurment next week.
I have some questions before I ask my eye surgeon more questions.
I've decided to go with the multifocal IOL, ResTor and ReZoom
On top of that, due to the high myopic nature of my eyes, it would have to be piggyback on a monofocal IOL
My eye surgeon seem to be very confident that I would not have any problems with the fact that I have 4 lens stuck in my eyes. He is one of the top 10 in the nation and graduated #1 at Baylor College of Medicine, conservative in his practice, but recommend I go with restor and rezoom. So I have confidence in his abilities. Still I am worried about it, afterall, these are the only two eyes I have. He recommend that I do the surgery 1 week apart for each eye since I might have a problem functioning with eye. To me it doesn't matter as long as I know the first one went successfuly without complication.
1. I would like to know from people who have had multifocal IOL, how well do you see out of them and if you experience any problems.
2. To any eye specialist out there, will I experience more problems with piggyback multifocal IOL, what about intraocular lenticular opacification and how worried should I be about this?
3. I am only 36 years old, will the lens last my lifetime
4. I'm afraid to ask if there's any pain involved, if I had it my way I want to be completely out cold.
5. Due to having 4 lens, will there be a weight problem, will it sag in the future and cause some problem, will I see the edge of the lens?
6. Before surgery, is there any type of food I should eat or avoid to lessen the chance of infection/complication? What should my diet be before the surgery.