This is a followup question to my post here titled: Type of lens implant for victrectomy that was answered by Houman Vosoghi, MD . Okay. I took your advice and went with monofocal lenses and not Restor3. Very happy I did that. Thank you. My new eye doctor talked me into monovision even though at first I decided on first distance only and then mini monovision. But in the end I went with full monovision because he promised he could lasik me to distance if I could not adapt to the full monovision. I am left eye dominant and the worst cataract was in my right eye. I had all the tests done even a water immersion in my right eye to determine the distance to the retina (28.7mm). I had also gone to a retinal specialist about my floaters and he gave me a full set of tests which were sent to my eye doctor and said I was a candidate for a vitrectomy if they were still a problem 3 months after the cataract surgery. My last eyeglass prescription after having gas perm lenses out for 4 months was DV OD Sphere -750 Cylinder Sph Axis (nothing) OS Sphere -800 Cylinder +275 Axis 080. NV OD & OS +225. So, I am highly myopic.
I had my right eye done on Wednesday afternoon (yesterday). I was elated upon returning home to find out how great I could see in the distance, but when I tried reading, it was blurry. I figured this was normal and the eye was just healing. The next day (today) I went for my followup wearing my gas perm contact lens in my left eye. Sure enough, I was 20/20 distance with my right eye alone and a J2 with both eyes for reading. However, I feel the reading ability was mostly from my left eye with contact in. He looked at my file for several minutes and said that all the data pointed to this lens setting so that is what he went with and that this sometimes happens. I said well, no problem, you can always lasik me so that I can read. That's when I got the bad news that it is difficult to go that way and that I would need a replant or a piggy back lens. He said that he didn't like piggy back lenses. He looked at my eye and said he noticed that I had corneal edema from the incision down to the axial plane and that once the swelling subsided, that I may be able to read with my right eye.
At home tonight, I just tested my right eye reading alone (because when I have the left eye done for distance, I will only have my right eye for reading, right?) and I could only read a book with 1.5 reading glasses. Without reading glasses, I can only read when type is 20 inches away.
My questions are: Is it reasonable that this can happen? That I could end up with distance vision when I was supposed to have reading vision in my right eye? It seems like maybe he erred and went with a distance setting by mistake. I would think he would have erred on the side of going too far on the reading side so lasik could be used to correct it. And I am not looking for a lawsuit, What is done is done. I am only looking for honesty and looking forward as I am scheduled for my left eye in another week since I am so myopic. I would rather have someone honest do my left eye. Is it feasible that when the swelling goes down that I will have reading vision? Any estimates on how much time it will take for the swelling to subside? Should I wait on the left eye? I can see great in that eye because the cataract is off to the side and not in my vision plane. I do great with a contact in or with no contact at all in left eye. Glasses are a no go. What are your thoughts on a replant? Or should I just live with the reading glasses?
Thanks in advance.
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