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scheduled my cataract surgery for both eyes today. i'm 34 so it's a bummer to need the surgery so young. anyway, i'm thinking of going with the Symfony IOL. does anyone have any experience?
i considered doing one eye far sighted and one near sighted, but my lady's mom did that years ago and hates it.
if anyone has had cataract surgery i'd like to hear some of your thoughts. i'm scheduled for first of October and middle of October for the second eye.
thanks bros
i considered doing one eye far sighted and one near sighted, but my lady's mom did that years ago and hates it.
if anyone has had cataract surgery i'd like to hear some of your thoughts. i'm scheduled for first of October and middle of October for the second eye.
thanks bros
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moran
As for the basic lens, my insurance covers it as well, I'm just nervous about the whole thing anyway and then I hear upgrade lens and wonder if I need the diamond lens while they're at it. I don't want to get a year or two down the road and wish I had done the "better" lens. Eyes are pretty damn special.
Seriously, best of luck with this. Eyesight is a precious gift and nothing to gamble with.
I've got nothing to offer in the way of advice. I've got better than 20/20 vision. Pretty blessed in the vision category but damn it would suck to have a loss of vision. Good luck for real man.
https://youtu.be/h_IEk12RyZ8
I had Lasik done earlier this year. For what it's worth I have had no issues.
On second thought if you haven't looked it up on YouTube already, I say keep it that way. Sometimes it's better to not know how things are done. I looked up my surgery before having it done and on the day of surgery I was a little tense. I have anxiety issues so that didn't help.
So before surgery, my right eye couldn't see the big E at all. I knew what it was but I couldn't see it. This morning, 24 hours after surgery, my right eye cleared 20/20. It's unreal. Never in my life have I been able to see like this. Now I can't wait to do the left eye!
Thanks for asking bro! Best decision I've made health wise.
Pit Row
like i said earlier, i went with the Symfony lens which is a multi-focal lens. meaning i have amazing intermediate (arm length) and out vision. everything inside an arms length starts to get a little fuzzy. seeing as i golf, ride dirtbikes, mountain bike, etc... it's been a fine trade-off. i wear a pair of 1.50 readers at work to clean up the paperwork and computer vision.
anyhoo, 10/10 would recommend
Anyways you got to be happy this is all done.
and i don't need to see the torque wrench read-out, i became one with the torque long ago
How’s your night vision with halos and rings?.. do you have any issues driving at night or going out under bright stadium arena lights etc? Do you have any problems watching movies/ computer with dark/light high contrast visuals and glare?
I am really leaning towards choosing the Symfony for myself as well because I also do a lot of mountain biking, dirt bike and scuba diving. I think that having extra range with the Symfony would be a more beneficial for those activities than a standard monofocal lens. im glad to hear that you had successful results so far.
That’s awesome you only need readers now up close. It’s probably a Whole new meaning to 4K for you eh?
27 years old? fuck man, i'm sorry. i'm 34 and thought that was way too young.
night vision and halos/rings... night vision is just ok. watching a movie in my dark basement on my new super bright TV is no problem. looking at christmas lights at night i can see the rings pretty clearly. grabbing my phone in the dark and trying to focus on the bright screen is a pain in the ass without readers. driving down the road at night with slight traffic is no problem. driving on the freeway at night in a snow-storm with other headlights is a pain in the ass.
day time everything is absolutely perfect. literally the only problem is that i have to carry some reading glasses with me anywhere i go. some restaurants have poor lighting so without my readers i'm fucked.
as for the activity side of life, i couldn't imagine not having it done now. mountain-biking, dirt bikes, swimming, snowmobiling, everything is a totally different and wonderful world. absolutely amazing going from my previous vision to now. no more contacts getting irritating or glasses to remove before diving in.
long story short, the Symfony lens is everything i wanted. the cons are FAR out-numbered by the pros.
11/10 would recommend.
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