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I CAN SEE!!

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Dante:
Fun Fact: I started wearing glasses at around 15 years old. I'm 56 now, so that's 41 years.

My eyes were terrible - much older than me. I had cataracts in each eye. It had finally gotten so bad that the eye doc was unable to correct my vision to 20/20.

I had surgery in each eye last June and I can see better than 20/20 now! No more glasses. Lots of sunglasses and 'readers' to see stuff up close. But, it is life changing to be without them. I was, by far, the youngest person in there for cataracts surgery

Some things that still really mess with my head; getting in the shower and being able to see, walking in the rain without seeing spots, I keep trying to take my glasses off when I go to sleep & I expect the clock to be blurry when I open my eyes to look at it in the mornings.

Just renewed my driver's license and had them remove the phrase "must wear corrective lenses"

I can see

MarshallJMP:
That's good news !!! Me I just need to wear reading glasses like a lot of people my aga.

rnolan:
Hey Dante, that's fantastic  :thumb-up:   I had a similar experience around 7 years ago.  I started needing reading glasses, then my eyes got worse and I spent lots on various on axis, multi focal glasses etc. I had cataracts which got worse quite quickly, the glare drove mad, got to the point where driving was dangerous just from the glare, daylight or lights at night tuning into stars...  I had the cataracts done (like you I was the youngest in the queue), the change was profound, I could see again, didn't need any glasses, no little block blobs floating around.  My eyes are staring to go off a bit again, I can read the computer screen fine if I keep a decent distance from it but very small print in low light is becoming an issue again (though the basic chemist 1x glasses help if really needed), but everything else is still good, driving is fine, TV is fine.

rabidgerry:
Glad your eyes are sorted now Dante!  Almost sounds like you have PGWS.  I invented that and it means post glasses wearing syndrome.  May be it is a thing already I dunno?

I do not wear glasses but someday I might need them.  Personally, I would be interested in a thing they have these days called laser eye surgery.  Is this what you had Dante?  It's been around a while now and that to me means they're probably even better at it.  I'd go this route.  I've never been for an eye test either because I think those places just want to hand anyone out glasses whether you need them for real or not.

As soon as I start having issues reading I'll think about the test  ;D

Dante:
@Richard - Same story, it was dangerous for me to drive at night. I still see the blobs, but I was told to ignore them and my mind will no longer see them (rreally?)

@Gerry - I went in asking if I could have laser surgery (Lasik) or a procedure called PRK, to correct my vision one way or another. During the pre-operation work, the doc told me about the cataracts finally being an issue and explained the option to fix my eyes once and for all. I was all in.

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