Below a link to the late 2014 thread on cataract surgery just wondering if since then anyone has had it done and their 'after surgery' experiences.....the good or the bad.
https://www.okshooters.com/threads/got-cataracts.202245/
Because of being diabetic I go to a opthomologist yearly for a thorough eye exam, she told me in 2017 that I had the beginnings of cataracts and then during my exam early this year she said that they had worsened and that I'd better start thinking about having cataract surgery done and that we'd discuss it again at my next appointment in April 2020.
I told her that things were just a tad fuzzy / blurry now and I figured it was because I need new glasses. She gave me a eye exam and then read the prescription in my current glasses and told me that me that my current prescription matched what her findings were in the eye exam and that I didn't need new glasses and that the blurriness was from cataracts......not that shooting should be the sole purpose for having the surgery done but I also notice that my sights are not as crisp as they were a few years ago.
I'm thinking that the winter months are the best time to have the surgery done......it's a little too nippy to go to the outdoor range comfortably and there is not much in the way of outside activities right now.
From what I'm reading it takes awhile to get both eyes done separately and then get new glasses made after both eyes heal....I currently wear bifocals and I'm right handed and left eye dominant so I'm thinking about having the left eye done first.
She did mention that Medicare does not routinely cover glasses but they do cover a new pair after having cataract surgery.
So for those that have had it done or know someone that has is it all pluses or are there some negatives ?
https://www.okshooters.com/threads/got-cataracts.202245/
Because of being diabetic I go to a opthomologist yearly for a thorough eye exam, she told me in 2017 that I had the beginnings of cataracts and then during my exam early this year she said that they had worsened and that I'd better start thinking about having cataract surgery done and that we'd discuss it again at my next appointment in April 2020.
I told her that things were just a tad fuzzy / blurry now and I figured it was because I need new glasses. She gave me a eye exam and then read the prescription in my current glasses and told me that me that my current prescription matched what her findings were in the eye exam and that I didn't need new glasses and that the blurriness was from cataracts......not that shooting should be the sole purpose for having the surgery done but I also notice that my sights are not as crisp as they were a few years ago.
I'm thinking that the winter months are the best time to have the surgery done......it's a little too nippy to go to the outdoor range comfortably and there is not much in the way of outside activities right now.
From what I'm reading it takes awhile to get both eyes done separately and then get new glasses made after both eyes heal....I currently wear bifocals and I'm right handed and left eye dominant so I'm thinking about having the left eye done first.
She did mention that Medicare does not routinely cover glasses but they do cover a new pair after having cataract surgery.
So for those that have had it done or know someone that has is it all pluses or are there some negatives ?
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