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<blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 3837655" data-attributes="member: 42584"><p>Here's a thought. After my cataract surgery was completed I went in for a third post-op at which time I mentioned that I was seeing double-vision (at times) with the second image stacked just above and on top of the primary image. My ophthalmologist told me that the cause was that the cornea had absorbed too much water, causing blurriness and double vision. He prescribed Sodium Chloride (2%) eye drops along with a Sodium Chloride ointment (5% - to be used at bedtime) to draw the excess water out.</p><p></p><p>Double vision and blurriness cleared up but then had slight irritation (felt like a grain of dust in the eye. I was told that the irritation that I was feeling was at the site of incision and that this irritation would eventually disapear. At the next visit a week later and I was told, after eye check, to stop all eye drop/ointment medications immediately which were now replaced with "<em>Natural Tears</em>" eye drops to be used as needed for eye-ball lubrication. </p><p></p><p>Irritation, except on rare occasions, now completely gone, blurriness and double vision gone, vision getting stronger to the point that I'm between having to use/not having to use readers for close-up work which I attribute to wearing an eye patch for 1-2 hours a day over the eye still having the cataract, in effect forcing my [now] good eye to improve (which is actually more of a brain thing).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuckie, post: 3837655, member: 42584"] Here's a thought. After my cataract surgery was completed I went in for a third post-op at which time I mentioned that I was seeing double-vision (at times) with the second image stacked just above and on top of the primary image. My ophthalmologist told me that the cause was that the cornea had absorbed too much water, causing blurriness and double vision. He prescribed Sodium Chloride (2%) eye drops along with a Sodium Chloride ointment (5% - to be used at bedtime) to draw the excess water out. Double vision and blurriness cleared up but then had slight irritation (felt like a grain of dust in the eye. I was told that the irritation that I was feeling was at the site of incision and that this irritation would eventually disapear. At the next visit a week later and I was told, after eye check, to stop all eye drop/ointment medications immediately which were now replaced with "[I]Natural Tears[/I]" eye drops to be used as needed for eye-ball lubrication. Irritation, except on rare occasions, now completely gone, blurriness and double vision gone, vision getting stronger to the point that I'm between having to use/not having to use readers for close-up work which I attribute to wearing an eye patch for 1-2 hours a day over the eye still having the cataract, in effect forcing my [now] good eye to improve (which is actually more of a brain thing). [/QUOTE]
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