my mom went to her eye doc and she said
that she has a cataract. She's got a
surgery scheduled for thursday, which
she's nervous about. I think anything
involving your eye is just extra-scary,
even though the surgery itself has such
great success rates.
One thing though that nobody has been able
to explain to her satisfaction is why the
eye with the cataract has better vision
without her glasses than with her glasses.
How can this be true? How can the
cataract make her glasses appear to make
her vision worse? Her doctor had some
explanation for it (which I don't recall),
but for whatever reason she wasn't
satisfied with it. Can anyone here
help?
Thanks,
kate
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mike101
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 136 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: 04-07-04 08:10am
Kate
the problem you describe is generally
caused by a mis-match between
the current state of her natural lens and
the script for her glasses.
Her glasses will currnently be magnifying
the light distortion caused by the
cataract and making her corrected vision
worse.
Mike
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Lesleypiano
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Florida
Cataract/glasses Posted: 07-29-04 22:26pm
I am thinking that this may be what they
call second sight. The eye with the
cataract gets to a point that vision seems
somewhat better for a while. Type vision
second sight into your web browser and you
may come up with an explanation.
Bye
lh
