Problems a Few Years After Cataract Operation Posted: 02-10-07 07:01am
I'm new to the ehealth forum and apologise
if this issue has already been well dealt
with.
I'm a 59 year old male. Around three
years ago, I had a standard lens
replacement to deal with a troublesome
cataract. No problems with the
operation and everything has been good
since (the other eye is also
cataract-afflicted, but has been far
slower in its deterioration).
Just a few days ago, I noticed "floaters"
in the repaired eye, but attached no
significance to this. Then, when
retiring to bed last night (with the
lights off), I "saw" or sensed an
orange/yellow crescent - almost like a new
moon - to the bottom of the eye. On
blinking, the crescent seemed to move to
another portion of the eye. I'd had a
few modest glasses of red wine - no other
substances - and didn't think too much of
it until this morning. When walking
about, I had the same sense of a
"crescent" around the same eye - but this
time it appeared dark (and again
accompanied by floaters). Lit up in
darkness and dark in daylight! Odd.
I thought that the problem may have been
grit, or the wind, and i've tried eye
drops to no avail. But i've had the
same experiences when going outside
tonight - the floaters and the "new moon"
crescents in the darkness, although the
actual clarity of vision in the eye seems
pretty much unchanged. The eye is a
little watery, but there's no pain.
While I plan on going to a health
professional if the problem persists after
this weekend, i'm intrigued about what all
this might mean. I do recall, when I
had the cataract procedure, the doctor
making some remark about complications -
in a small percentage of cases - sometime
down the track.
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