Your scopes are only as good as your eyes!

ha ha. Get the other driver to dim his bright lights.
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I know what you mean though. The car head lights are much brighter now after my surgery. But the reflections are much less now after the cataract surgeries.

I've been trying to tell if my eye sight for shooting with my AR15 with the EOTech attached is better or not. I've not use the Nikon Scope on the AR15 much since I had the surgery.

And shooting my pistol is a challenge still with some double vision without wearing a pair of 1.25 diopter reading glasses to see the front sight on the pistol better and without double vision. The astigmatism is not cured for up close stuff without reading glasses.
 
I do the same thing. I use the Equate Brand "Revive Plus Lubricant Eye Drops" and a few other brands. They all pretty much help wash the gunk out of my eyes in the morning and flush the eyes to help them stay moist.
 
I was fully awake when they replace the lens in my left eye. It was awesome to watch them work and to see the lights of the Laser device.

But with my second eye I had a different anesthesiologist and he put me fully under for the first part of the operation and I didn't wake up until it was almost over. I also noticed that I have a lot of very tiny dots (floaters) in my right eye after the cataract surgery with the laser. I will need another vitrectomy surgery in my right eye some time in the future to get rid of all the floaters. They will only have to suck out the eye ball juice and replace them with salt water (saline) solution. The right eye's retina is OK thank god. So hopefully it will stay OK and I won't have to have anymore retinal operations on either eye.

My left eye's humorous material was taken out and replace with saline solution after my cataract surgery so I didn't noticed any of the tiny floaters after that operation. Also the left eye's retina was damaged and caused my vision to still be distorted after the cataract surgery. I had the retina repaired right after the left eye cataract surgery. That's when another eye surgeon performed the vitrectomy surgery and removed the fluid inside my left eye and removed a membrane (5 microns thick)that was covering my left eye's retina and pulling on the Macular area of my retina.

http://www.rvscny.com/vitreomaculartractionsyndrome.html
 
Distortion of Straight lines may have to do with your RETINA. Ask the doctor to do a OCT test on your eye and take a picture of your retina to see if it's OK. That is how my eye doctor found out that I had a epiretinal membrane covering my left eye retina. I noticed that straight horizontal lines were wavy and not straight which led to my diagnosis of having an epiretinal membrane (5 microns thick) covering my left eye's retinal Macular area and putting traction on the retina causing the vision distortion. If you catch this early the results of the surgery are better.

I also noticed that objects seen with my left eye seems bigger and distorted at the same time.

I'm still seeing objects larger and closer with the left eye but the horizontal distortion of straight lines is gone. Now I see distortion in the vertical lines only. Like telephone pole on the side of the road appear to be bent at the top 1/3 of the pole. and the sides of the TV screen are not straight up and down but cure in and out. I'm hoping that the healing process will fix this. My eye surgeon told me that it can take a while for the swelling in my retina to go back down. I just saw him in May 2015 and have to see him again next Jan 2016. That will be about one full year after my Jan 2015 retina eye operation for the epiretinal membrane.

I wish you well in your recovery. Cataract surgery really does help in most cases and is being done more frequently with us baby boomers.
 
My take on the ''multifocal'' cataract surgery is this, DON'T. My reasoning is this, my brain has enough trouble when things are all the same with my eyes, one for distance and one for reading would blow my brains circuits pretty fast. My eye surgeon advised me to pick one, I did, see great at distance, use reading glasses for reading, works for me. Y'all take care, John.
 
Originally Posted By: glockmeisterMy take on the ''multifocal'' cataract surgery is this, DON'T....
I wouldn't go for one long & one short either, even tried it with contacts, but there are other options.
Technology is changing each year, those that follow us will have more to choose from.
 

Well its 2 weeks after my second cataract surgery. I had an OCT scan to yesterday to check my retina, but that came out completely normal. The doctor took me off the antibiotic and steroid eye drops yesterday. I'm not anxious to get more surgery, so I plan on giving the eye more time to heal. He did see a slight artifact or pucker in the vitreous in front of the retina that is likely causing the slight distortion I'm seeing. For now, its wait and see. OH oh, that is another pun. For the most part I'm very pleased with the overall results.
 
I have a lot of spots (tiny floaters) in my right eye now after my Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery in my right eye. I think I read where it's a common side effect of the laser type surgery. They use the laser to heat up the tissue and form a tiny air bubble which burst and make the cut with a series of these gas bubbles in a row. But if they rupture the capsule that holds the original lens of your eye these tiny floaters can escape into the Vitreous material inside your eye ball.

I had the Vitreous Material in my left eye sucked out and replaced with clean saline solution so I got rid of the big floater that I had in my left eye. So I don't see any more floaters in the left eye at all. But that could be because the retina is still healing too.

I have a big floater in my right eye and had that before the cataract surgery in the right eye. It's still there. The only good way to get rid of it is to have the vitreous material removed and replaced with saline solution in another eye operation. Dr Drew Summerville is my goto eye surgeon for that type of operation. He did my left eye like that and also took the epiretinal membrane off my left eye's retina Macular area.
 


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