I am really sorry for the 'slow' reply everyone
Been a bit occupied recently. I can see what you have all written, and it is very interesting to hear what others views are oabout cataracts
My cataract in my right eye - I want for an eye test at 4pm this afternoon as a temporary measure over travelling to Edinburgh to get the eye test!
I will be added to the list of hospital operations as they are at the moment
I want my right eye this done before my Spanish birdwatching holiday in September so all normal sight will be resumed - cannot wait now
Now, I am on the hospital waiting list to get my cataract done this year!
Great, as I will nearly be a perfect person again with no PC typo errors, and no mockery (once new vision is completed like the bionic woman) to go with it now .....
Hope it goes well Kathy.
John
Thank you, John - I will glad to have my 2 eyes on par with all the bird watching that goes on.
Regards
Kathy
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Kathy,
I had my first eye with cataract corrected a couple of months ago, the second is absolutely fine at this time. It was a big improvement to get it done, hope everything will be improving for you as well. However, I cannot recognize the problem with a black circle, make sure that the ophthalmologist makes a thorough evaluation before doing the surgery.
Good luck with it all!
Niels
Hi Neils
Glad to hear of your success with your cataracts! :t:
The strange black dot seems to be around and on the go, but I will ask as few more questions yet.
I did not get my usual Optican, so when i visit Edinbugh I wll ask what is what with the black circle?
Kathy - I am the same at the moment, left eye perfect vision, right eye cataract with everything very misty. Hopefully I am due to be operated on in one month from now. At the moment binoculars are pretty much a no no. I hope everything will be back to normal after the op.|;||8.|
Thank you Geoff, and that your operation goes well for you too.
I look through the binos with one eye and shut the bad eye, and it seems to work to a point - but looks a little clumsey and mad looking.
Hi Kathy,I hope everthing goes OK my wife had one done last year and is awaiting for the other to 'ripen`.I´m afraid I can´t help with the black circle as she doesn´t use binos.Best of luck from an Old Bedfordian.
Thank you eddy and I hope that your wife is okay with her ops too
Great to met another Bedford person - where did you live? - we stay at Putnoe end of Bedford at the moment.
Kathy, I'd go to an optician about that black spot as soon as possible. It sounds like something that my father developed. A black spot that grew and got larger, blotting out a portion of his vision in that eye. It was a retina problem. If they get onto it soon enough I believe they can fix it, but my dad left it a bit too long.
If you only get it when you look through your scope, though, maybe it's a problem with the optics rather than your eye?
hi BW
I will make further enquires about the black dot. i have not tried too many pairs of binos/other scopes to place a comparsion if the black dot appears each time
I will be more obervant about the dot now, and if it re-appears with some models of binos/scopes over others
Of course damaged optics could be the issues too :smoke:
I've got my check up next Wednesday having had my right eye done a few weeks back. I'd love them to do the left eye but don't think it is current at the level it needs to be at for surgery.
I'm loving the idea of hopefully just going down to reading glasses.
As Barred Wobbler has suggested, get yourself back to an optician for another eye test and explain everything. Some might have changed over time.
Di
thank you Di.
I think your cataract needs to be ripe before any surgery occurs. I can also see the point of doing one eye at a time - just incase there is a problem
I am sure that infection will be the number one concern each and every time an eye is operated on, so it is the aftercare that is paramount too
Okay the frogman 'waterproof' goggles are not sexy in the shower or bath, but they are ideal if you want to want wash your hair (as mine is long) and not to have any water near the eyeball (a no no for a month at least!)
The eye drops have to be administered too as when they are needed
Another eye test with my Edinburgh Optican is on the cards after my holidays in Spain May-time.
Regards
Kathy
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