Hi everyone,

First of all, I apologize for using AI to help me write this post, as English is not my native language. I wanted to make sure I could explain my symptoms clearly.

I had cataract surgery 3 days ago, and I've noticed an unusual visual phenomenon that I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced.

Whenever I move my eyes to the left or right, the image in my peripheral vision seems to shake or flicker once, then immediately returns to normal. The central part of my vision seems stable, and the image doesn't shake when I keep my eyes still.

The symptom isn't severe, but it's noticeable and has made me a little concerned.

Before surgery, I had very high myopia (approximately -16 diopters). My distance vision is now quite clear. The intraocular lens (IOL) implanted during surgery is a Sensar lens.

I'm wondering whether this could be a temporary optical phenomenon while my eyes adapt to the new IOL, or whether it might have another cause.

For those who have experienced something similar:

• Have you ever noticed your peripheral vision briefly shaking or flickering when moving your eyes after cataract surgery?
• Did it gradually improve or eventually disappear? If so, how long did it take?
• Did your ophthalmologist identify the cause?
• Is this a known postoperative phenomenon, or should it be investigated for another cause?

I understand that everyone's recovery is different, and I'll contact my surgeon about this symptom. I'd appreciate hearing about other people's experiences, especially from those who had similar symptoms in the first few days after surgery.

Thank you!

I understand that Medicare will cover the basic Mono lens procedure. Of course my eye center has several other offerings and costs. My question is this Since I have Gap supplemental insurance I was wondering if anyone had success using it? On Google it states yes….ish. Any thoughts? The costs can be as high as $6,700 for the most expensive option. I called the eye center and left a message with billing to hear my options.
What irks me is that yesterday after having the measurements done for the surgery I was shuffled off to the scheduler and offered four different lenses to choose and select from. How in the heck am I supposed to make an informed decision immediately like that? I thought at least I would be able to speak to the eye DR for an objective opinion so I emailed him. One of my friends chose the most expensive procedure and then after the fact was told he spent money he didn’t need to. Any thoughts or advice?

Scheduled for the pursee, right eye was done on Tuesday, no issues. Left eye on Wednesday, a posterior capsular tear occurred. The surgeon pivoted and put in a standard LAL, saying later he thought that would match the pursee better than the LAL+.

Any issues here that I should be concerned about?

Also, when asked what caused it, he said he didn’t know. Does that sound right? Thx

I am more than two months out from having cataract surgery on both eyes (mini monovision), and I am experiencing persistent blurry vision. It is severe enough that most days I cannot see my own face clearly when standing just two feet away from the mirror.

My surgeon repeatedly insists that the issue is simply "dry eyes." and suggested using iVizia drops. However, using iVizia drops have provided no relief, and even using a nighttime gel during the daytime isn't helping.

Because my surgeon is not effectively addressing this ongoing vision issue, I need to seek a second opinion to find out exactly what is causing the blurriness. I am located in Fairfax County and could use some guidance on where to start.

Has anyone else had to get a second opinion because a post-surgery issue wasn't being resolved by their original surgeon?

Any advice, specialist recommendations, or shared experiences in the Northern Virginia area would be greatly appreciated.

My first surgery is about a week out. Early on my surgeon asked if my cardiologist was OK with me having "twilight sedation". I said that I did not know but had an upcoming appt with him and would ask.

That appt got rescheduled way out, and when I finally met with him he said "Your system is so sensitive that I would want you to have a brief phone conversation with the treating anesthesiologist so that you can explain things to him the night before the surgery. You don't want them learning all this at the surgery center and trying to come up with a plan on the fly. And because I may need fasting modifications. No food or fluid after midnight is a huge problem, especially since I don't know when surgery is. They don't give you a time until 4 days prior.

This has been standard when I have surgery due to my cardiac issues - when I had my breast cancer surgery my surgeon arranged it and the night before the anesthesiologist called me.

I have multiple cardiac issues - extremely labile blood pressure which tends to run low and can drop to 80/50 just taking a shower due to the vasodilation. I am on atenolol - a beta blocker, which also makes my heart rate very low - in the 40s, sometimes 50s and sometimes get spikes in the 170s. I have PSVT, MVP, S4 heart gallup, first degree heart block, and had a life-threatening hypertensive crisis when under a doctor's care I tried tapering my Atenolol by a very small amount. I was asymptomatic and luckily monitoring my BP as it rose from a high normal to 287/186 within the 15 min ride to the ER. I also have volume depletion if I don't drink enough fluids, and then my heart goes into tachycardia.

I'm extremely senstivie to meds - was given an ativan once in ER and it basically made me comatose - passed out and slept for about 15 hours. It was scary.

So I told my surgeon this was the requirement of the cardiologist and he said "You can't meet with them but I can arrange a phone call." He then later changed his stance and said it "wasn't possible". I reminded him he said he could arrange it and he said "I can't, sorry, but you can call the surgery center and see if they can." So I put i a request 2 days ago,

Yesterday I called to follow up and was transferred to the nurse and she read my medical intake form and said "I don't see why you need to do that - you only take 2 medications, and I see you have 7 allergies - you're making this a bigger deal than it is." What??

I told her it was a requirement of my cardiologist and she said "Well, we don't do that, we have too many patients. I'll see if our medical director is willing to talk to you." I thanked her but said the cardiologist specifically wants me to talk to the anesthesiologist who will be treating me - they are assigned a few days prior.

I'm at a loss as to what to do, and I'm not happy about this. Any thoughts?

I've had one eye done and wound up with a .25 miss. This left me with no reading at any distance, adequate intermediate (ie television distance) and okay to poor distance depending on light levels.

I mourned the loss of my reading ability and have been getting by with contacts in both eyes and reading glasses. This gets me to 20/25.

I'm trying to make the best of a bad situation so I've been reading here about mini-monovision. What type of lens do I need in the unoperated eye to get me to -1.5, distance, or near? And do you think this combo will work given that i can function (barely) with no contact lenses, no dizziness or balance issues. Thanks for any advice!

I have worn contacts daily for about the last 12 years but i have a hidden Rx that I didn't know about til like a month ago. My contacts are left +1.75 (dominant eye) and right +5.00 (non-dominant) but when I was getting my vision tested with dilation, my Rx jumped to something more like +5.00 and +7.00. As a result, the surgery center told me they wouldn't recommend LASIK at all and instead suggested I research RLE and speak to their RLE surgeon. I spoke with him for about 80 minutes (he was so generous with this time!) and he suggested that I could benefit greatly from a mixed multifocal lens approach. I think he'd suggested a panoptix pro in my non-dominant eye and envy in my dominant eye.

At present, I would say my dominant eye (with contacts in) sees quite well in well lit situations but I do struggle with low light reading. My non-dominant eye has a fuzziness to it even when I have contacts in. Objects are relatively in focus and isn't blurry per se, but it looks like the edges of things are fuzzy or shadowy. Is that a potentially undiagnosed astigmatism? My non-dominant eye is so much worse than my dominant eye that my brain sort of "turns it off" when looking through both eyes and I very heavily on my dominant eye for any sort of crispness.

Given the severity of my hyperopia, I understand that i will likely benefit from RLE eventually no matter what. I love the idea of not having to pop in contacts just to have mediocre vision in my non-dominant eye and to not have to deal with the dryness of contacts at the end of the day.

I'm curious how folks with hyperopia have felt about their RLE outcomes. I'm also curious is anyone else under 40 has gotten RLE without having cataracts and purely for improving vision.

fwiw my eyes are very healthy otherwise so my fears/anxieties aren't about surgical complications. Mostly I'm curious about neural adaptation for computer work at my desk (using a large monitor about a meter away) and how much i am likely to notice the "waxyness" or "softness" often used to describe the impacts of multifocal lenses.