Mismatched eyes?

[BertrandRussell]

I'm due to have eye surgery in a couple of months that will , apparantly, result in me having a huge difference in vision between my eyes. Apparantly this can be very difficult to deal with for some people. I'm due to see my consultant soon and will ask him all my questions, but in the meantime has anyone got the same problem? I could have one eye at -1 and the other at -13.

No personal experience I’m afraid but just wanted to bump this up for you. I hope your surgery goes well and someone’s along soon who can be more help

Is that a temporary situation pending surgery on a second eye? Or the long term outcome?

-13 gets you the joy of NHS vouchers for VI level prescriptions for each eye affected. This almost covers the bus fare to the optician...

I had temporarily a big disparity between surgeries on my eyes. I found it disorienting and had almost zero 3d perception/depth perception. However for me it was just for the time between surgeries.

I would likely have adapted over time if it were permanent but I did need to be aware of the loss depth perception and use some techniques to work around it.

That's my DS normal vision. Is it temporary?

I'm not sure if it'll be temporary- they are going to do my very complicated eye and see what happens before they make any decisions about what else they do!

I have a disparity between mine (nothing like as much though) following an injury from a thorny branch nine years ago. They said it would heal completely. It hasn’t. I’ve just got used to it, to be honest.

MadMary- do you wear glasses or contact lenses?

I presume you're going to have a cataract done?

Depending on how much you use your complicated eye, you may only just need a contact lens for the LE and then maybe some driving/TV glasses for the other eye to go over the top for occasional use.

Unless you don't have very good vision in your complicated eye, you won't be able to wear glasses which have R-1.00 L -13.00 there will be too much disparity between the images sizes on the retina. They'll also look really odd as you'll have one eye that looks much bigger than the other.

I don’t wear glasses or lenses, no. Luckily I have excellent vision in one eye, and adequate vision in the damaged eye. Although this has reminded me to chase up a hospital referral for a separate eye issue.

Thank you . Ye, it is a cateract-complicated by the fact that I had a corneal graft last year, and have very poor vision in that eye-even worse than in my "normal" eye!

I hadn't actually though about how wierd the glasses would look!