Surgery for age related long sightedness! OMG! No more reading glasses!

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Posting here for traffic. I want to let people know about this. Because I had no clue this surgery existed until I got cataracts. Basically if you have cataracts or need reading glasses due to getting a bit older, you can have an artificial lens placed in your eye and your eyesight will be perfect again. I had this done a few days ago and it is LIFE CHANGING! I’ve never seen any adverts for this, didn’t even know it was a thing. No more glasses to watch TV or read a text! Mind blown!

This sounds very much like an ad

lol. Have you ever seen an Ad for this, because I haven’t. I was mortified when I got cataracts, now I’m glad I did or I would never have known this existed!

Whats it called

I've got them, but only because I had cataracts. It's not something I'd have had done otherwise..

It’s life changing. Lens replacement surgery is the official term, and although it’s usually to remove cataracts, you can have it done to correct short (or long) sight.
I have gone from being so short-sighted that I couldn’t read without glasses to having 20:20 vision.

I knew about this but only because I had researched it. It also blew my mind to find out that you can get varifocal contact lenses.

I think I would only get the lens replacement done if I needed the cataract surgery, otherwise I’d be too worried about something going wrong. There must be risks. To be fair, I wouldn’t have laser surgery for the same reason.

There are literally no risks. I did lots of research . I’m 57 and now have the vision I had as a 20 year old!

I got multi focal lense replacement without having cataracts. It cost £6k but it fixed my long distance vision and I’ll never get cataracts in the future. It wasn’t all perfect but overall I’m happy.

i had this done 20 years ago as I was very short sighted, it is indeed miraculous!

That’s misleading as there are risks. It’s surgery on your eyes, things can go wrong however small the chances! I had to have corrective surgery and then some laser treatment before mine were right.

How much and where did you have this done?

It’s privately paid for, not NHS in case people are wondering. Cataract surgery is available on the NHS but they don’t use a multifocal or vertical lense.

Yes, Posterior Capsule Opacification? DH had this after surgery. Required YAG Laser but after that it’s ok now. His was covered in the initial cost of the op because it occurred within a certain period of time. Unsure if that’s always covered though.

Yep, my mum had a stigmatism and wore glasses from the age of 2 but after her cataract lens replacement she didn't need glasses! It was weird seeing my mother without glasses for the first time ever!!!

Dm could hardly see after it so there are risks.

Just wanted to correct a couple of misleading points here (work in the industry)
Firstly - it isn’t risk free! It’s surgery! It’s very safe, and risks are low, but not risk free
Secondly - standard NHS cataract surgery does not use multi focal implants and most people will need reading glasses after surgery (some will still need distance specs too!) Private clear extraction surgery gives you the option of multi focal implants which if all goes to plan will correct both distance and reading vision 👍🏻

Bullshit are there no risks
stop spreading dangerous misinformation
every eye surgery carries risks up to and including losing your sight in that eye or the eye actually being removed
those risks may be small but they exist and you would have been told that when you signed your consent form it should have been
there are also risks of infection and a wide range of complications
Yes it's straightforward surgery for most people but don't be so disingenuous

And what @Allsizes8to14 said

I have had this in April and only just getting fully used to it now, going from -10 to normal vision!

What a contradictory post!

I am 60 and wearing varifocal specs all the time now. I’m thinking of getting this done. I had a consultation at Specsavers but I don’t know whether it’s better to go to a good consultant who is highly skilled or through Specsavers with someone less highly educated but who does these all day every day?

Specsavers referred me via NHS to the eye clinic. (I ended up going private but at the same place)

Literally no risks

That's simply untrue if you read papers on the subject. The risks are small, but they exist and can result in loss of vision, albeit rarely.

Also a friend of mine has been waiting over a year to have hers replaced as they have been recalled.

I am no expert but my optician told me that if you get cataract surgery on the NHS, the new lens can counteract either long or short sightedness (but not both).

Um, no. I got early-onset cataracts at 26, went from being nearsighted to farsighted after surgery, and they actually tried multifocal lenses first so I could have both near and distance vision. They didn’t work for me, so they ultimately corrected me for distance instead I've been using progressive lenses ever since.

So maybe don’t tell people cataract surgery is basically “they put in an artificial lens and your eyesight is perfect again,” because that is wildly oversimplified and absolutely not how it works for everyone. I’m glad you had an amazing result, but your individual outcome is not a universal guarantee.