OT: Cataract Surgery

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

Dr. Alan Solinsky - Solinsky EyeCare | 5 Connecticut Locations

My mom was legally blind in her right eye because of a cataract. Dr. Solinsky had to use femtosecond laser surgery to remove it. Her left eye also had a dense cataract that was removed.

It sounds like your condition is not quite as bad. The journey to get my mothers vision back took almost a year because of post surgery corneal and macular edema. This was a result of the size of the cataract.

She now can see 20/25 in the left eye. The right eye has good vision also! This doctor is great. Highly recommended!

Good luck!
BDH

 

[SallyH]

My parents were both optometrists - they couldn't perform this surgery of course - but my mother would talk about her first patients asking her if she would pull their eyeballs out and scrape behind them. After assuring them that no one had done this to them, they were positive that the "old doc" had indeed scraped behind their eyeballs. My very smart mother finally told them that she used newer techniques and she didn't need to do that any more.

 

[gtcam]

Is this your application for a Trump cabinet position?

nope - he heard it from Hilary who read it while curled up on her couch at her home with her rented dog while Bill was sitting at his desk calling Iran on the only cell phone Hillary ever used looking for more money while getting pleased by their Sandinista maid who has full security clearance

 

[RichZ]

Anyone here have cataract surgery?

Please share you experience.

Thanks

During my terrible period of multile eye surgeries following a detached retina a few years ago, one of the 11 operations I had was a cataract surgery in my troublesome right eye. Not so much that *I* could see better, but so that the surgeon could see into my eyeball better during surgery.

Surgery was a breeze and there was no pain that I can recall.

 

[sledog]

I'm taking notes as I have this problem as well

I would suggest you interview a few opthos, and ask a few Qs like: how many have you done? what is your 'success' ration? Where did you go to school, and where was your post--grad training. etc...

 

[temery]

During my terrible period of multile eye surgeries following a detached retina a few years ago, one of the 11 operations I had was a cataract surgery in my troublesome right eye. Not so much that *I* could see better, but so that the surgeon could see into my eyeball better during surgery.

Surgery was a breeze and there was no pain that I can recall.

Were you awake got all surgeries?

 

[7774]

Reminds me of the owner of a restaurant where I tended bar long ago. He taught me a very unorthodox method of clearing wax from your ears, and cautioned that after he did it, he regretted it because he was able to hear his wife all throughout the house and the restaurant.

And he was spot on. I had a headache for the first couple days because I was hearing like Jaime Sommers, and as a bartender in a very busy bar it was more of a curse than a blessing for a while. The sound of the change hitting the cash drawer made me jump.

That's pretty crazy. What was the unorthodox method?

 

[RichZ]

Were you awake got all surgeries?

"Twighlight" level anesthesia. Awake to follow instructions. except for the scleral buckle surgery (a silicone "rubber band" around the eyeball, under the outermost layer.) and the time they screwed up the retrobulbar block and anesthetised my brain.
But the cataract surgery was done with a peribulbar block and I was pretty much wide awake for that one.

 

[dogpause]

I've watched a few cataract surgeries before.

They cut your cornea open like a tin can and peel the flap back. They insert hooks to hold back the iris, then use a drill to carve up your existing lense, vacuuming out the pieces as they go. Then they insert the new lense, take the hooks out, and close the cornea flap. Not much to it.

Most ophthamologists will do 5 or 6 in an afternoon. It's very routine.

Sign me up.

 

[buddy]

Wore eyepatch 1 week per eye, only when sleeping. Guarding against a sleepy eye rub in the middle of the night.
Drops are for healing. I never had any pain.

Never had ANY needles!

You likely had the needle, but were sedated for its insertion and don't remember. They had to use some sort of block to numb the eye and immobilize it. Either retrobulbar or peribulbar block. They usually give you something intravenously, nowadays likely propofol, to knock you out for a minute or so while they do the block.

 

[Kibitzer]

Anyone here have cataract surgery?

Please share you experience.

Thanks

I had it done (right eye) 4 months ago at VA in West Haven. Surgeon was a resident from Yale-New Haven and a grad from Yale Med. School. Some tolerable discomfort for about an hour (prep and surgery). No needles (except IV).

Result: 20-20 in right eye, unnecessary for left eye (20-40). Glasses discarded after 30 years. YAY!

I say go for it!

 

[uconnfan68]

Make 100% sure you know that the result you want is doable. There are pluses and minuses. If you want distance, be prepared for reading glasses. If you sit at a computer for hours on end, maybe that's not right for you. Good luck with your decision and better luck with the outcome.

 

[80shusky]

I'll do it for free. I have no idea what I am doing so you will never be able to see again. Prior to the procedure please give me your logins for the BY so that I can ban @Deepster and @August_West so the rest of us don't have to watch them fight like little girls anymore. I'm also going to turn off the profanity filter. You're welcome Boneyard.
I love you all (including the people I just picked on for no reason at all) and I mean this in the best possible way.

 

[temery]

Sound plan, but we may need @August_West for the anesthesia.

I'll do it for free. I have no idea what I am doing so you will never be able to see again. Prior to the procedure please give me your logins for the BY so that I can ban @Deepster and @August_West so the rest of us don't have to watch them fight like little girls anymore. I'm also going to turn off the profanity filter. You're welcome Boneyard.
I love you all (including the people I just picked on for no reason at all) and I mean this in the best possible way.

 

[August_West]

Sound plan, but we may need @August_West for the anesthesia.

I got your back.

 

[huskiemaniac]

I've watched a few cataract surgeries before.

They cut your cornea open like a tin can and peel the flap back. They insert hooks to hold back the iris, then use a drill to carve up your existing lense, vacuuming out the pieces as they go. Then they insert the new lense, take the hooks out, and close the cornea flap. Not much to it.

Most ophthamologists will do 5 or 6 in an afternoon. It's very routine.

I worked in an OR for a few months last year and they did eyes 1 or 2 days a week and they'd do around 12-15 each day. Very routine and highly successful.

 

[Storrsbred]

You likely had the needle, but were sedated for its insertion and don't remember. They had to use some sort of block to numb the eye and immobilize it. Either retrobulbar or peribulbar block. They usually give you something intravenously, nowadays likely propofol, to knock you out for a minute or so while they do the block.

I am 100% positive I did not have any needles as I was conscious the entire procedure. Prior to the day(s) of the operation, in the docs office , I was told no needles. Drops were used to numb. My eyes were not immobilized as I had to look in specific directions at command so the doc could orient the lens.

 

[Earls & Kings]

I'm still taking the drops for the second surgery in four weeks. One of the three drops burns like a b every time, one burns some of the time and the last one is benign. I was told that the order you take them doesn't matter, so I use the burners first and mitigate their impact with the benign one.

I can see every detail on the leaves in my back yard but it hasn't helped me see the keys on my computerwithout "readers".

My doc told me that the lenses they put in may not be mt exact prescription because they are pre-fabricated to cover the range of site without nailing every possible prescription in between. So they should get everyone closer to 20:20... but some will still need glasses.

 

[8893]

That's pretty crazy. What was the unorthodox method?

It was basically taking the bulb-shaped ear syringe from a store-bought ear wax removal kit and using it directly contrary to the warnings and instructions. Instead of gently flushing the ear with warm water, you fill the syringe with hot water and blast it with as much force as possible directly in the canal. You'll know you've got it when a knuckle-sized chunk of wax falls out.

And you will realize within a few hours that the wax is the body's way of protecting the ear drum, and you just removed it.

 

[Palatine]

Anyone here have cataract surgery?

Please share you experience.

Thanks

Piece of cake, both eyes, one at a time about a week apart.

They twilighted me, not knock outed, literally zero pain. Took about twenty minutes, wife drove me home. Worn clear plastic eye cover for about a day.

Results were immediate and AWESOME. Life changing.

 

[temery]

Piece of cake, both eyes, one at a time about a week apart.

They twilighted me, not knock outed, literally zero pain. Took about twenty minutes, wife drove me home. Worn clear plastic eye cover for about a day.

Results were immediate and AWESOME. Life changing.

You make it sound like science fiction.

 

[temery]

Amazon.com: ear wax vacuum

It was basically taking the bulb-shaped ear syringe from a store-bought ear wax removal kit and using it directly contrary to the warnings and instructions. Instead of gently flushing the ear with warm water, you fill the syringe with hot water and blast it with as much force as possible directly in the canal. You'll know you've got it when a knuckle-sized chunk of wax falls out.

And you will realize within a few hours that the wax is the body's way of protecting the ear drum, and you just removed it.

 

[Palatine]

You make it sound like science fiction.

That was a absolutely my experience. One of the best things I have ever done.

BTW, my mother in law had previously had the same procedure. Post operation she claims that she sees colors much better.

 

[August_West]

It was basically taking the bulb-shaped ear syringe from a store-bought ear wax removal kit and using it directly contrary to the warnings and instructions. Instead of gently flushing the ear with warm water, you fill the syringe with hot water and blast it with as much force as possible directly in the canal. You'll know you've got it when a knuckle-sized chunk of wax falls out.

And you will realize within a few hours that the wax is the body's way of protecting the ear drum, and you just removed it.

I have to go to a professional about every 18 months because the high sound pressure levels I put myself through 100 plus nights a year for decades causes wax buildup like you wouldn't believe. The first time I went about 10 years ago the amount of wax made a thud in the metal basin they used to catch it. It was almost orgasmic as it felt like some just took cotton balls out of my ears and I could hear again for the first time. I'm too old to change now but I should wear the good ear plugs that reduce decibels but still let full frequency range through. As it is I'm totally deaf now to certain frequencies. When I play with younger people right now I implore them to wear protection, they have great options now I didn't have back then.

 

[8893]

I have to go to a professional about every 18 months because the high sound pressure levels I put myself through 100 plus nights a year for decades causes wax buildup like you wouldn't believe. The first time I went about 10 years ago the amount of wax made a thud in the metal basin they used to catch it. It was almost orgasmic as it felt like some just took cotton balls out of my ears and I could hear again for the first time. I'm too old to change now but I should wear the good ear plugs that reduce decibels but still let full frequency range through. As it is I'm totally deaf now to certain frequencies. When I play with younger people right now I implore them to wear protection, they have great options now I didn't have back then.

I've spent about half as much time standing on the other side of the amps and these have changed my life, as well the lives of all the other live music fan friends to whom I've given them since:

Etymotic Research | ETY•Plugs® Earplugs

 

[temery]

The only difference is Trump will be screwing the country instead of maids and interns.

nope - he heard it from Hilary who read it while curled up on her couch at her home with her rented dog while Bill was sitting at his desk calling Iran on the only cell phone Hillary ever used looking for more money while getting pleased by their Sandinista maid who has full security clearance

 

[August_West]

I've spent about half as much time standing on the other side of the amps and these have changed my life, as well the lives of all the other live music fan friends to whom I've given them since:

Etymotic Research | ETY•Plugs® Earplugs

I've had some good ones including those.

Problem is I constantly lose them. So I stopped buying them. Expensive

I also lose guitar stands and slides to the number of 10os. I stopped buying guitar stands,unfortunately slides I have to still buy. I don't know why but those 3 items I can't hold on to.

 

[8893]

I've had some good ones including those.

Problem is I constantly lose them. So I stopped buying them. Expensive

I also lose guitar stands and slides to the number of 10os. I stopped buying guitar stands,unfortunately slides I have to still buy. I don't know why but those 3 items I can't hold on to.

The benefit of the Etymotics is that they are *close* to the high-fidelity of custom ear plugs that are literally 10 to 100 times more expensive, but they only cost around $10. I have two pair and I always have one of them in my car so I am never without them. At $10 per you can buy in bulk and it's still a good deal even if you lose them frequently. They are light years better than the foam ear plugs, and they work. I never realized how physically draining the loud noise levels of live shows was until I started using these. When I take them out at the end of a show I feel energized, instead of dulled and worn out.

 

[August_West]

The benefit of the Etymotics is that they are *close* to the high-fidelity of custom ear plugs that are literally 10 to 100 times more expensive, but they only cost around $10. I have two pair and I always have one of them in my car so I am never without them. At $10 per you can buy in bulk and it's still a good deal even if you lose them frequently. They are light years better than the foam ear plugs, and they work. I never realized how physically draining the loud noise levels of live shows was until I started using these. When I take them out at the end of a show I feel energized, instead of dulled and worn out.

I once got knocked over from a high frequency note comimg out of a Hammond organ Leslie combo. It pierced my eardrum and my equilibrium was compromised and I lost my balance.
Ear fatigue is real

 

[Phorcys]

Sound plan, but we may need @August_West for the anesthesia.

I got your back.

Rumor has is that the tryptophan in turkey puts most people to sleep pretty quickly.

But, Dr. August West already knows that.

Happy Thanksgiving, a little early.