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New Tue 4 Jun 19 21:08 
 Cataract Operation - Fullchat
This morning I had a cataract operation in my right eye. In and out in 2.5 hours. All appeared to go smoothly.
I know its only just a few hours after the operation but just a couple of questions to anyone who may have also had the operation.
I appear to be seeing warm white through my 'good' eye and daylight white from my refurbished eye.
Looking at ceiling lights I'm seeing light rings.
At this point I don't seem to have gained Million Dollar Man vision in the eye :)) although there is improvement and the blurring gone. When the eye settles down does the vision improve even more?
Any experiences welcome.
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New Tue 4 Jun 19 22:13 
 Cataract Operation - Kevin
Did you go for a multifocal lense?

Mrs K had both eyes done about 4 or 5 years ago. It was a choice of fixed or multifocal lenses and she decided to go with multifocal.
The advantage was that she would not require specs for either reading or longer distances. The disadvantages were that she would see rings around bright lights in high contrast situations, like oncoming headlights, and that in very low contrast situations, like reading a menu in a dimly lit restaurant, she might need help.
She didn't experience any different colour perception between the ops.
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New Tue 4 Jun 19 22:22 
 Cataract Operation - Duncan
I had mine done about 5? years ago, on the NHS. The procedures were about six weeks apart. I had fixed (is that the word?) lenses, with maximum strength for distance.

The eye was covered with pad and a protective cover the day of the surgery. When I took the pad off the next morning - wow!

After a few months a film started to develop on each eye. I went back into hospital where they zapped the film off. It doesn't grow back.

I thought it was absolutely brilliant - in every sense.
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New Wed 5 Jun 19 09:36 
 Cataract Operation - Fullchat
Did you go for a multifocal lense?

Do you know I wasn't asked. Went through the pre op examination around 8 weeks ago and then the procedure yesterday.
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New Wed 5 Jun 19 10:02 
 Cataract Operation - sherlock47
>>I appear to be seeing warm white through my 'good' eye and daylight white from my refurbished eye. <<

Removal of the cataract allows more ' blue ' light (that was previously absorbed by the cloudy lens) to reach the retina. The fact that the other eye is perceiving 'warm white' is probably an indication that at some time in the future a cataract may develop :(

I have seen it said somewhere that even a 'good' clear lens is also effective at reducing blue/UV wavelengths which can damage the retina.

Some artists have historically developed a blue period where they appear to overcompensate for failing of blue vision by accentuating colors in their work.

PS Not a qualified opinion - someone on here will know better and may choose to correct?

Last edited by: sherlock47 on Wed 5 Jun 19 at 10:04
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New Wed 5 Jun 19 10:06 
 Cataract Operation - Zero

>> Some artists have historically developed a blue period where they appear to overcompensate for failing
>> of blue vision by accentuating colors in their work.


I'm not sure that Piccasso's blue period can be attributed to cataracts, A shed load of other stuff, but not cataracts.
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New Wed 5 Jun 19 10:24 
 Cataract Operation - sherlock47
>>>'m not sure that Piccasso's blue period can be attributed to cataracts,<<<

which is why I purposely did not give him as an example!
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New Wed 5 Jun 19 10:27 
 Cataract Operation - CGNorwich
The change in style of the later works of Claude Monet are often attributed to his cataracts.
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New Wed 5 Jun 19 10:09 
 Cataract Operation - Zero
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>> the cloudy lens) to reach the retina. The fact that the other eye is perceiving
>> 'warm white' is probably an indication that at some time in the future a cataract
>> may develop :(

Genuine question, is it ever known as happening in one eye only or is it a given the same will develop in both eyes?

Interested as I will need this sorted within the next 6 years, one eye is developing slightly more than the other, but both are affected
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New Wed 5 Jun 19 22:17 
 Cataract Operation - Aretas
I had my first cataract removed 8 years ago. The "new" eye then showed much brighter white than the old eye.
I had the other eye done only a few weeks ago. Strangely, this eye, after the operation, showed brighter white than the previously repaired eye.
Having had both eyes done I expected them to see the same bright white.
I queried this and was told that the first lens fitted will have slowly darkened. Currently this is of no consequence. However, if it deteriorates too much a simple squirt with a laser will solve it.
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New Fri 7 Jun 19 18:23 
 Cataract Operation - busbee
Unequal eyes brightness.

My specialist informs me that at least 25-30% of cataract operations will later get a hazing of the lens pocket behind the [front] of the eye.

So that could account for the unequal brightness of your two eyes.

sherlock47: I am a bit surprised to read that the cloudy lens increases the amount of blue light. Blue light from clouding ??? Surely not.

A little story: Before my cataracts were corrected, someone bought me a nice green pullover. After the operation, I saw it was blue. Yellow and blue mixed additively produces green.
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New Fri 7 Jun 19 19:27 
 Cataract Operation - sherlock47
busbee - I posted

"Removal of the cataract allows more ' blue ' light (that was previously absorbed by the cloudy lens) to reach the retina. "


How did you reach your understanding? :)


PS I am without lens in my left eye due to injury many years ago - the biggest surprise was the ability to see 'black UV lamps'
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New Sat 8 Jun 19 14:10 
 Cataract Operation - busbee
More blue:
I thought you were suggesting that only blue was enhanced, whereas my expectation would be for all the colours to look brighter if lens cloudiness was removed. I was unaware of your special interested in blue.
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New Sat 8 Jun 19 17:52 
 Cataract Operation - Dulwich Estate II
" I was unaware of your special interested in blue"

I remember the Joni Mitchell album well :-)

jonimitchell.com/music/album.cfm?id=5
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