Hi

I am a 39 years old male. 6 years ago I was in a car accident and my
left eye got hit, I had surgery and the eye recovered nicely beside for
some vision loss like 20/30, I couldn't see from that eye for like 2
days after surgery.
My eye was never cut it was just hit hard by the air bag which deployed
upon impact and shattered my sunglasses which themselves cut my eyelid
and hit my left eye violently.
I returned to my driving job for the following 6 years with no trouble.
I was diagnosed with a cloudy cataract about 2 months ago after I had
failed a physical at work for a 20/50 left eye.
My prescription was just due and my ophtamologist got me a new contact
lens in my left eye which corrected it at 20/30 minus. I passed the
physical. My ophtalmologist recommended cataract surgery as he said it
would get worse.
So I had it done yesterday after freaking out for 2 weeks. It was
really easy on my end beside for the 3 tries it took to insert the IV
in my veins.
I don't recall much beside the weird lights in front me (Ultra sounds
breaking my lens I believe.), the surgeon asking me how I felt before
he was going to start and then him again telling me I was done and all
went well.
I am amazed how potent their drugs are, they told me it was local
anestesia but I feel I took a nap in there, don't recall much.

Anyway now the goal of this email to get post surgery comments from
patients that had it done or Doctors as I know some frequent this
board.
My post surgery vision in my left eye is now 20/25 minus 2 uncorrected
opposed to 20/30 minus corrected before, I was at the surgeon's office
this AM, for my first post surgery visit, he checked everything as
being fine to see me in a week.
I can see crisp details on landscapes like in trees expecially and
lighted areas like a car head lights (The inside of the light like the
bulb inside), it's kind of amazing really and it's only the day after
surgery.

Now what concerns me:

-I feel somewhat that I have lost the sense of distances between me and
objects, like when you put those stupid 3D glasses to see a Hitchcock
movie. It's not that bad of course but it's a faint feeling of that.
-I see some floaters, when my wife was driving me back home yesterday I
thought twice there was a fly in the car. I saw some floaters today
too, not too many but they are here.
-I know my very close vision is gone in that eye, the doc warned me of
that but it's still very blurry like right now typing on the PC even
with the fonts sets on bigger.

I figure I am being very impatient, surgery was only 30 hours ago, what
was your experience for patients that had it done? And what do Doctor's
think here of the 3 conditions listed above?

I will ask more questions to my doc next week for my second visit. I am
pleased with his service but I just wish he would talk more, it's an in
and out kind of place from the receptionnist all the way to him.

Thanks to all and sorry for being so long but there was a fly bothering
me the whole time I was typing and I could never catch it .(Just
kidding guys, humor is the best remedy! ;-).

Thanks a lot

Patrick
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