Cataracts and why this is annoying.

[NotHardUp1]

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

You're a bit wrong here. Rareboy admitted that he was using the term in a slang manner, just as in my example with "nuke" to mean microwaving food.

Laser surgery on the eye is undoubtedly termed "LASIK" by hundreds of thousands of patients.

Hardly a business to be calling them fools, or me for pointing out the obvious. This isn't a debate or somem moral point. We're just chatting on JUB about a member's eye surgery, not publishing a medical compendium and misleading the masses.

Get some perspective, man.

 

[rareboy]

That isn't LASIK.

It is at the Lasik Centre so I imagine that we are all just lazy here in Canada and refer to it that way. And I am getting some reshaping done when they do the cataracts. Hope that is okay with you.

I can send you the monograph from the Lasik Centre describing the procedures. By the ay, I am not opting for the $4500 Presbyopia procedure per eye.

 

[EJMichaels]

LASIK and cataracts are not linked....

In practice they are, because the doctors suggest it to free you from glasses after you get rid of the cloudy lens. In my case, it wouldn't have helped, but many people opt to get both procedures.

 

[NotHardUp1]

In practice they are, because the doctors suggest it to free you from glasses after you get rid of the cloudy lens. In my case, it wouldn't have helped, but many people opt to get both procedures.

That caused a double-take, as I guess my slight dyslexia cause me to see "doctors suggest it to you free . . . "

 

[rareboy]

In practice they are, because the doctors suggest it to free you from glasses after you get rid of the cloudy lens. In my case, it wouldn't have helped, but many people opt to get both procedures.

This is exactly my case.

And without going into too much detail...can advise pigface that if he has some issue with the confluence of cataract and LASIK, he really should speak to my surgeon...who laughed when I told him.

 

[Kulindahr]

I just got told I have cataracts last month. So far the only thing I've noticed that's different about my vision is that I see less well in lower light levels. The worst part is that it has reduced the number of stars I can see at night; looking at Jupiter as it was close to the moon a while back I could only see a half dozen stars within five degrees of the moon while others were seeing scores.

 

[rareboy]

Night vision is an issue and even our house lighting seems dimmer and duller.

I am looking forward to the improvement.

 

[Vannie]

You all need to stop masturbating.

 

[peeonme]

The Doc told me that I needed cataract surgery and I informed him that the ones I have were just fine...

 

[gsdx]

You all need to stop masturbating.

Can I do it 'til I need glasses?

 

[rareboy]

Can I do it 'til I need glasses?

Well there's my problem.

I've had glasses since I was 10 years old.

 

[Kulindahr]

Well there's my problem.

I've had glasses since I was 10 years old.

I had glasses in grade school and junior high, but at a checkup in eighth grade the doc said I didn't need them any more. Then about the same time I inherited this house I started needing them again.