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Eye Lens Replacement

There's another option, which is to have laser surgery on one eye to correct reading vision in that eye at the expense of distance vision, then your other eye is left alone to take care of distance. The brain sorts it all out when you have both eyes open, but you do lose some depth perception.

I've been thinking about lens replacement for a while. I didn't realize it had gotten so cheap since the last time I looked into it. I had the impression it was $10,000 per eye. They had just come out with multifocal lenses at the time. I've been living with reading glasses for amost 10 years now, and it's becoming a bigger problem when working on the bikes/cars as my lenses get worse, especially when tilting your head. The things holding me back are:

- spending the money and still needing reading classses, or worse, distance glasses
- having problems with my body rejecting the artificial lens
- requiring eye drops all the time
- I already have the halo issue at night, if it became worse I wouldn't be able to drive at night, especially in the rain
 
Relax said:
There's another option, which is to have laser surgery on one eye to correct reading vision in that eye at the expense of distance vision, then your other eye is left alone to take care of distance. The brain sorts it all out when you have both eyes open, but you do lose some depth perception.
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When I had my lasik done in 2005 I had better than 20/20 vision but over the years my right eye has become worse for far vision. I went back to Lasik in 2015 about fixing that one eye and after the tests they recommended I leave it as is where my right eye is better at seeing close while it's the opposite with the other eye so I'm kinda there already but the close-up vision is deteriorating to the point the right eye is not good enough anymore.

Btw, the person I refer to had her lens replacement done in 2005 and no issues since then.
 
LBV said:
When I had my lasik done in 2005 I had better than 20/20 vision but over the years my right eye has become worse for far vision. I went back to Lasik in 2015 about fixing that one eye and after the tests they recommended I leave it as is where my right eye is better at seeing close while it's the opposite with the other eye so I'm kinda there already but the close-up vision is deteriorating to the point the right eye is not good enough anymore.

Btw, the person I refer to had her lens replacement done in 2005 and no issues since then.
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Where did she get it done, and which doctor? There's so many out there it's hard to decide, but apparently it makes a difference, just like anything else.
 
make sure the doctor you want does the operation. you don't want to be the guinea pig for the new guy!
 
So I got my assessment done yesterday and I'm a candidate. However, they suggested I wait until I'm 60 as my close-up vision is still regressing. The lenses are custom made to my eyes and my RX so that makes sense. I did the same thing for my Lasik back in 2005 - waited until my RX flat-lined then did it and here I am 16 years later still close to 20/20 far vision.

They said my close-up RX is 0.50 on 1 eye and 0.75 on the other so I'm still pretty good actually there.

Overall, I felt more confidant than ever after the visit but will still have some years to sit on the decision.
 
LBV said:
So I got my assessment done yesterday and I'm a candidate. However, they suggested I wait until I'm 60 as my close-up vision is still regressing. The lenses are custom made to my eyes and my RX so that makes sense. I did the same thing for my Lasik back in 2005 - waited until my RX flat-lined then did it and here I am 16 years later still close to 20/20 far vision.

They said my close-up RX is 0.50 on 1 eye and 0.75 on the other so I'm still pretty good actually there.

Overall, I felt more confidant than ever after the visit but will still have some years to sit on the decision.
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Why does it matter if your reading vision is still deteriorating? Isn't that related to the hardening of your lens, which they'd be replacing?
 
Relax said:
Why does it matter if your reading vision is still deteriorating? Isn't that related to the hardening of your lens, which they'd be replacing?
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Good question but I'm assuming no, there's more to it. Perhaps the cornea comes into play and/or other parts of the eye?? I'm about 50/50 on doing it now anyways so by the time I'm 60 I may be more towards the "do it" side. Or not.
 
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