I have a Symfony lens in my right eye implanted in 2016 but I can't stand the side effects. My left eye is due up soon so I am planning to get a monofocal for distance. Saw the Eyehance is now available in North America and wondering if anyone can share their experience with it so far. I know it's a mix between a monofocal and multifocal so I want to see the side effects. Thanks to anyone that can share from insight. Cheers
anyone?
Common LOL no-one has the Eyehance??
What side effects do you see? There should be minimal side effects with eyhance. There are no rings. There should be some starburst and halos. I would expect intermediate/near vision to be less clearer than symfony so i would probably set it for -1 in both eyes and wear glasses.
I have a monofocal Tecnis ZCB00 which in theory should be even less prone to PD than Eyehence. But I'm expirencing extreme starburst, halos, glare, perhaps as severe as in case of your Symphony. So, I'd recommend to stay away from Tecnis since you already have their product in one eye that sucks. I'd try to go with the Sofport LI61AO.
There is another thread here on this lens that has quite a few responses. I have not found a good way to do a search here, and we cannot post links, so I hope you can find it by looking for a post with this title:
"Why isn’t anyone talking about Technis Eyhance?"
Bumping this one last time. I did see the other thread and just saw the most recent patient review from Eduard (thank you).
I done my cateract surgery with J&J one piece lens 6 months ago. I couldn't believed I got glares and I done renital surgery in 2019. I had power -2.25 caused me see things blurries, wavy lines and fade. People said monofolcal lens should be no side effect. I am going to replace this lens coming Friday and I selected Eyhance and I am getting worry about side effect. Keep searching...
I have Tecnis Eyhance in both eyes. I'm seeing 20/20 for distance. My vision inside 2-3 feet is not as clear as I would like but may be better than it would have been with a standard monofocal IOL. My doctor did a slight mini-mono on my right eye but I still can't read my phone consistently.
I think the goal for Tecnis Eyehance is to eventually become the monofocal replacement. Only time will tell. The goal is to have all the advantages of a monofocal, very low dysphtopsias, no light splitting, same contrast sensitivity and so forth, yet gives just the slightest boost to close vision. And I mean slight, probably not even 1 line of improvement. Again only time will tell.
In Canada they will have to make the Eyhance lens available at the same price of the current Tecnis monofocal if they expect to use it to replace the monofocal. If there are any issues at all with it, I would expect pushback from the surgeons/patients that want a pure monofocal with no trick optical side effects. Those wanting a pure monofocal will just select the AcrySof IQ lens.
I heard the cost was only 5% more. Then someone else (here) said the price was 30% more. Don't know what to believe. I've been waiting for my Provincial Health System to offer the lens (I've been told there's a good chance they will offer it sometime this year). But if the price is 30% more I don't see it happening. And I may be waiting for nothing. But I'd much rather get the surgery done for free (or close to it at least) rather than $3800. Obviously. . As for issues, I've heard more than one surgeon say they cannot thing of any reason they would ever choose to use the Tecnis 1 anymore rather than Eyhance. Some say, even for pilots. And I think Eyhance has already taken over the Indian market.
I guess call me a little skeptical. I recall reading one of those testimonial reports from a surgeon that was on the preferred list to get the first Vivity lenses to use. He made a similar comment. Something like "This lens is so good, that there is no longer any need for the monofocal lens..."
"no trick optical side effects"
LAL. What can I say. I wish I was so witty.
I had the Eyehance put in Thursday. I can't review it yet because I've been told by the doctor to give it a month. She said my vision was "objectively terrific", but we must have different criteria. The day after the surgery my vision was smeared, very blurry at all distances, but like looking through grease within ten feet, halos, blinding sparkles off chrome...and I couldn't read anything at any difference unless in a dark room with the characters separated. It's Monday now and some things are vastly improved. The smearing is minimal. The blur seems to be object and angle dependent. The "grease" is reduced to within four feet. HOWEVER, computer screens are an issue. I'm using my television as a monitor and sitting within three feet if it. I don't know if a +2.5 Rx would fix this, because only had one eye done. We are waiting for my eye to heal before next steps.
Hello I had the Technis Eyehance IOL implanted on removal of a cataract in right eye last Thursday 3 days ago .My cataract was very dense and my vision in both my eyes very poor because of cataracts .I had a fantastic surgeon he is a teaching Professor and he set my IOL to +19 which basically put my eye back to the sight I had prior to developing cataracts as I am neither long nor short sighted .I had IV sedation and an eye nerve/ muscle block as my surgeon requires the eye being operated on to be completely immobile. The surgery only took 15 minutes and although I remember some of it I was in a twilight world so it's all a bit hazy .Because I had an eye block as the block wore off I had horrible double vision which was a bizarre experience two completely different images that slowly over 6 hours came together to make one image I was freaking out .BUT the result is amazing I had no blur,no pain and just a minimal scratchy feeling on and off .Once my vision stabilised I could see the individual leaves on trees hundreds of feet away, the contrast depth of vision and colours are surreal it's like Ultra ,Ultra high definition unbelievable. I have some flickering on the periphery that comes and goes but it's to be expected and everyone is different so no two people will get the same result but I am ecstatic with the vision I now have .I am writing this on my phone my surgeon said that if I was lucky I would have usable close vision too which I have .So I have amazing long and intermediate vision and usable near vision .I will need readers for reading tiny print like ingredient lists on packages and things like that but because the Eyehance is an extended depth of field IOL there is no noticable transition between distances which can be a big problem with multifocal lenses .I do see some starbursts and halos around lights but not anything like I had with the cataract. I know that its early days and that my vision may not remain quite as good as the lens settles into the eye but I am ecstatic with the result and the Eyehance lens .
just from reading forums like this on the intenet people seem to be more happy with Eyhance and have less problems then all the other lens like the EDOF and mulitfocal. The only thing some people dont like about Eyhance is the near or reading vision is not good withoutt glaases but its a monofocal so it never claimed to deliver reading vision. It has monofocal quality vision but delivers a little bit more nearer vision then the other monofocals
Keep in mind the Eyhance is not really a monofocal lens. It is an EDOF that is just a bit short of being called an EDOF. I think the cutoff to qualify as an EDOF is an extension of 0.5 D. The Eyhance is about 0.35 to 0.40 D, just short of being technically qualified as an EDOF. And also keep in mind that a spherical lens which is sold at a discount to an aspherical lens has about 0.25 D of extended focus. The aspherical lens brings all the light to a single point of focus and technically has 0.0 D of extended depth of field.
I have Eyhance set to intermediate vision in the left eye, target -1.25D. The right eye is natural with -7.5 SPH -0.75 CYL contact lens. I can see computer screen very well with the Eyhance eye, better than with the natural eye. For the first few days I was stunned with the quality of vision. However, this may be due to the developing presbyopia (I am 42) and imperfect correction for astigmatism (I had difficulties picking the best contact lenses, but I see 20/20 in them). Contrast is better in the Eyhance eye. I also like the colors more. The vision in the natural eye has a yellow tint, and white in the Eyhance eye is whiter. . The distance of perfect vision in the Eyhance eye is about 50 cm. This is convenient for computer screen, cell phone screen, and anything you may hold in your hand or at a similar distance. I don’t need nearer vision, but I need -1.5D glasses to get the best vision for distance, such as to read traffic signs with both eyes when driving. Given that I have the other eye, I often prefer not wearing glasses at all when going out during the day. I feel that at night glasses make a more substantial difference. . If I move my head a few centimeters off the perfect distance from the computer screen I immediately see the difference. That is, there is no range of distances where I get the best vision, it’s a point. However, the vision is still very good (and yet not the same as the best) over a range of distances. . I think that -1.25D target is too large for the intermediate vision. I don’t know how much the target was missed. I need glasses -1.5D to see best at distance, but it’s common for glasses to be stronger than contacts, so perhaps my IOL is set to -1.25D after all. I feel I need to sit too close to the computer screen, especially when having multiple computer screens. If you need computer vision, I’d consider smaller targets, such as -1D or -0.75D. Say, if I put on glasses -1D instead of -1.5D, I still see the computer screen well although I need to sit further, maybe too far away, and I see the phone screen well except I need to extend my hand to read fine print. . I don’t see any artifacts when looking at objects in focus. If I don’t wear glasses at night then surely I see halos because the left eye needs correction for distance. The halos have an interesting ring structure, but it’s subtle. That’s the only artifact I notice. Overall, I am totally happy with the Eyhance.
I agree - I successfully use -1.0D glasses for computer vision which is about 30" to my monitor screen. -1.0D works both for my right eye which has a monofocal IOL as well as my left eye which still has the natural lens.