hi all, brief history - i have had a congenital cataract removed yesterday. the reason for this is that i have gradually gone from some shape vision to blind and my eye has started moving toward my nose (squint). where i could see lights, my vision was very doubled- not only below and to the right in one eye but also tilted diagonally. i expected a bit of double vision after surgery but wrongly assumed that some was due to odd refraction through the cataract lens. I am somewhat panicked this morning as the double vision remains the same. i am terrified now because my job (for which i have three days off) involves a 40 minute commute by car, and i have just read that driving with double vision is illegal???? is this normal? Can i expect it to correct? My first followup isnt for two weeks.
Many surgeons do the first follow up examination 24 hours after the surgery. I would suggest getting an appointment as soon as you can, rather than wait two weeks. If the lens is misplaced for example, I believe the soon it is adjusted the better.
so ive had a day with it now, lots of time to so research. it seems to match strabismus - anyone else had a cataract removed only to find that their eye had completely shifted through lack of stimuli? it seems to point too far to the left and also seems to have rotated anticlockwise
Hi Matt,
I’ve wondered this as well. I got my right eye done 4 months after getting a cataract as it got bad quickly, and my left eye slowly got bad over 5 years and just got it done in January 2021. I experience ghosting, light sensitivity in my peripheral, my eyelid feels super heavy all the time. I wonder if because I had the cataract for 5 years, my right eye was over compensating and the muscles or whatever in my left eye have gotten weaker and causing me some issues. My surgeon said its just dry eye, but it feels like an easy excuse to just get me out of his chair. I went to a dry eye doctor who said I have ocular rosacea and that I need IPL treatments ($350 per X 4). I went to an occuplastic surgeon after to get his opinion and he said theres nothing he can do to help me and also remember that the dry eye doctor makes good money off IPL and he doesnt think I need that either. UGH
A 2 week follow up doesnt seem normal. You should be seeing him between 1-2 days after your surgery. I would insist that you want to see him ASAP.