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I’ve posted before about my retina re-attachment surgery, which turned out to be much more major than cataract surgery. Rather to my surprise, it was ‘day surgery’, though with 2 surgeons, and an intern who did some of the easy bits, plus an anesthetist and 2 nurses. My guess now is that they chose to avoid a general anesthetic because of the potential problems with older people, plus the cost of keeping people overnight.

I am still recovering (14th November surgery), and the difficult issue seems to be where the multiple local anesthetics (24 of them, all painful) went in. I am confident that things are improving, and I read that it can take 6 months for things to come totally right. The surgeon told me that they whipped out a cataract in passing, as it would have given trouble within a year or two. I don’t think that’s part of the problem now, but who knows?

I am grateful to have saved my sight, and I think that I am on track for full recovery. I hope that you are too!
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Disgusted, just went online and put in "cateract surgery choices" and the Harvard article popped up. The whole article! So I downloaded it. Got stuff I don't want but article intact. That is so weird when you copy the link you get that message.
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disgustedtoo Jan 2021
I certainly wasn't suggesting others not try, but, I selected the link posted below again just now and the result was the same. Three sentences after the "Why you may need cataract surgery", a box with this pops up, blocking access:

To continue reading this article, you must log in.

That said, I followed up with your current post suggestion, entering "cateract surgery choices" and yes, the top "hit" was this article and I was able to see the whole thing. I even tried going back and forth (<- then ->) and it was still okay. I then redid the search, selected the link and sure enough, the block happened. Some sites will allow X number of viewings, and then require you log in, so it's possible that's what is at play here. Otherwise, I have no idea why it doesn't work.

To others, if the link works for you, great. If not, do the search and select it. Other reputable sites also provide information, if you can't access this one.
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To anyone thinking about cataract surgery, I just underwent cataract surgery on my right eye and left eye. On my left eye, I had an after effect called "Ptosis," which is a drooping of my left eyelid. No vision disturbances. See my opthamologist in four months. If revision surgery is needed, my opthamologist does not perform it. That would be done by a plastic surgeon.
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Forget about cataract surgery...not a priority. The brain disease takes their sight away. My mother had glaucoma & wet macula...& now won’t let me put in her eye drops...she gets violent & screams that they are poison & drops will make her blind...no matter what kind of reasoning I explain...don’t matter....she don’t believe anyone...Hugs 🤗
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friend is taking fil for a checkup... his eye is physically drooping... he had catatract surgery a while go... so now they have to sew or stitch up the drooping under eye part.

He is having infection issues on the under eye portion.... :(
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