Should I have Cataract Surgery?

Im a 48 yr male who 2 months ago had cataract surgery in both eyes. I chose Crystalens which is the latest greatest available. The surgery was covered by insurance but I had to pay $2,500.00 per lens out of pocket. The lens that were covered by my insurance were technology from 25 years ago and was strongly advised to go with Crystlens. I can see clearly and have had no problems....Best of Luck....

I would think that people whose cataract surgery went badly probably don't read this forum.

The attorney my wife works for and my mother both had cataract surgery a few years ago and both had excellent results. I have some astigmatism that I only notice when I'm shooting rifle with an RDS.

No surgery is without risks. My oral surgeon said it was too risky at my age to have my wisdom tooth pulled. I think I was 48 when he said that. If it was me, I'd wait until the symptoms made the surgery a necessity. I'm a big chicken.

DonDiego is well over 48. Nonetheless, he had a wisdom tooth pulled about 3 months ago.

When he met the dental surgeon for a preliminary consultation, DonDiego shared snidely333's concern with risk. He asked the doctor what were the chances for survival. The doctor seemed somewhat taken aback; after a pause he responded that he hadn't lost a patient, . . . yet.

That answer was sufficiently comforting, so DonDiego scheduled the surgery.


DonDiego does need cataract surgery also. Until this thread he hadn't realized that they'd have to remove his lenses and replace them with plastic; DonDiego finds that an unpleasant prospect. What'll they wanna remove next?
He'll need to give this some more thought.

My oral surgeon said that my wisdom tooth is about 2mm away from causing me a lot of pain. It could stay 2mm away and, well... basically, he said there's a good chance I'd die before it moved the 2mm so we should just wait it out. My oral surgeon also said he just pulled the wisdom tooth on an old guy in his 70s and he survived so I might, too if I needed the operation when I get older.

There is no need for snidely333 to defend his decision not to have oral surgery; no one is calling snidely333 a pussy-wussy.
In fact, DonDiego doubts anyone even thinks snidely333 is a pussy-wussy, . . . pr'bly.

I'm with Snidely. At the behest of the orthodontist, I had all four pulled at about age 14 or so. The first was done by our regular dentist, took 4 hours and a lot of misery. After that, my super thrifty mom surprisingly gave the go ahead for a real oral surgeon to do the other three...easy breezy in comparison.

But that's beside my point, that I believe the wisdom tooth gig is a racket. I mean, almost nobody has pain in advance of being informed their wisdom teeth need to go. You just go on faith that the dentist is right.

The Dr. was quite adamant that the risk of me dying on the operating table (at my age) vastly outweighed the benefit of the surgery.

It was an easy decision to concur with him. I also doubt anyone thinks me a pussy-wussy.

. . . pr'bly.

I also had cataract surgery, and also went with the Crystalens options. Absolutely amazing. My cataracts were growing in my eyes for more than 20 years from a combination of diabetes and sports injuries (I boxed when I was a teenager and got hit in the face too many times).

Finally got the cataracts done after my kidney transplant. When I had the first eye done (they were done several months apart) and my wife took the bandage off the next morning the first words out of my mouth were: "you're beautiful." Honestly, it was the first time I could see her.

I immediately rushed down to DMV and with only one good eye I had my license changed so I wasn't required to have "corrective lenses."

Then the second eye was done.

It's a shame that insurance doesnt cover this improved lens which actually focuses like a natural eye so you can see close and far. "Old style" lenses make you choose what vision you want and then you wear glasses to either read or see far away.

The doc who did my eyes also did Ronald Reagan. He told me that Reagan had the old style lenses -- but in one eye for seeing far, and in the other eye for seeing close so that he didnt need glasses.