Question:
I don't think it's a good idea to mess with your corneas at this point.
Glasses should provide excellent vision after you get that capsulotomy
done. Do you have a problem with wearing glasses?
Answer:
Medicare will pay for correction of refractive error if it is a
surgically induced problem; after cataract surgery, surgical astigmatic
correction is a covered procedure.
some
research is beginning to show that it has some application in
astigmatism, though no what it was "designed" for. Sounds a bit
experimental to me, and while "statistics are for populations, nor for
individuals" I'm getting a bit weary of coming out on the wrong side
of the statistics.
Absolutely no problem with wearing glasses, up through trifocals.
Neither my cataract surgery (nor any now follow on) were specified by
me to make me glasses free. Can, do and expect to continue to wear
glasses, up through trifocals PRN, when this is all over - in a year
or so.
But, since this is your department, I repeat what this latest second
opinion eyedoc (I don't do glasses, I don't do contacts, I do eyes)
said, i.e. that he doesn't believe that astigmatism above 2.00 can be
corrected effectively with glasses. As a result of the LRI, mine is
now 3.00 or 2.75, depending on who takes it when.
