Hello
I’m from Brazil, recently I went to renew my drivers license and I failed the eye test, well I answer everything they ask me to look inside a very old
machine, I suppose from the 1970s. I could answer everything except by a tiny letter that the doctor want me to see, she block my left and and want me to see it only with my right eye (which is my worse eye). I could not see so she not approved me.
Well not to mention the system here is basically a mafia the motor vehicle authority forces you to go to one of their “affiliated clinics“ and pay 20 dollars to make a 5 minute test in a 50 years old machine (the doctor there was a pediatrician). Anyway, now that I failed I have to pay more 10 dollars and take a declaration of vision acuity, I visited two ophthalmologist nobody wanted to give me this declaration.
Now comes my problem - the first ophthalmologist said I got cataracts in the left eyes, he said he doesn’t understand how I get it and it’s too little to make a surgery.
The second doctor also said I probably had cataracts on the left eye. He put eye drops to dilate my pupils and make me wait in the waiting room I start to see so weird that I left the clinic (the doctor never explained this would happen). I also went away because he stated that he could not give a declaration of my vision acuity.
Basically I’m kinda in a mental breakdown because I don’t know what will happen to me. I can see very well with both eyes far and near. The right eyes is much worse. I have difficult to read with it alone but I can see all other things. I have not felt any vision problems and I’m not really interested to visit this ophthalmologist anymore. They made so many test putting my eyes in lights, to see through lens and the pupils dilation drops that I seriously now feel that my eyesight is worse.
I see no reason for a cataracts at age 30. I had no trauma, I’m healthy and fit, I work out, I never smoked and I had drink socially but I also stopped it over a year ago because I wanted to lose more weight. So unless cataracts is caused by sugar free sodas, the only other reason I can think is that I lived in Sweden and Finland for 4 years, and their the weather is extremely cold and dry so that could have caused the cataracts? I cannot see the cataracts on my right eye in front of the mirror even putting a flashlight light and getting very near. As you see I lived years in north of Finland and Sweden driving at night in icy and dark roads without ever had an accident.
I had take a Swedish drivers license in 2018 and the test by the Swedish ophthalmologist was approved to drive without glasses nothing bad mention, even in 2018 I notice this that my right eye is worse than the left.
Could I have being misdiagnosed by those doctors in Rio de Janeiro? If the cataract was to cause me a vision problem should it be somehow visible to me? (even like a tiny spec)
I don’t know my vision acuity on the glasses prescriptions he says something About my vision acuity be 20/20 on left and 20/30 on right, he said strangely glasses would not work much for anything.
Can anyone please try help me?