Cataracts at age of 30 , no risk factors very healthy ?

[Manindoubt]

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?

[Manindoubt]

Thanks so much for the answer again

Yes I’m trying to schedule an appointment but they  only have Wednesday , I’m concerned about the weird felling from the eye drops in the right eye ? Can that be a side effect ?  I fell little bit pressure and head ache only on the right eye , I’m concerned with that as it’s already 72 h that I got
The drops the pupils come back to normal after I think 5 hours and both eye look normal .

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

I cannot answer that. You would have to call the doctor's office that put the drops in

[Manindoubt]

I’m trying to ask them which substance it was . But it’s probably something normal for pupil dilation as it lasted 5 h

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

I know you are distressed but your posting it is not possible to tell whether you do or do not have cataracts and whether your vision meets driving standards. You do need an eye examination by an Eye MD ophthalmologist and your eyes do need to be dilated.  The only way to work through this is more time and more money. You should try and find an ophthalmologist that is patient and explains things and has good reputation. best of luck

[Manindoubt]

Thanks a lot for the answer , I also would like to mention that I fell a discomfort or some pressure on the right eye that was dilated using drops ( the eye that supposelly have cataracts) and have felt some head ache in the morning , Is that a normal side effect of the drops ? I also consider the case that it mind be caused my psicológical state , I do suffer from anxiety and having beeing told I have cataracts at age 30 have put me under a lot of stress .  I do plan to go talk with an ophthalmologist tomorrow about that issue .

It’s mind blowing for me that I have this. , I have no family history of early cataracts my parents don’t have it both of them are 55/ 56 , even my two alive grandparents don’t have it age 80/85 , the only person in my family I know to have cataracts was my grandfather ( father side ) that passed away at age 90 couple years ago , so I would not Imagine I would have it that early .

Do you think this cataract also can stabilize and don’t grow for many years ? What I really hope .

Regards .

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

It is unlikely that you have cataracts at your age.  If you do, and that would be unsual, cataract surgery is the most successful surgery done on adults with an extremely low complication rate. Don't fall apart, many people that post on this forum have much worse problems. What you need is a good medical eye exam by a Eye MD that communicates well and answers your questions.

[Manindoubt]

Just a correct my worse eye is the right one , the left eye is very good .