rezoom lens problem

[tundra31]

HAD BILATERAL CATERACT WITH REZOOM LENS IMPLANT SURGERY.  WAS OVERCORRECTED WICH RESULTED IN SEVERE HEADACHE AND NAUSEA. WILL BE 2 YRS IN MARCH....LASIX 2OR 3 MONTHS AFTER CATERACT REMOVAL.  DASYTIME VISION GREAT..NIGHT TIME IS EXACTLY LIKE DRIVING THRU A FIREWORKS FINALE.  DRIVING EVEN A SHORT DISTANCE IS  SO DANGEROUS,  VERY CONFUSING.LOOKING AWAY IS FRIGHTENING.  COULD SOMETHING HAVE BEEN DONE WRONG IN SURGERY TO HAVE MADE  THIS PROBLEM LAST SO LONG.....I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT A FEW HALOS , IT FULL BLOWN FIREWORKS..  HAS ANYONE HEARD OF THIS PROBLEM BEFOR.  ASKING THE SURGON ABOUT THIS , LAUGHS AT ME AND SAYS NO CHARGE FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT.N

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

Well I take care of several young women that have had LASIK done by a divorced ophthalmologist in our area, they all seem to have post op problems and he changes girl-friends more often than most people change their socks. When he drops them he sends them to "other ophthalmologists" to deal with their post lasik issues. It takes all kinds.

JCH III MD

[tundra31]

That is correct. I intend to do just that......thank you again...my son is doing optho in New  Orleans, but I think I should go to a stranger. thanks again..

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

Do I understand this right? You are the ex-wife of the ophthalmic surgeon that did your procedure? Well that first of all is a a violation of the medical traditions dating back to Socrates that physicians not treat or operate on family members. Maybe you need to leave him a second time---professionally speaking----and find someone that won't laugh at you and with no emotional baggage in the room.

JCH III MD

[tundra31]

Thank you so much for your reply.I am however  upset to know that this is not going to clear up,.and that another procedure may be in the future. as the ex wife of the opthmalogist surgeon,  I know that this third procedure is risky and the chances for complications are more than in the first procedure. this is a very frightening situation.

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

Spend a little time at this site and review the archives and use the search feature to find a rather large cohort of people with multifocal implants with the same problems and the same complaints. It goes with the territory. In 2007 the problems with night vision represent limitations of an evolving technology rather than "the surgeon doing something wrong". You are pretty much limited to wearing glasses with aspheric optics and antiglare coating to see if that helps. Explanting the lOLs and putting in a a monofocal IOL.

JCH III MC