Is it too risky to have a Rezoom lens explanted after it has been in
for almost three years?
The sight in my right eye, with the Rezoom IOL, has deteriorated over the last
several months. The vision has become blurry, like looking through a glass
covered in Vaseline. The eye can no longer focus at any distance.
Is this likely due to a “clouding of the posterior capsule?” If not,
what else could have caused it this long after the operation?
The Rezoom lens was off a bit when implanted. This was corrected by Lasik.
However, I could only focus for distance, not for near or medium sight. It also
produced a great deal of ghosting on a dark object against a light background.
The other complication from my surgeries was I see two different sized images.
A ReStor lens was put in my left eye and the Rezoom in my right--a bad idea.
The images in my left eye are larger than those in my right eye. Sometimes
things would float or double because of this.
Since my left eye is weaker and has a small retinal tear, the right eye was
dominant. I was able to ignore the doubling effect much of the time. However,
with the loss of vision in the right eye, there is a battle over dominance and
seeing clearly is much harder. Especially in the morning, it can take a while
before I can focus well enough to read. Sometimes I have to close my right eye
to get a focus. (I have some near sight through the ReStor lens, although I use
reading glasses most of the time.)
With my vision already compromised, do I dare have any further
operations?