I had my last visit of this year two days ago and the next will be next year.
I have good vision in the left eye, the right eye is a little bit myopic. I was so much satisfied of my far and near vision, but a lot of flying objects and filaments (of the corpus vitreous they told me) are seriously disturbing me.
I always have had a lot of them, with and without contacts, but now I have one of them in the right eye, since two days, that is obscuring a large part of my vision. They prescribed me some integrators, telling me that probably I'll obtain no results. Do you have any suggestion?
Thank you in advance.
I had my second eye operated five days ago. The near vision of the first eye is getting better, and the near vision of the second is even better, also because it is a little bit myopic. I'll have my visit in two days and I'll know how is the situation. Halos and glares are shining. I hope it's too early.
I don't know how long you are waiting before the other eye. Again its possible that you are merely still recovering from surgery and your near vision in the operated eye will get better. If the eye looks like it is recovered well enough to get a good sense of vision, you can use it to estimate where you might want the other eye. You could look at what the prescription for that eye is, if it is say +0.50, then look at whatever strength lens you need to see the print you'd like to see, say +1.50. Then do (reading-add - prescription) so in this example +1.50 - (+0.50) = 1, and that is how myopic you want your other eye to be able to read that well, i.e. -1. There is a limit to how much monovision you want to do since it reduces 3D vision, but -1 or even a bit higher is tolerated by most people (if the vision in your other eye is good enough, you might consider a contact lens trial).
Unfortunately the quality of vision people get with an IOL varies with each person. Although most people don't need glasses for anything with the Symfony (except perhaps very rarely for a rare close up task), a minority of people do need to wear reading correction with the Symfony. Usually people focus on getting the eyes set right to handle the majority of their tasks well, even if they do occasionally need glasses.
So it could be better to ask for a little bit (-1.00/1.50) myopic eye to balance the other either it is hyperopic or not. In this case I could not only read and use the computer, but also handle the very small objects I use for my hobby.
Actually with this IOL you can be a bit hyperopic (even say +1.5) and still have 10/10 far.
They measured my left eye, and I have 10/10 far, so I am not hyperopic (if I understand well). The surgeon showed me how My sight could be with -1.00, -0.50 either looking at far and reading very small characters. He told me that it's possible to implant in the right eye, on the base of the prescription they already made and that is quite the same of the left, a lens 'a little bit lower which allows me to see the size print I want to see at a comfortable distance. I can choice the add to do this.
"Three-month results of European study show good performance of Symfony IOL
May 13, 2015 ...
'Halo and glare were minimal, with 99% of the patients reporting no halo or night glare at all. Patient satisfaction was high. More than 60% were spectacle-free, and 98% said they would recommend the implant to family and friends.' ...
'Uncorrected visual acuity was 20/20 at both distance and intermediate and 20/32 at near, with a smooth transition between distance and near vision. The defocus curve was a continuum and did not show the classic peaks of conventional diffractive IOLs,' Hugny-Larroque said. "