Blurry Vision After Cataract Surgery

Cataract surgery is performed to treat cataracts. Cataracts can cause blurred vision and increase the glare from lights. If a cataract makes it difficult for you to perform your normal activities, your doctor might suggest cataract surgery.

When a cataract hinders the treatment of another eye issue, cataract surgery might be recommended. For example, doctors might recommend cataract surgery if a cataract makes it difficult for your optometrist to take a look at the back of your eye to keep track of or treat other eye problems such as age-related macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy.

In many cases, waiting to have cataract surgery won’t damage your eye, so you have time to consider your choices. If your vision is still quite good, you might not need cataract surgery for several years, if ever.

What to Expect after Catarect Surgery?

After cataract surgery, expect your vision to begin enhancing within a couple of days. Your vision may be blurry at first as your eye heals and adjusts.

Colors may seem brighter after your surgery due to the fact that you are looking through a new, clear lens. A cataract is typically yellow- or brown-tinted before surgery, muting the look of colors.

You’ll typically see your eye doctor a day or two after your surgery, the following week, and then again after about a month to keep track of healing.

It’s normal to feel itching and mild pain for a number of days after surgery. Avoid rubbing or pressing on your eye.

Your doctor may ask you to wear an eye spot or protective shield the day of surgery. Your doctor might likewise advise using the eye spot for a couple of days after your surgery and the protective shield when you sleep during the recovery period.

Your doctor might prescribe eyedrops or other medication to avoid infection, reduce swelling and control eye pressure. Often, steroid medications can be injected into the eye at the time of surgery to keep swelling at bay.

After a couple of days, most of the pain should vanish. Often, total recovery occurs within 8 weeks.

Contact your doctor immediately if you experience any of the following:

• Vision loss
• Pain that continues regardless of the use of non-prescription pain medications
• Increased eye inflammation
• Light flashes or multiple new spots (floaters) in front of your eye

Most people need glasses, at least some of the time, after cataract surgery. Your doctor will let you know when your eyes have actually recovered enough for you to get a final prescription for spectacles. This is usually between one and 3 months after surgery.

If you have cataracts in both eyes, your doctor usually schedules the second surgery after the first eye has healed.

What Is a Reason of Blurred Vision after Cataract Surgery?

Blurred vision can arise from a number of aspects:

• Lens mistake. Based upon your fantastic vision of 20/25 this is not likely to be the case.
• Dry eyes can contribute considerably to blurred vision and glare in the evening. We recommend artificial tears such as Systane or Refresh tears 3-4 times daily or as directed by your ophthalmologist.
• Blurred vision can likewise be a direct arise from swelling in the retina, which typically happens a few weeks after cataract surgery in unusual cases. Offered your excellent level of visual skill of 20/25 — which is simply one line far from 20/20 — that’s not likely.

Glare can be present even after cataract surgery and tends to decrease in time. Glare can be seen with multifocal lenses as well as non-multifocal lenses. After cataract surgery with multifocal lenses some patients may even need a pair of glasses at night and/or for reading to attain best vision. The period of these symptoms can differ significantly depending on each patient’s special scenario. Consult with your ophthalmologist for more details.

What Do Patients Say about the Condition

• It is never normal. I had my cataracts done at the end of last year by two various surgeons, one eye is fine, the other is fuzzy. It is extremely strenuous and really depressing, the health center does not really want to know, said they would send me an appointment, have never ever spoken with them. I have a consultation to be seen by another hospital in 15 days, I have a dreadful feeling they are not going to have the ability to do anything, besides inform you to use the drops. I have likewise been entrusted ‘dry eye‘ which is painful. I feel my life is destroyed. I am interested to know how using glasses stops the blurriness?
• I feel like I’m experiencing the very same thing, I did my cataract surgery (particularly an intraocular lenses implant) almost one year ago and while my left eye has a good vision, my right eye is the problematic one, I have fuzzy vision and I see the reflection of the light on objects.
  It’s weird due to the fact that, for instance when I’m walking on the street, expecially during night, I see the lights spreading on their left side, when I watch an intense light the effect vanish for like 4 seconds before it appears again. Not even glasses are able to repair this and I’m very anxious about this.