I'm having cataract surgery next month and i'm only 16...just asking but...?!
Question:
I'm having cataract surgery next month and i'm only 16...just asking but...?
Ok i had 4 surgeries last year which was Retinal Detachment and Glaucoma. I know needed those surgeries and i got cataract in my right eye. So i'm having cataract and the oil removed from my eye surgery. I hardly can see from my right eye but what would happen if i don't have cataract surgery? just curious.
Answers:
The cataract would be likely to deepen and eventually the pupil of the eye would turn white: "Complete cataract"
It can in the extreme provoke further glaucoma.
It needs doing to find out how much vision the right eye can have. It's difficult to predict, I'm afraid.
The eye might be good just for peripheral vision (still useful!)
or have much better vision than that.
Balancing the two eyes if the right eye does have good sight is also likely to need some care. The right eye won't shift from distance to near as the left one will.
Best wishes,
(Optometrist, retired)