Anyone with experience with surgery to remove cataracts from eyes?

I have had cataracts surgery in both eyes and lets just say it is literally the easiest surgery ever! All you do is do do some pre-op things such as blood tests and such. Then you have the surgery, which is not painful at all because you cannot feel it and i was awake with local anesthetic. After the surgery you go home and rest for 2 days in which you are in no pain and the within a week you are good to go! I promise its super easy!

I have not personally had this operation done. However, a good half dozen of my friends and relatives have gone through the surgery with flying colors.When my grandpa had this done 50 years ago he was in the hospital for a week. They immobilized his head and had sandbags around his body to keep him from moving. Last summer a friend (who is older than my grandpa was at the time) put herself on a Greyhound bus and rode 80+ miles to a hospital in Pittsburgh, PA to have cataracts removed. The SAME day she got back on the bus and came back home with very little discomfort. I tell you all of this to help you & your mom understand that the procedure these days is relatively simple compared to how they did things back in the day. I would try to get her doctor to reassure her about the whole thing. It seems other things in her life over which she has little or no control are causing her more pain than the eye surgery will. Once she has the surgery and can see better, she may be able to be a comfort and blessing to other friends and family who aren't doing as well. You have my prayers and good wishes.

You need to go somewhere really good Like Cleveland Clinic. Sounds like she had degeneration of the macula, and she needed that resolved before they removed the cataract. I even had a Amsler Grid and took it to the Opthamologist and he said now now you just need a cataract removed, well my mother was an optometrist, and I knew better, when these veins start to grow your vision first becomes distorted, things like blinds, door ways look crooked. and without the shots from a retina doctor I lost the vision in the left eye. So this right eye I am getting the shots in to prevent blindness in that eye. You see when we get older, sometimes new veins start to grow through the macula, which is a tiny spot about the size of a pencil eraser.In the back of the eye ball. These veins are weak and leak, and that covers the macula and causes the blindness, she needed the shots in the eye, so that eye would not go blind. To remove the dried blood might help, but I would take her someplace good, like Cleveland Clinic where the doctors know what they are doing. Good luck to you and I understand how depressed she feels. But Cleveland can work wonders, or if you are near Johns Hopkins.

You can tell your mother that there is NO PAIN involved during the surgery. After surgery, she may feel a little scratchy. Many patients see dramatic improvement within 24 hours after surgery. I have had many who can see 20/20 the day after. Almost without exception, patients say they were pleasantly surprised by how easy the whole process was and how their worries were unfounded. Modern cataract surgery has an extremely high success rate with very low risk.

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