I had mine done in January and February of 2020. the first one ended up taking over an hour as the doc discovered that the "strings" that held my lens in place were broken on the side toward my nose. He had the anesthesiologist wake me up so he could explain what was going on and what he was going to do. I got to listen to his phone call to the retina specialist who agreed with his plan. He installed a capsular tension ring in my eye and then the lens. I was awake for the whole thing. No pain but could feel all the manipulation going on.
Had the other eye done 1 month later and it took about 12 minutes. On the way home I was driving my wife crazy reading all the signs out in the distance. Colors are much more vivid now and white is actually white, not yellowish.
I had had glasses or contacts since I was 12 years old.
I chose distance lenses as I wanted to have good distance vision for work. I wear reading glasses for reading or other close up work and I can read my electronics displays without the readers .
My vision is 20/20 in the "bad" eye and 20/15 in the good eye.
The eye drops were a pain in the rear. They gave me a chart with circles to fill in to keep track of the drops. I used different colored sharpies to mark the bottle tops and then fill in the appropriate circles on the chart.

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The eye drops were a pain in the rear. They gave me a chart with circles to fill in to keep track of the drops. I used different colored sharpies to mark the bottle tops and then fill in the appropriate circles on the chart.

The eye clinic that did mine (Filutowski) supplied all-in-one drops for post-op; I did not need to keep track of separate types of drops.

Had mine done was 7 in the left and 4 in the right. Left was the first one, used "all in one" drops and they worked fine. The surgery was quick and painless, the result was going from 20-200 to 20-30 overall. After the first I quit wearing glasses and went to 2X readers which was what I had in lineless bifocals - that isn't going to change unless special $$ lenses are offered and you pay the difference under Medicare.

Post surgery the covered costs ran $28,000 which is why we don't get it done 40 years earlier.

One precaution is that you are NOT allowed to get your cranial blood pressure too high - it may cause issues, like the repair site leaking or your eye having issues with floaters. One of the initial after affects is a bit of shimmer on the edges as the lens is still somewhat unanchored, but that clears up unless you are on your hands and knees grubbing rocks from under a drain line with your head below your knees. Even if it was more than 4 months later - BE AWARE. You aren't going to be wading ashore on Utah Beach any time soon after cataract surgery. Keep your head up.

I can remember my Dad hoisting railroad ties up into my yard bear hugging them at age 70. I'm already too messed up for that, I should be more clever now.

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Post surgery the covered costs ran $28,000 which is why we don't get it done 40 years earlier.

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Can you explain more clearly please?