A news personality in my city had cataract surgery 6 years ago. When she tried to come back to work, she said the pain was extremely bad 3 weeks after surgery - so bad, she couldn't work at all. Two days later, she hung herself.

great to see you back and thx as always for providing education...happy thanksgiving...

Very informative video. My 80 year old husband had cataract surgery and has been told he has 20/20 vision in both eyes. However since the surgery he seems to be having some difficulty walking and claims his sight is now affecting his balance.

Have just had premium surgery (cataract & IOL) here in Canada. Basic was covered, but I chose premium. Monofocal (I chose "distance" as a swimmer and a loathing for fogging glasses) was recommended because of diabetes. Was given an option for "some intermediate range improvement" to help with dashboard/comuter monitor range), but was advised my distance would then likely be a bit compromised ... so elected to go monofocal. One consideration not mentioned ... although the cash outlay was significant, had the results not been to my satisfaction, there would have been a life of regret. Says more about me than the surgery, but it was still a factor for me. Surgery was only last week, so fingers still crossed (as swelling hasn't yet subsided)!!

Thank you very much Doctor! Honesty and integrity are very rare this day! I did have a catarat surgery on o e eye and I m not planning to do the other eye the surgery aparently went good nothing serious to complain i but I m. Ot feeling confortable having a “plastic” in my eyes for the rest one my days! Gracias 🙏

I had the lal lenses in both eyes 3 weeks ago i had two choices these or standard lens replacement because of RK surgery . I am still deciding if i made the right choice i went for my 1st adjustment and they were unable to do it because my eyes wouldn't refract because my eye pressure was high and they are even thinking i may have Glaucoma. I hope when i go back in approximately 10 days i get better news but as of now I regret spending 11k dollars extra and not be any better off than standard lenses

WHY CAN'T THIS KIND OF NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT BE DEVELOPED FASTER? It would not be surprising if the establishment were suppressing it because it would mean all those cataract surgeons out of a job and the equipment wasted kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWmldnmHptWhf8Usi=hPvRZwr4fwHsCD95

I had cataract surgery in 2019. Due to previous RK, I now must wear Scleral contacts. Would the LAL eliminate the need for contacts?

I got the Clearview 3 last month. My vision is almost perfect now. I'm very happy with this lens.

Excellent video! What is the cost of this lens?

I have pseudo exfoliation and have astigmatism am 81yo would this lal be ok for me?

This technology sounds great, and would have been my first choice if they were covered by insurance. Instead, I opted for fixed focus IOLs set for distance, which were covered by Medicare. I wasn't wanting to be “glasses free”, and I continue to wear progressives for reading and to correct astigmatism. The real benefit of removing the cataracts is greatly improved night vision, which makes for safer driving. 👍

I had cataract surgery last year(laser), with LAL implants. I am satisfied with the lenses, but I failed to find-out how many adjustments would be needed, and the treatments were done at the practice's home clinic, not at their surgery center close to my home. Driving home on the freeway, with my eyes dilated wasn't much fun. It's my fault for not asking more questions, before selecting LAL. I enjoy your videos. 👍👩‍⚕

can I use contact lenses even if I have pterygium?

I'm at better than 20/20 - very satisfied with LAL.

I am on a series of samples of Tryvaya....seems to work ,somewhat/....but the exhorbidant cost of close to $400/mo after insurance is a deal breaker. If it was affordable, I'd probably use it....but will migrate back to systane and refresh....too expensive cost vs benefit not there

First!. Please do odyssey. TIA

It's good to be back! Thank you for watching, and I'll see you in my next video :)

What about excessive smartphone viewing? Could that also be a factor?

I'm scheduled for cataract surgery in two months, but after reading all the comments here, I'm now having second thoughts and may cancel. The number of negative comments/results far outweigh the positive. Not good odds. Disappointing.

Oh my goodness!. I don't know what's worse...the cataract or the surgery. They both are bad.

I just had cataract surgery yesterday, and my center is a learning center. Where there are residents assisting and the surgeon allowed the resident to perform this procedure on me, apart from ignoring my need of more numbing medication or anesthesia. I felt it all and i suffer from severe anxiety, causing me to cry and hyperventilate, and just wanting to jump from the bed. It was one of the worst experiences after the loss of my baby, by far.

Hi Dr Lee, really enjoying your videos! I am trying to choose between dominant eye monofocal, other eye EDOF versus both eyes with multi-focal like Odyssey. Since you play pickleball like me, I'm wondering why you would select a blended vision solution over the multi-focal since it seems that multi-focal might provide better depth perception for sports like pickleball? Really appreciate your thoughts!

Putting stupid pictures of yourself on the video cover diminishes youy credibility. I pass the video when you do it.

The only complaint that I had after my cataract surgery was, and in some conditions still is, that the entire world is too bright. I paid for the top of the line lenses and couldn't be happier. I have 20/15 with great night vision.

You're all butchers

I am 58 years of age and have been prescribed a lens strength of 0.25 for astigmatism in one eye. Following my recent examination, my physician recommended that I consider cataract surgery in the future. I would appreciate your guidance on a specific lens model and brand that would enable me to avoid the necessity of wearing glasses while achieving optimal vision. Please note that cost is not a concern. Thank You

Using seed oils to cook is the worst offender for all kinds of diseases including cataracts. These PUFA seed oils, highly susceptible to oxidative damage by light and heat, are already toxic before use since they are heat extracted and treated with hexane to remove odours. The food industry saw a business opportunity with cheap oils from rapeseed (sanitized as Canola), cottonseed oil (byproduct from ginning) and exploited it to the max - profits before health.

Optometrists are like chiropractors basically

Thank you doctor! Want you to know I'am a very good listener & you give a much needed message. Keep up the good work.

I had Cataract surgery about 20 months ago. I am both happy and unhappy. Happy because a) the cataracts were blurring my vision at all focal lengths, and now vision is crystal clear, and b) I was very nearsighted since about the second year, and now can see very well at distance with no glasses, including to drive, watch TV, swim, or just walk around. Unhappy because: my near vision went from perfect to not good at all. I need reading glasses or a magnifying glass to see anything small, where before others asked me to read the fine print. Without my glasses I could read things as tiny as anyone.

Just done mine. Went for jnj eyhance mono plus lense. Haziness gone. Got some flashes from pos dysphotopsia only for 3rd day. Neg dysphotopsia black arc on outer edge but should go away too. Vision is not as good as I would expect but eye drops interfering with that so I think will get better over time. Overall a success. Can never have 18 year old eyes back. 1300 US$ in Thailand. Sriracha hospital. Saved thousands.australia is ridiculous price.

I have dry eyes already. They don't bother me but i blink often. Also i struggle holding my eyes open long enough for the consultation.

Thank you Doctor

Hi, i just want to comment, bc the proportion of comments on this video of ppl experiencing long-term complications are frankly, scary. When i asked about risks, all my ophthalmologist would tell me is that only 1% of the time things don't work out. So i commend this doctor for trying her best to give ppl informed consent. After reading hundreds of comments, this confirms my feelings that like with prescription drugs, this is something you should only do as an absolute last resort if NOTHING else works. BUT THERE ACTUALLY ARE THINGS YOU CAN TRY TO IMPROVE YOUR SITUATION BEFORE RESORTING TO THIS! Here are some things you can research for more info and try: Castor oil (organic, hexane-free, cold-pressed, glass bottled) has helped some ppl. It's antioxidant-rich, and tissue-penetrating, so probably helps those with cataracts stemming from those deficiencies. Could be why i have heard of some ppl resolve their cataracts with high-dose Vitamin C. This did not work for me, but might for you. Look up DMSO and cataracts on an alternative search engine like Yandex (Google is heavily pharma and conventional medicine-biased), so you can learn about what DMSO is and how it can help with your cataracts. **Only if you haven't yet had the surgery! DMSO will damage the synthetic lens.** This is my experience. I have cataracts that i had been able to improve significantly through lifestyle (more on that later). However, last month, i got sick with a mysterious illness that consisted only of a fever and a 4-day long headache, in which 3 days in, my vision went off a cliff, and i was almost totally blind virtually over night. I'm currently using a 20% DMSO and saline solution, applying 1 drop 3x per day, and have been at it for 3 weeks. In that time, I've managed to pull myself out of basically being blind. Left eye was mostly just shadows and faint colors, visual field full of tiny black floating specks, and large, ropey floaters. Could not read at all. Right eye could read white text on black background, and black text on white/light backgrounds was difficult and tiring. Very cloudy. Walking outside in daylight, i could somewhat see thanks to the limited vision in my right eye, but could not see more than a couple feet in front of me, and was afraid to cross the street because I couldn't see the cars coming until they were only a few feet away). Now only three weeks later, my right eye is very clear, and feels like the cataract is barely there. Progress on left eye has been slower, but I can see and read again, though I'm still dealing with a lot of glare from light sources and some cloudiness / more faded color, but a significant improvement from the practically total blindness of three weeks ago. All floaters gone. Night vision improved in both eyes. It feels like my vision is close to where it was before i got sick. As of the last three days, I've experimented with adding 1-2 drops of microsomal EDTA (Global Healing makes the one I have) to 6 or 7 drops of the 20% DMSO solution. It also seems to have helped improve things for me. EDTA is a chelator used to detox heavy metals, and studies have shown many cataracts to contain high concentration of heavy metals. Do your research on EDTA and cataracts on an alternative search engine. I came across one study involving rats with cataracts and they applied EDTA with MSM (chemical structure similar to DMSO) and found opacity of the lens reduced by 40-50%. But other than that, not much had been done with it, so with the EDTA, it's more of an experiment I'm doing on myself to see if it helps, which, so far so good... There's more testimonials that will vouch for DMSO though. Other than that, lifestyle changes has helped me. At the beginning of my health journey, the opacity of my cataracts was so bad that my ophthalmologist said he couldn't see past them and felt like surgery would be necessary within 6 months. I really felt like i was going blind. What I have found to be critical is cleaning up your diet -- no more processed foods, try to stick to whole foods 95-100% of the time, get your air and water as clean as possible, and try to reduce your synthetic chemical intake in as many areas of your life as possible. A long 11-day water fast (it must be long in order to effect vision) worked wonders. By the last day, my vision had gotten so clear that i thought i was a hair's away from being cured. At this point, I had been on the lifestyle changes and regular cleansing for a little over a year. I went to the optometrist shortly after breaking the fast, and she said my left eye cataract was still small, and it was like the one in my right eye was barely there. However, in the coming days of resuming normal eating, the cloudiness returned. I suspected the reason to be my liver being bogged down and not detoxifying well, so toxins from food that would have been processed out, were probably being released back into my bloodstream and eventually deposited into my eyes. The health of your liver is closely connected to your eyesight, so doing a series of liver cleanses, probably at least 6, will also help. A full body cleanse program is what I have next to tackle this problem (gut cleanse, series of liver and gall bladder cleanses, parasite cleanse, and chemicals and heavy metals cleanse. The drops are targeted care, and the other cleanses and lifestyle changes are to tackle this issue from the other end, handling root cause. If you want to try an extended fast, it'll be more effective after doing this cleansing. I just didn't know. Sunlight when there's a lot of red light (late afternoon to sunset) has also really helped. I felt like it helped to stabilize my vision. Sun shining on eyes with eyes closed, but within 30-45mins of sunset, you can look directly at it. Might take some easing into it, depending on your light sensitivity. Grounding at the same time worked better. Anyway, hope this helps! I can't report a total reversal yet (fingers crossed) because I'm still in the middle of my healing journey. But i literally pulled myself out of going blind TWICE by doing these things, and still getting better! If your cataracts are small and minor, I have no doubt you will have a much easier time than me, and will probably be able to completely reverse them. Don't let conventional medicine make you believe there's nothing you can do other than deteriorate until it's time for surgery, or go blind!

Thank you for making these videos Dr Lee. I'm spending countless hours researching the best IOL for me. I had PRK 20 years ago. I'm also a outdoors person who prioritizes distance and intermediate vision. I'm a retired pharmacist so I geek out on medical advances like LAL technology. The cost is a hard pill to swallow, but it's my vision for the rest of my life. I don't want to compromise based on price.

This is a great summary of the new lens on the market--what about the new technology to make this easier for the physician? I'm trying to find a doctor in Chicago that has the latest technology and has experience with these new lens.

what about light entering the eye is too bright??

Thank you doctor for your kind and good advice

Amazing explanation!

Good afternoon, Dr. Lee, been watching your videos for a while now and appreciate the candidness regarding the dizzying amount of premium lenses that are available. Although, I would argue that there's only two or three worth looking at in my opinion. With this being said, I'm one of those picky people that are extremely particular about my eyesight and have recently learned I'm a candidate for the light adjustable lens. However, I have never been in a situation where I've had an opportunity to try out mono vision, but knowing my sensitivities, I question whether or not I would be OK with that or not. I'm not sure if I can ask for a mono type of prescription for contact lenses to test it out as some other people on KZbin have suggested. I definitely would like to have great vision in all three ranges and I do completely understand that it's not a guarantee, but I'm wondering what you're seeing in your practice and if you could shed some light on where you are with these procedures, and more specifically the light adjustable lenses. I know it's only been a few months unless I've misunderstood what you said in the video. I would appreciate any guidance or any thoughts that you might have for someone like me. I do realize it's more of a general question as I'm not asking you to diagnose it invisible person lol cheers and have a wonderful day.

Preparing to get this surgery in just a few days. I was doing okay but the closer to the day, my anxiety is through the roof. This was a great video. Thank you!

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"Should I chose" ???? I'm a microbiologist but I didn't discuss my lenses with my ophthalmologist. He recommended according to my needs and I simply followed. He's a professional in his field and I respect that. I'm 75, had my surgery 2 years ago and have my 20/20 vision back. Knowing him, I'm sure he won't discuss a treatment for a infection.

I had surgery back in January 2022. My left eye had a lens implanted for distance and in my right eye for close up. With the combination I can see clearly at any distance. The brain is amazing at compensating and interpretation. Maybe it helps that I'm a microbiologist and can handle monocular microscopes, simply by ignoring the input from the open, non-observing eye, and concentrating on the object of interest. It's (almost) all in the brain.

I had cataract surgery 1 yr ..beautifully done very high level lenses but terrible dry eye awful ..now one yr. Later have gotten PVD in my left eye a big cloudy piece now floats all over the place .terrible ...in the mean time .i am doing acupuncture for my eyes ...absoloutly fantastic less stress in the eye not all this stress dry eye yes but not so bothersome .amazing so hsppy ...but......can they take out this piece of gel that fell into my eye. Otherwise my vision would be perfect....really unfortunate

Had the eyhance lense installed. Some neg and pos dysphoyopsia which i hope goes away after months. Also far vision seems not as focused as it should be. Maybe i will improve over time. Nothing will get close to youthful original lense it seems. If you are going for cataract surgery keep your expectations small.

Thank you!!!

I do really appreciate Dr Lee's videos. They are excellent presentations. I'm 64 with mild cataracts, but my vision is no longer correctable beyond 20/30, and it's declining rapidly. I've watched about 200 videos on this subject now, and I'm leaning towards Vivity in one eye and Panoptix in the other. I can tolerate some night effects. I realize all good things come at a cost. What frightens me a little is the occasional comments from a small percentage of people who have a terrible outcome.

There have been studies involving epithelial stem cells regenerating lens after congenital cataracts have been removed. I hope this can translate to adults.