Oikawa
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Yes, but my point was that all of what you described is much clearer/easier to do with better eyesight.
Post Cataract surgery and missing balls, 18 months later
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Anything pool is easier with airline pilot vision. The OP doesn't have that and the various approaches to contact geometry all address the problems of visual distortion.
I am very sorry to read that some of the original poster is struggling and that others have stopped playing altogether after having cataract surgery. That must be awful to deal with.
At 71 my cataracts are not to the point where surgery is needed. Knowing that it is in my future reading this thread brings up many questions.
It must be devastating to go in with hopes of a great outcome then have the opposite occur.
Is it even possible to discern a great doctor for this procedure from one that is not?
Is correcting a poor outcome even possible?
I just searched my own questions above and found an article which may be helpful to anyone that may be considering this procedure.
www.healthgrades.com
At 71 my cataracts are not to the point where surgery is needed. Knowing that it is in my future reading this thread brings up many questions.
It must be devastating to go in with hopes of a great outcome then have the opposite occur.
Is it even possible to discern a great doctor for this procedure from one that is not?
Is correcting a poor outcome even possible?
I just searched my own questions above and found an article which may be helpful to anyone that may be considering this procedure.
Finding the Right Doctor for Cataract Surgery
Consider these key factors when choosing the best specialist for your cataract surgery.<br>
www.healthgrades.com
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George the Greek
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My wife came home one day and she started crying and said she had to have cataract surgery. I said people have it done all the time. She said it'll be $8K Cdn and I said so no biggie get it done. She had it done and that was at least 3 years ago and her eyesight is good. I find myself needing cheaters (71 years old) to read small print and no issue seeing far. I find when I'm off my phone and not using the cheaters everything is crisper.
Good luck on your surgery, and sorry to hear about Glaucoma. They call it silent theft, because it slowly damages the eye causing reparable harm before there is any noticeable vision loss.
George the Greek
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I had a Rolls Canhardly once. It rolls downhill and canhardly make it up uphill.I had a cataract once but i traded it in for a rincoln. Drumrolllllll
Requiring reading glasses is not related to cataracts. As we get older the lens in our eye isn't as flexible, and the range of focusing narrows. When we're young, our eyes have no problems focusing far and near (reading small print). For most of us, this starts after 40.
For Cataract surgery, I had IOL, I wished someone told me that the implanted lens doesn't the same range of focusing as our original organic lens.
I'll be short, had my surgery Tuesday. All 'appears' to have gone well!
Can't look at screen for long.
Later.
Can't look at screen for long.
Later.
I’m putting mine off a long as possible. My shot-making hasn’t suffered, but driving at night IS getting a bit hairy (and I’m an incorrigible night owl)! I know the statistics are favorable, but an acquaintance suffered a severe post-surgical infection, and is now blind in one eye. I don’t imagine that would help my pool game.
I made myself a pair of billiard glasses from what I saw online. Cheap pair of Walgreens readers that gave me excellent focus at 9 feet. Used a heat gun and a little ingenuity for the rest. Total cost... Under 10 bucks.
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Clever. I tried Walmart specs upside down with a strap and that worked as far as it went. I eventually went back to my natural dysfunctional vision. Had to make an adjustment on cuts going left because of the imbalance but even that only matters on long thin ones.I made myself a pair of billiard glasses from what I saw online. Cheap pair of Walgreens readers that gave me excellent focus at 9 feet. Used a heat gun and a little ingenuity for the rest. Total cost... Under 10 bucks.
Players can get pretty creative when they want to. Runs in our gene pools. Lol. For myself, might be a bit of an old school mentality at work here as well.
Any shot over 5 feet and I saw 3 balls down table where only one was sitting.
Like the old drunk guy said, "I aims for the middle one."
That's funny and real. I solved the no glasses and _really_ dominant eye problem by using double vision. I get down in a normal snookerish stance but instead of trying to focus, I let my vision go double. I center the rock between the double sticks and fire away.Any shot over 5 feet and I saw 3 balls down table where only one was sitting.
Like the old drunk guy said, "I aims for the middle one."
I am so sorry to hear of your situation.... Makes me cringe at the thought of upcoming possibilities!
Thanks for the warning.
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Everyone is different but choose the best eye doctor you can for cataract surgery. I used Fogg, Remington Eye Care.I am very sorry to read that some of the original poster is struggling and that others have stopped playing altogether after having cataract surgery. That must be awful to deal with.
At 71 my cataracts are not to the point where surgery is needed. Knowing that it is in my future reading this thread brings up many questions.
It must be devastating to go in with hopes of a great outcome then have the opposite occur.
Is it even possible to discern a great doctor for this procedure from one that is not?
Is correcting a poor outcome even possible?
I just searched my own questions above and found an article which may be helpful to anyone that may be considering this procedure.
Finding the Right Doctor for Cataract Surgery
Consider these key factors when choosing the best specialist for your cataract surgery.<br>
Dr. Fogg has done literally many thousands of cataract surgeries and very few have had complications which he goes
over in great detail. He explained that when there are other eye maladies in addition to a thickening retina, surgery can
be more challenging but his success rate is so ridiculously high it is not worth worrying about. When a patient does have a complicated eye problem, he spells out exactly what the risks are in detail. Cataract surgeries are like making scrambled eggs after you have done as many thousands of surgeries as he has. He was one of the first eye surgeons in the USA to become certified for LASIK eye surgery which was a long time ago. Pick a good doctor and you should be fine, at least I was. I don’t need, or wear, any eye glasses any longer and my surgery was like 8-9 years ago. But every eye problem needs to be evaluated, corrected & with surgery, recovered afterward. Each of us is their own unique vessel so we heal differently.
Light gray is always an option or blue. I never found a need to tint my billiard eyeglasses.
I preferred having my billiard eyewear clear so I could see the table and ball colors better.
Fortunately, my cataract surgery turned out fantastic and I haven’t needed glasses since.
First off I assume your over 60, at that age we all get cataracts, I go to honest Optomitrist that don’t do eye surgery.
I wear glasses to read, I shoot pool with no vision assistance devices, glasses.
Surgery don’t always go as expected, promised, or by book.
Would like you were done wrong, I would ask malpractice lawyer do you have case?