Cataract lens opinions?

With a 50% vision loss from optic nerve damage in one eye and that has a
large cataract it seems like surgeons recommend correcting that eye to
the optimum. Then later doing the other that has a very small cataract
to match it.

I'm comfortable using lower power glasses almost all the time so I have
focus from 2-15 feet, and full prescription bifocals only for driving.

Are there any reasons not to have a lens put in to match the good eye,
and leaving that good eye alone?
Being in my sixties that small cataract may never develop into a problem.

In article <aK-(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Mike Tyner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> "B. Traven" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>
> > Are there any reasons not to have a lens put in to match the good eye, and
> > leaving that good eye alone?
>
> No reason at all.
>
> > Being in my sixties that small cataract may never develop into a problem.
>
> If you can see what you need to see, you don't need surgery.

I usually agree with Mike, but I'm not sure I do here. Sometimes people
don't know what they can see until they get new glasses, contacts or
cataract surgery. Then they find out that the world looks much
different, and there is a lot more there than they realized was
possible. Of course, a good OD can help a lot with this. Nobody
realized I was very myopic until I hit fourth grade. I still can't play
ball sports. I never learned, because I couldn't see the ball. I spent
my youth indoors, reading books, because I *could* see those.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
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Dan Abel wrote:

> "Mike Tyner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> "B. Traven" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>>
>> > Are there any reasons not to have a lens put in to match the good eye, and
>> > leaving that good eye alone?
>>
>> No reason at all.
>>
>> > Being in my sixties that small cataract may never develop into a problem.
>>
>> If you can see what you need to see, you don't need surgery.
>
> I usually agree with Mike, but I'm not sure I do here. Sometimes people
> don't know what they can see until they get new glasses, contacts or
> cataract surgery. Then they find out that the world looks much
> different, and there is a lot more there than they realized was
> possible. Of course, a good OD can help a lot with this. Nobody
> realized I was very myopic until I hit fourth grade. I still can't play
> ball sports. I never learned, because I couldn't see the ball. I spent
> my youth indoors, reading books, because I *could* see those.

Husband didn't discover myopia until the compulsory eye exam when he started
college -- before he was old enough to get a driver's license. Until then he
assumed, when he thought about it, which was apparently never, that everybody
had to read with their eyes 6 inches from the book and nobody could read the
stuff on the blackboard.

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Cheers, Bev
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