Can you tell me your experience with cataract surgery?

[marybourg]

4. My experience, like that of almost everyone I know, was excellent.

My surgeon used sedation, and I was very comfortable both during and after the surgery. The worst part was having to put eye drops in several times a day for several weeks. I was able to drive the next day.

I chose the regular lenses that Medicare pays for, on the advice of my optometrist. I also chose to need reading glasses rather than distance glasses, and chose to have glasses with progressive lenses that have the reading prescription on the bottom and just a little astigmatism correction on the top, since I don’t want to have to deal with reading glasses everywhere but where I am.