[Leica] Cataract Surgery advise/recommendations

[Frank Filippone]

You can sometimes tell this is a group of older folk....  Someone 
mentions cataracts and you get a gazillion responses form the collective 
old eye gang.....

I have mine done about 7 years ago.  fast and painless.  Mine are setup 
with the (cheapo) normal replacement lenses. I was told that I owuld 
probably need reading glasses after the operation, so I could not figure 
a reason to have the variable lenses installed.  After all, part of the 
promise of the variable lenses is to do away with glasses.....  if I was 
going to still need them, why bother?

But forget all that,,,, it will go well and you will see a bit or a lot 
better.  Remember, the problem is that you now have a non clear lens you 
are looking through.  they replace it with a clear one.

My experience in one eye was not without its problems... about a year 
after the surgery, I had reduced quality of vision in one eye.  
Apparently, and not rarely, I had grown (?) / Developed (?) / otherwise 
had what appears to be a membrane inside the eye that restricts 
vision... basically a different cloudiness....

The fix was easy.... they sat me in a chair, and blasted the membrane by 
shooting pulses of laser light in a ring pattern.... when they were 
done, I was looking through the center of that ring.  ( the ring gets 
absorbed by the body).....  The closest comparison I can make is to 
shoot out the center of a target, so that the only thing left is the 
periphery.  Took all of 5 minutes.

Overall the experience was a good one.  Certainly not painful. Your 
personal results will vary... my eyes were not that bad and I almost 
could not see a difference.  Others have a remarkable change to deeply 
saturated colors or quantum level leaps of resolution improvement.

  good luck.....

Frank Filippone bmwred735i at gmail.com

On 3/18/2026 8:51 AM, Ric Carter via LUG wrote:
> Have my pre-exam for cataract surgery this afternoon.
>
> Can anyone share thoughts?
>
> Lens options and such?
>
> Thanks all
>
> Ric Carter
> https://home.cartersxrd.net/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> Seehttp://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information