[Leica] Cataract Surgery advise/recommendations

[Ric Carter]

Thanks a bunch, Frank!

Ric



> On Mar 18, 2026, at 5:58 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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> 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
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> 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/
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