What You Should Know About Cataract Surgery San Antonio

By Tammie Caldwell


After certain age, if you begin to feel that your vision is getting poor, blurry or if you experience your eyeglass prescription is change frequently, then you should consult an eye doctor. There are some good and well reputable eye clinics in the city of San Antonio TX where you could find all the information relevant to cataract surgery San Antonio.

If the doctor detects your cataract at a very early stage, then he might prescribe you to wear glasses instead of undergoing any other treatment at that time. Surgery is recommended when the cataract gets mature and it begins affecting your vision in a way that even glasses cannot correct it. Many people feel worries about undergoing such treatment because they lack information and think it is a very painful and difficult procedure.

If you gather information and get to know more about this treatment, you will find out that it is more or less a very short and pain free procedure. You may feel a little bit of discomfort during and afterwards the surgery but there are no other effects you might incur if the procedure runs smoothly. Your doctor would give you pain killers and eye ointments in order to make the pain go away and they work perfectly fine.

It is a very simple surgical procedure where with the help of a microscope the surgeon makes a small incision on the surface of your eye. The incision is made in order to removed the clouded lens by dissolving it. Afterwards, a new lens is put inside your eye to improve the eye vision.

If the lens is too thick or too hard to dissolve then some other procedure is used to get rid of it. This procedure is known as Extracapsular surgery. In this procedure, instead of making a small incision a bit larger incision is made so that the lens could be removed as it is without dissolving it. If you undergo such procedure, then the recovery time is also a bit long.

It is your responsibility to discuss everything with your doctor in length and ask all the questions or concerns that you might have in your mind. Your doctor would ask you certain questions regarding your medical history just to ensure you're fit to undergo this sort of surgical treatment. In certain cases, where the patient suffers from illnesses like diabetes the healing process becomes every more slower.

The treatment is done within a couple of minutes time and you are able to go home right away. Only if some sort of complication occurs, you might be asked to stay overnight but that happens very rarely. The very next day the bandage is also removed from your eye.

Usually both eyes have to be treated but they cannot be treated at the same time. It is recommended that one should give at least twelve days gap between the two surgeries so that the first eye is given ample amount of time of time to heal properly.




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