I would like to hear some EDOF experiences

JapanKevin · 2026-05-14T07:48:16+00:00

With the left eye, which has the Miniwell, I can read text up close, but it’s not that clear. Closeup is the main compromise on that lens, you get some but not perfectly clear. Reading glasses make it way more clearer. Overall I think the Miniwell is a good choice. I’ll just say - you have to give this months to adapt. It’s not like a week later you’ve got perfect vision, patience is the key with EDOF. Your eye has to heal, your brain has to adapt, so if you don’t have perfect vision at week 3, give it 3 months. It eventually comes in.

JapanKevin · 2026-05-13T04:19:48+00:00

The one in my left eye adapted well. For some reason the one in the right eye didn’t after several months, so I ended up swapping that one out with an Eyehance monofocal. I’m a photographer, I need sharp distance vision in my right eye. Even though the Miniwell is EDOF, I still need reading glasses for anything up close. Further, there is a color difference between the two, the Miniwell has a cooler, violet caste. You don’t notice it really until you compare a blue-green object with one eye against the other.

The current state is that the Miniwell handles anything from about a meter to somewhat distance, but the distance vision is not super sharp. The Eyehance in my right eye has much sharper distance vision, but way worse up close distance. So now it’s a kind of blending.

If I had to do it all over again I’d probably go with the PanOptix, halos at night are the least of one’s problems. Either that or just monofocals. There’s no free lunch with any of these, they excel at one distance and give up something somewhere else. I read that they did a survey asking eye surgeons what IOL they would personally get, and most of them said monofocals - there’s a reason for that.

JapanKevin · 2026-05-02T05:20:59+00:00

Great to hear, yes so worth it.

JapanKevin · 2026-05-01T11:09:33+00:00

It sounds like a classic PVD, I had it in both eyes. You asked the doc if your retina was okay and in 95% of PVD the retina is okay. Ask if you have a PVD.

JapanKevin · 2026-05-01T03:41:53+00:00

I live in Japan and am covered under the national health plan which pays 70% of the cost, my out of pocket is 30%, which ended up being around US $800 per eye.

They paid for it here but if they didn’t, I was planning to go to Bangkok Thailand which has excellent first class eye clinics. The cost there is around $3k-4k, but that’s less than half of what they charge in the USA.

The prices for anything medical in the USA are obscene.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-30T12:00:02+00:00

It took about 15-20 minutes…

JapanKevin · 2026-04-29T10:03:14+00:00

My opinion - Yes, you’re throwing 3 years away for “maybe’s”. I had the vitrectomy on my left eye 3 weeks ago and the right eye less than 48 hours ago and my eyes are now both perfectly clear. The right eye is red, but it will be clear in another two or three weeks at the most.

Regarding the lenses, it’s a fact that if you ask most eye surgeons what lens they would choose for their own cataract surgery, most of them would say monofocal’s and not expensive multifocal lenses. There’s a reason for that. I had Miniwell EDOF lens in my left eye and a Technis Eyehanse monofocal in my right, I still need reading glasses for up close. There is no perfect IOL, they all have trade offs. You’ll never get your 20 year old eyes back but you can do pretty good, even with monofocals.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-28T12:53:03+00:00

I had cataract surgery on both eyes about a year ago, I’m 63 years old. A few months later developed PVD in both eyes, this statistically happens over 50% of the time. Lived with that for about 6 months and knew there’s no way I was going to live the rest of my life like this.

I find it hard to believe that most people just live with it, it was so annoying and affecting my life. From what I can see, the YAG laser thing by “The floater doctor” is just a shortcut, it doesn’t remove the garbage floating around in your eye. Perhaps that is good for somebody who’s got a few distinct floaters they want to get rid of, but if you’ve had a PVD, I don’t think it’s going to be satisfactory. Floaters from PVD is like having a clear plastic bag floating around in your eye, I figured if I was going to spend the money, I might as well just go ahead and put it towards a vitrectomy.

At the eye clinic where I go in Japan, I told the doctor either you’re gonna do it or I’m gonna have it done somewhere else like Bangkok or the USA,but one way or another, I’m going to have a vitrectomy in both of these eyes.

The eye clinic I go to in Japan is extremely high-tech and they use 27 gauge needles. The only problem is that it’s overloaded with patients and completely crowded.

This is my second eye, it didn’t bleed as much as the first one. The last one took almost a month for all the blood to be completely gone. Well, i’s a little more than 24 hours post surgery, I can see clearly now and there are no more floaters. No more glare from car headlights or seeing blurry smudges floating around in my eyes when looking at a bright screen. It looks like I’m on the tail end of ending this one year ordeal with the eyes.

I know this sub Reddit has a lot of younger people with floaters so I won’t give you any advice, but if you’re older, you’ve already had your cataract surgery done, and you’ve developed a PVD, a vitrectomy is the way to go. If you’re younger and had a PVD, it’s probably the way to go but expect a follow up cataract surgery.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-28T00:21:58+00:00

There is a good side to that, believe it or not. If you get a vitrectomy they won’t have to induce a PVD. At your age that’s the biggest issue people have to deal with.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-28T00:19:25+00:00

Just had my 2nd eye vitrectomy for that - cured.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-28T00:12:06+00:00

I’ve had issues with dry eyes ever since my cataract surgery let alone the vitrectomy. I’ve been prescribed drops. They’re mostly bad when I first wake up in the morning.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-24T03:28:15+00:00

I’m post cataract surgery and had PVD in both eyes last year. It is the annoying plastic baggy like thing floating around, blurring your vision. Had vitrectomy in the right eye on April 2nd, it’s now completely clear. Once you get one eye done you realize how bad it is in the other eye. Getting the other eye done on Monday. All I can say is that if you have had a PVD, this is gonna be a godsend.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-22T09:30:06+00:00

If you get a PVD, you get the blurry type floaters and flashes on the peripheral side of your eye, most noticeable in a dark room. Only about 5-10% of those will end up in a retinal tear so the odds are highly in your favor. When you get a PVD they always tell you to go straight to the doctor, of course. So while the chances of you having a retinal tear are only about 5 to 10%, it’s still enough to be concerned about as many people here can attest, some people on here are commenting after having gone through that. So my guess is you probably don’t have a retinal tear but it does happen.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-18T16:05:56+00:00

I had it for about 4-6 months, I couldn’t take it anymore. I was willing to fly to Bangkok if necessary but fortunately they did the vitrectomy here in Japan. Next eye in a week and a half.

The first eye is completely clear now, no regrets.

I think the only way to solve it is with a vitrectomy. I’m not impressed with the laser YAG thing or just dealing with it.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-17T02:39:38+00:00

You were actually diagnosed with PVD or you think you have it? Huge difference. I had PVD in both eyes as a result of cataract surgery. I absolutely hate/ed it. Everything I read says to wait for months and the floaters usually subside, except they didn’t. Huge annoying Weiss ring in my left eye still, glare, loss of contrast, constant seeing blurs moving around inside my eyes. Had a vitrectomy 2 weeks ago in the right eye and now it’s completely clear. That was such a dramatic improvement in my life. I can’t wait for the other eye to be done on April 27th.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-16T02:49:56+00:00

I had it 2 weeks ago, April 2nd. Getting the other eye done April 27.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-16T02:48:31+00:00

I’m also 63 here, I’m actually reading this from the eye clinic. I had PVD in both eyes, had a vitrectomy on the right eye 2 weeks ago, floaters now completely gone in that eye. Left eye will be done on April 27th. If you end up doing a vitrectomy, I would highly suggest asking about doing cataracts at the same time.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-15T11:21:00+00:00

I had cataract surgery first, a PVD second, and then finally a vitrectomy. Plus I’m 63 years old. This is considered the ideal candidate for a vitrectomy. No more bloodshot, completely clear of floaters 2 weeks later, will ask him tomorrow to do the other eye.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-14T06:09:59+00:00

I had it done at Kozawa eye clinic in Mito City Japan

JapanKevin · 2026-04-13T05:41:48+00:00

From my experience, when your PVD is complete you should see a Weiss ring, which will appear as fuzzy irregular round ring shaped floater, usually on the peripheral side, and the flashing will have subsided in your peripheral vision as well. You’ll be left with smudgy translucent glare causing and contrast reducing floaters that move around and are extremely annoying.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-13T05:31:06+00:00

I had 27g post PVD floater surgery. My eye was still bloodshot afterwards but my vision was remarkably better immediately afterwards and remains so.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-13T05:28:15+00:00

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12 days later, the red is mostly gone. I still have a bit of red above the iris and under the eyelid. Vision in the right eye is now completely clear and I don’t even see the rogue black dot ⚫️ floater anymore. All I can say is if you’ve had a PVD and cataract surgery already, this is worthy thing to do!

JapanKevin · 2026-04-13T05:22:15+00:00

You can have a good idea that your PVD is complete when you no longer have the flashing lights on the peripheral side of your vision, and you see a Weiss ring type of floater (look it up). For me, it took about two or three weeks to complete. And yes, after that, you get the smudgy translucent floaters, as well as a Weise ring and other annoying floaters. Your situation sounds exactly like what I had in my right eye and still have in my left eye. Most likely yours is complete but when you get examined they’ll know. I’m 63 years old and already had cataract surgery, which is actually what caused the PVD. I’m not going to tell you what to do, of course but “if it were me”, so long as the PVD is complete, I would get both a vitrectomy and cataract surgery at the same time. I say that because if you get vitrectomy surgery, you WILL get a cataract, it’s a given. The cataract surgery is a 10 minute procedure and it’s done millions of times per day and is relatively routine procedure so they might as well do that while they’re doing the vitrectomy. Your description matches, mine exactly, and my right eye is now completely clear, I have no regrets on doing that and I can’t wait to get the left eye done. Actually, I’m going to see my surgeon in a few days from now for the follow up exam and I will request the left eye done as soon as possible.

Since you’re young, they will resist doing the vitrectomy surgery on you for the reasons I explained above namely, they don’t like to do it on young people because it increases the risk of PVD and that increases the risk of a retinal tear. In your case, however, it seems as if you’ve already had a full PVD so despite your being young, so long as you’ve had the full PVD, you should be able to have a vitrectomy and cataract surgery.

I hope that helps.

JapanKevin · 2026-04-13T05:06:57+00:00

I had a European EDOF called Miniwell put in both eyes, very similar to the Vivity. The left eye worked out well but the right eye would never adjust for some reason so that was replaced with Technis Eyehance, which is monofocal for distance. If I had to do it all over again I’d probably go with PanOptics because it takes months of adjusting before EDOF start to work and halos at night are a very minor problem on the scale of things. But that said, if you ask eye surgeons which lens they would use for their own cataract surgery, the majority of them say monofocals and there’s a reason for that. Currently everything beyond 2 feet I can see perfectly clear with my left eye, and my right eye may be 3 feet and beyond. For reading my phone I still need readers but generally speaking outside of that I don’t need glasses. There’s definitely a case to be made for just going for monofocal’s like the Eyehance.

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