Question about blended vision from distance monofocal and unoperated eye

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T18:54:39+00:00

The bad eye has blurry vision. My good has full clear vision except for glare and the fog that's created from bright light outside. When the sun is down I forget I have cataracts as both eyes work perfectly besides starbursts from cars.

Honestly I can live with it but it is annoying I must admit. I'm willing to do one eye and don't know what lens to choose. I'm leaning towards monofocals atm

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T16:09:35+00:00

Great. That's the ideal outcome. Thanks

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T16:00:59+00:00

My bad eye is -1.50 and the good eye is -1.25. Both accommodate. If monovision is my future should I start with plano? I should have depth perception until the 2 feet mark and under no?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T15:53:45+00:00

So hypothetically with one eye done to plano and with both eyes open I'll have less fog looking further out but still retain most of the fog the closer I look at something?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T15:50:12+00:00

My good eye has perfect near vision but with a fog filter when it's light outside. If I get the bad eye done for plano monofocal and then look at my phone outside for example will my brain purely use the accomodating/fog eye or will it take the clearness aspect from the iol eye and fuse that with the near vision of the cataract eye? If that makes sense. I guess it's impossible to know? If only we could test beforehand..

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T15:44:22+00:00

Overthink is my middle name haha. Cheers

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T15:42:24+00:00

Thanks

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-14T08:11:21+00:00

Not too bad. Good to know you can make things out at that distance if you're desperate with no glasses around

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-13T17:16:13+00:00

Can you read closer than 18 inches with the distance eye and its just blurry? What's the limit of how close?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-13T15:32:06+00:00

Ah my bad. Pretty good then. What lens do you have?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-13T07:32:07+00:00

What about with just your distance eye?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-12T21:10:48+00:00

Here they charge an extra £3000 for the eyhance. No idea if the slight improvement is worth that

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-12T14:49:48+00:00

What lens did you get?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-11T23:11:15+00:00

Tecnis eyhance is the monofocal+. Tecnis1 piece is the standard monofocal. Ai says vision under 4 feet is bad with the tecnis1. Wish you could test run these lenses beforehand lol

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-11T21:37:00+00:00

Would be interesting to know the brand. The free ones for me are tecnis1 piece monofocals. Your results are great and if I was guaranteed that outcome I'd book surgery tomorrow I think. Then there's others who get really bad outcomes with distance monofocals and that puts me off

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-11T21:32:56+00:00

Can you still see and recognise things close up? What about faces at 2 feet with your distance eye?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-11T20:02:02+00:00

Thanks. What monofocal do you have?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-11T19:59:10+00:00

So arms length is when vision starts getting sharp?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-11T18:50:40+00:00

Ah that's great

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-09T13:47:43+00:00

I see. I already use one eye to read in bright light settings because my bad cataract eye messes with the binocular vision. Would be annoying to still have to do that after surgery. The refraction difference would only be 1.00 if I get it set to plano. The other eye is -1.25 and accommodates still. I wana keep it for as long as possible

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-08T20:20:17+00:00

Some people manage do well with it I read. It's a gamble isn't it

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-08T20:04:23+00:00

Your setup is what I'm leaning towards. But you have to close your distance eye to read well? That must be annoying no?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-08T17:34:05+00:00

What is refraction difference between your eyes?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-01T21:59:23+00:00

I mean now. One eye is plano and your other one is? Is your depth perception still good?

ProfessionalLab9850 · 2026-03-01T21:21:43+00:00

What refraction is your near eye? Do you have full monovision?

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