# Cataract surgery lens

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cataract-surgery-lens/565983>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 31, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cataract-surgery-lens/565983 "2010-12-31T20:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cataract-surgery-lens/565983/21 "2011-01-19T22:21:10Z")

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Yes, I do have occasional flashes of light. My surgeries were over a month ago, and I had to get a new prescription. I’ll see the doc again next month. He said that it will take a while for my vision to get to what we want due to my prior RK. I haven’t noticed any improvement at all since the surgeries.

I have really long eyeballs, too. As a result, I have developed “myopic degeneration.” This results in macular degenerative type drusen, but it is not macular. I don’t know if the source of the drusen makes a difference, but apparently it does.

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