Can you pop the left lens out while you await the new glasses?
Before I got my prism lenses I tried black static cling film on one lens of sunglasses (binocular dbl vision goes away when one eye isn’t participating). Meh…
It’s been 3 days (since YAG) and the floaters are pretty bad, like a dragonfly or two flying around right in front of my face. A bit annoying.
Sorry about the late reply. For some reason, the “Reply” button wasn’t working for a couple of days. I think it was Aliens, since they’re all the rage now. 
I’ve considered popping out a lens a few times, and was going to buy another set at the grocery store (in case something went wrong). But with the new glasses on their way decided to wait a bit. Sadly they didn’t arrive this week, so I may try this solution today.
I had my lens zapped today at the surgery center.
Scarring is a common side effect from Cataract surgery. Our bodies see the new lens as foreign objects. A year or so later my vision got a little foggy.
I could still read the movie listings on Amazon Prime. But they were fuzzy.
The ophthalmologist used a laser to zap that film off my lens. Felt no pain. There was a low sizzle as he zapped with the laser.
I had to wear eye shades home. Couldn’t drive. I was warned my vision would be blurry for a few hours. I may notice floaters for a few days.
It’s been 8 hours and I can see improvement. It’s like adjusting Contrast on a tv or in a photo editor. Letters on the tv are blacker and sharp.
Yay!
Update, I found my surgery post in this thread. July 2022 and the other eye Sept 2022.
Took 2 years before the lens film required laser correction.
I just had the YAG cap procedure on my left eye two days ago. My vision was clearer immediately - the “Vaseline” effect was gone! For some reason, in the last few weeks, I really started noticing the blurry, cloudy effect out of that eye and just could not take it anymore and went back to the ophthalmologist, who recommended doing the procedure. I was able to drive myself home, even.
I was dreading it a little bit, honestly, because it’s my understanding that the laser is actually making a hole in the back of the lens capsule. That doesn’t sound…great? But it seems to be a very effective treatment, now that I’ve had it done. I was also concerned about extra floaters since I already have many large ones in each eye (was very nearsighted ever since childhood), but so far there seem to be about three new floaters that are very small and not bothersome. One of them in the top left “corner” of my vision does catch my attention because it looks like a fly in the corner of my eye, but it’s still not bothersome.
Question regarding physicals and cataract surgery. I’ll be asking come monday, but curious what answer I can expect. One year prior to the upcoming surgery I had a Cardiac Stress Test. Do you think they will accept that in lieu of another physical?
The general concern is often anaesthesia, and a lot may depend on your age and the type they’ll use. When I had mine done about ten years ago I was under a kind of twilight anaesthesia, and all they asked was my weight so they could dose appropriately; when I had surgery on my spine a week ago — age 77 — I was under general anaesthesia, and had to undergo something called “peri-op” where they did an ecg and blood work and came up with a 6% chance of “complications” (dunno whether they used a Ouija board or Magic 8 Ball).
Jeez - how are you doing now? (surgery is likely in my future; MRI was just approved by insurance)
It’s long past Monday - what did they say? I would imagine that would do, but I honestly don’t know.
I’ve got upcoming surgery (completely unrelated to the eyes) and the doctor is asking for some bloodwork, not naything else as far as i can tell (I see the surgeon for a pre-op consult next week - and it happens I already had an appointment with my primary care doc between that and the surgery).
I did have my cardiologist send “it’s okay” notices for several procedures.
In fact cardio approval held me up on getting SEVERAL things done. They were not optional, but also not super-urgent. I imagine that if they had been more urgent, I might have had it done in a different place (e.g. colonoscopy at a hospital versus standalone clinic) or with a higher level of monitoring.
They said I would get a paper for my doctor to sign and that it normally isn’t a big deal.