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Thread #106997   Message #3650088
Posted By: Bill D
11-Aug-14 - 10:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: seeing rainbows, cataracts?
Subject: RE: BS: seeing rainbows, cataracts?
Just a heads up... my first one, the left eye, went perfectly. The right one seemed to, but then I developed something called 'secondary membrane'...some sort of re-growth of cataract material.
They deal with that by zapping it with a YAG laser1, which solved one problem, but left me with 'floaters' the size of Rhode Island. To this day, although my vision is ok, I still have 'stuff' under the implant which makes my right eye tired and fuzzy at times.




1) what is a YAG laser? It is named for the major components ..yttrium aluminium garnet...
It seemed like an odd name until I realized that they would likely never call it a GAY laser. (And AYG & AGY are hard to pronounce.)
I asked my surgeon about that, and he said: "Oh... I never thought about that before."