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As long as you have your own lens you can get cataracts. So although 
someone has Lasik to correct the focal point of their own lens, they can 
still get cataracts and have to have an implant later on.

I was actually quite young to get cataracts. However, I started wearing 
contacts in 1970 before they had gas permeable material. Turns out I was 
depriving my eye of oxygen for some number of years and which brought on 
the cataracts at a young age. However, being close to legally bind and 
not have to have any correction (except for reading) isn't so bad. So 
don't mind me if some day if I tack it to your back and follow you - I'm 
not drafting I'm reading my map ;-) .

Truman

Amber B Fort wrote:

> OMGosh, I hadn't even thought about being able to swim with out the 
> worry of losing a lense.  I really wish all I had to do was the Lasik 
> procedure. 
>
> However, with my severe nearsightedness (-8 in both eyes in contacts, 
> 'What chart?"), Doc said it would be pushing the envelope for Lasik.  
> + the problem of the cateracts, so will be getting the lense 
> implants.  So it looks like I will be going for my post op stuff on 
> the 11th, surgery for left eye on the 18th, right eye on the 25th.
>
> At one time I did have the astigmatisms in both eyes, however about 5 
> years ago, they self corrected.  Never knew that could happen and was 
> thankfull that it did.


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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what 
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."  - 
Bertrand Russell




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