It’s only been a week, but I kind of hate them. Considering old-man bifocals now.

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    Just a note for anyone getting older: when you get your cataract surgery, when they insert the new lens into your eye, they can make that lens a prescription lens. And one thing you might consider doing is requesting that one lens be made slightly long-distance and the other slightly near-distance.

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      8 days ago

      You can do that before cataracts. They’re called Implantable Collamer Lenses. I got ICL surgery* done because my astigmatism is so bad I can’t do laser.

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      when you get your cataract surgery

      Not everyone gets cataracts

      they can make that lens a prescription lens

      What would be the point of implanting a “lens” with no optical power?

      I think what you’re trying to say is that the implanted lens can be varifocal rather than monofocal.