If you wear contact lenses, it’s important that you don’t keep them in your eyes for any extended period of time unless they're specifically designed for long wear. Essentially, this can end up causing permanent damage to your eyes.
If you have any impairment of vision or uncommon pain in your eyes, it is important to have an eye exam to determine the cause. Early detection and treatment is essential to saving your health and vision.
Do you get headaches or suffer from motion sickness when seeing a movie in 3-D? This can be a sign that you may have a problem with depth perception.
What should I expect from the surgery to remove my cataracts? Your ophthalmologist can offer more specifics, but in general, the cloudy lens is removed and an artificial lens is implanted. You will need a ride to get home and should expect to wear an eye patch for at least several days.
If you have cataracts that require surgery in both of your eyes, your ophthalmologist will perform the operation on one eye first. Once it has healed (four to eight weeks later), he or she will treat the other eye.
If you have poorly fitting contacts, then you are asking for eye trouble. Indeed, some 60 percent of the contact-wearing population has contacts that do not fit properly, a problem which can lead to serious corneal damage. If you suspect ill-fitting contacts, see your ophthalmologist right away.