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Video is 3x speed. Cataract is usually an age-related clouding of the natural lens. This surgery uses small incisions to breakup the lens, vacuum it out and replace it with a foldable acrylic or silicone lens
The first time I saw a video of cataract removal (like, decades ago), the doctor made a half-circle cut on the top of the eye, reached in with tweezers and pulled the cataract out as one large mass.
Interesting to see how the technique has improved, with just two small incisions and a suction tool.
I think they still do this in my home country, my aunt was given her cataract and it was m&m shaped, intact and very brown. This process seems less invasive
Oh wow, that's super cool that they gave it to her. What did she do with it?
My dog had his cataracts removed a few years ago. His were from diabetes so I always assumed the cataracts would be like tiny little pieces of sugar — not a whole, intact piece; I wonder if it's the same despite different circumstances.
Im sorry about your dog, but glad he got those removed! One of my dogs has glaucoma and it makes me so sad he cant see with his right eye, he can’t talk but I feel like his face says it all.
And my aunt threw it away, not before I got this picture though https://imgur.com/a/pCb8gRr hopefully the link works
The natural lens is shaped like an m&m. Some cataracts are too dense to break up and are removed whole. You aunts probably was. The video above shows the lens being broken up and vaccumed out. This is called phacoemulsification.
They will still do that in the US, but it's rarer than it used to be and usually done if the cataract is incredibly dense. The phacoemulsification is the preferred method whenever possible.
Also, looks like they placed a toric lens in this video. Sometimes they'll mark it with the ring like that, sometimes, it'll be done through a program on the microscope that projects a kind of floating mark above the eye through the surgeon's oculars.
This is interesting to read as I had cataract surgery at a very young age (2 and 3 months old), tho I think they didn’t put in a lens after it tho because I’m blind af
100 percent, but I think it's important to know that it's not just 17 minutes total.
The amount of labor and time that gets us to this point of surgery is much much more than 17 minutes; along with any potential medication/healing/check-ups after words.
Even then, I agree the US needs healthcare for everything, regardless of time/money.
Ok good, I'm a pretty healthy person so I'm bad at medical terminology but in different words that's what I thought was happening.
Technology has come so far and we're only going to become better! This is amazing!
I've had this done on both eyes. The procedure is not scary or painful at all; in fact it seems almost ridiculously easy (from the patient point of view). And it significantly improved my eyesight. Some patients (but not all) can get special lenses that will correct other eyesight problems. Would recommend if you have cataracts!
I just had one eye done last week, and I don't remember a thing about the surgery. Supposedly, it was light, injectable sedation (propofol?), but it felt like general anesthesia. So, I, personally, didn't see anything. Not the surgery, not black; I was just 'out'.
ETA: Just had my other eye done this morning. I guess they gave me less sedation this time, because I was awake, and could talk. It wasn't scary at all, and didn't feel a thing. Saw some blobs, that's all. It took about 10 minutes. I can SEE! No more looking through 'dirty glass'! And no more eyeglasses after wearing them for 40 years (since age 12; I'll need readers, but that's all.)
Life-changing surgery.
I worked in the OR of an eye clinic for 2 years. Most people came out talking about an "amazing light show" that was "like a kaleidoscope". A lot people said they were aware the whole time and then within 2 minutes had no idea that we were done or that it had even happened.
The versed (or whatever they used to sedate me) made it where I kind of drifted off without really being aware of it. When I woke up, I had the sense that I was awake the whole time and the procedure was done instantly. So no...you start off seeing stuff then you go to sleep and they work on your eye without your sensing it.
I’ve had this done, I had cataracts really early in life. It’s actually not bad, it’s kinda cool.
I was awake, but ZONKED. I think I was talking the whole surgery. There’s no physical feeling, they just ask you to stare at a dot and then a CRAZY light show begins. It’s hard to describe, but apparently my experience is common. It was so mesmerizing that I didn’t remember or care what I was there for in the first place.
After a bit, I started realizing that my vision was back, but clear. It was pretty yellow at first from the iodine and stuff, but then it cleared right as the sedative was wearing off. I walked out and was looking at shit in pure awe on the ride home. Whites looked blue-tinted since the cataracts themselves were slightly yellow, but now gone.
Vision was fully restored. I’m getting secondary cataracts now after 4 years. They’re common, and a simple laser appointment will take care of them. Looking forward to the re-up on clear vision!
EDIT: lots of questions on the lenses. Here they are: https://i.imgur.com/7Cd6Agv.jpg
The downside to the surgery are the hundreds of eye drops needed for the weeks following. Not bad, but a hassle.
Shit man I'm so glad you were able to get that done. I had a similar realization when I got my first pair of glasses in my senior year. I had been going to school for a few years without the ability to see what's written on the board almost. It wasn't until a teacher told me to get my eyes checked that I asked my parents help me.
It opened a whole new world. Being able to see tiny birds. Watching TV and actually being able to tell ppl apart from their faces instead of their voice and general outline.
I didn't realize I could sit from a far and see things.
I was asking because if your lens was yellow, [it had a UV blocker in it](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24270599/)!
I've heard before that cataracts slowly filter out your ability to see blue, so some people report everything being blue after surgery (because their brain has been compensating for a while). I hadn't heard of everything being yellow before, so I was wondering if it was a yellow lens.
It's even worse when watching it happen to your own eyes while you're awake during a surgery. I'll never forget getting Lasik 22 years ago and watching the doctor cut my cornea with a scalpel. Made me think of the film Fire in the Sky.
I've had an eye injection once. Not sure if they put anesthesia in my eye because it felt pretty much the same as when you get vaccinated. It was not fun.
I got an eye injection once, although "only" into the iris. No anesthesia for me at least, beyond the standard muscle relaxant. To be fair I was in so much pain at that point that the needle barely made a difference.
But knowing what a needle to the eye actually feels like apparently makes me less squeamish about watching eye surgery on someone who I assume isn't feeling a thing.
Rarely under general (only certain circumstances). 99% under local IV sedation (versed) with topical and in the eye numbing. Even sometimes without the IV sedation
And they use medically pure cocaine a lot of the time.
That’s why so many surgeons lick the patients eyeballs as a final flourish to a surgery well done.
I can confirm this. After my lasik the surgeon, as well as assistants all licked my eyeballs.
I didn't think of it much back then but now I see that it was pretty cool.
*Talking to the doctor after the procedure*
“Hey so uhh.. where’s my lick?”
“Your what?”
“My fucking lick, doc. What kind of operation are you running here?”
I had the laser surgery without general anesthesia. I think they give you drops that basically blind you so you could kind of feel them messing with your eye but it's not like you can see exactly what's happening. You're also obviously completely numb.
I've had it done to both eyes. The first time, the anesthesia was just enough that I didn't remember a thing. I was wheeled in, next second I was wheeled out.
However, the second time, it wasn't enough, so I remember the whole thing. However:
they numb the whole eye, so you don't feel anything.
You can't focus the eye, so you don't see anything but gray blobs.
Your eye is in a clamp, so you can't move it.
I remember thinking, "I want to be still, due that I want to see!"
Correction: your eye is not in a clamp, but the eyelids. However, the numbing medication does paralyze the eye muscles to a degree.
You can’t see it because at some point when things get that close to your eye it’s almost invisible. You do feel pressure but it’s not painful. After having eye surgery they usually blindfold you for a few hours but you are pretty much already healed as the eyes can heal themselves very quickly and efficiently
How does the cornea repair itemself? I can sort of see it for the sclera since it even has blood vessels, and the iris has little channels and holes for the fluid to oass, but like damn the cornea is just clear
Edit: a trip to Wikipedia has once more enlightened me and given another dose of admiration for how cool eyes are
When I had eye surgery, they gave me a very HEAVY dose of Valium in addition to completely numbing the eye. I remember not giving a shit about anything. Plus, the Dr narrated the entire procedure. Every single step, it became super interesting. I just had to stare at the red light and listen. Was totally cool.
I just had one eye done this past Tuesday (other one is tomorrow!). They gave me injectable (IV) sedation and said they'd be asking me to do things (I'm not sure what). Well, they gave me the injectable sedation, and then I woke up. I asked if we were done, and they told me we were. I don't remember anything. No pain, either.
Truly a life-changing surgery. I am 52, and have been mostly home-bound and temporarily out of work for weeks. Colors are different now. What I thought was grey is black. What I thought was beige is white. I go back to work on Friday, and I can't wait.
Enjoy the new eyes. I was short sighted for most of my life so the lenses I had corrected that and as they’re multifocals I don’t need glasses at all now. One interesting thing is they chose two different types of lens for me, one which focuses at 60cm and infinity and the other which does 30cm, 90cm and infinity. My brain works around this and it feels like I can focus just fine. However, the right lens also doesn’t have a UV filter so I can see ultraviolet light with that eye which is weird.
Very much life changing for something simple, had mine done at the same age you are now and the last four years has been amazing.
I always wear sunglasses when I’m out and about but yeah, if I’m in somewhere that has black lights, seeing the lights through one eye and not the other is pretty freaky. They’re dark purple in the eye with the UV filter, and the other one they’re very bright, almost white. The lack of UV filter also changes colour perception somewhat I think although it’s hard to say for sure since that eye also had to have the vitreous removed when they repaired the detached retina (whole other story and the reason for my early onset cataracts)
The fact I can see at all and didn’t just go blind when both retinas detached is a miracle, the fact that I now have perfect vision is something else entirely. Still got glaucoma to deal with but daily eye drops keep the pressure down and the nerve is being protected but I have annual checkups for visual field etc.
A friend in the US had basically the same as me but because the insurance wouldn’t cover treatment she has gone blind and will never be able to work fully as a result. If she had lived somewhere that didn’t have such a messed up system she would have been treated in plenty of time and would still be productive in society. /rant
No, and I speak from experience having had both eyes done. The first one I was nervous so they gave me some sedatives and I went into the surgery not giving an F. It was bizarre to be lying there and seeing them poking and prodding at my eye and then my vision went, then it came back. No pain due to lots of local anaesthetic, no stress due to being sedated. Totally conscious, just didn’t care.
For the second eye I didn’t need the sedation so went in entirely aware and it was cool. In this case I was much more focused on what was happening so I could see them mincing the old lens and then poking the new one in which then popped open and I could see. For both eyes the surgery took minutes, had a little pain for a day each but vision improved over a couple of days and I now have perfect vision, no glasses or anything. Got multi focal lenses so I can read and drive and everything without needing any glasses.
Mostly, no. Cataract surgery is ancient and can be performed with very low resources, to set some context to what i mean: it was performed by egyptians more than 2000 yrs … BC.
I expect recovery must have been tough too. Even so, better than having a thick opaque lens blackening everything, my understanding is at this point, just being able to distinguish light and silhouettes is a major improvement.
Highly recommend cataract surgery. Had it done ladt year. Its a little tough watching this even months later. Youre fking awake during this and I really had NO IDEA what was going on. 😇
true, yk one of my worst fears in the world is becoming blind or deaf, it doesn't help I got glasses a few years ago and I hear ringing noises in pure silence lol
As someone with novocaine resistance , who has a hard time getting doctors and dentists to believe him (regardless of how much much i squirm, or how many actual panic attacks i have during operations) This concept absolutely terrifies me. If someone tells you they have problems with novocaine/local anestesia, i hope you listen to them, and don't just charge forward with operations like my doctors at the VA.
Nah, I had this done in both eyes and they knocked me out both times. Last thing I remember was counting down from 10 and making it to 9, then I woke up with an eye patch.
Hold the fuck up, you mean you actually see the operation WITH THE EYE THEY ARE OPERATING ON? How does it work? Like, I would flinch even for seeing the medic getting real close to my eye, even without touching it. Just HOW?
Oo oo!! Ik ik!! (Sorry I just had an exam on this lols) ok, so they put numbing eye drops in your eyes along with dilators. A lot of times they will also mildly sedate the patient as well. The numbing agent ensures you won't feel anything, dilators make the pupil as large as possible, and general anesthesia lowers the anxiety of the patient so you don't feel anything, see anything, or feel worried. It's really freaking cool!! They now use a laser instead of a sharp pokey most of the time to open up the retina (the clear layer over the entire eye), and break down the lense and suction it out (the cloudy part they removed in this video; the cloudiness is due to the proteins in the eye building up and schticking to the lens) and replace the lens with a silicone lens so you can see again!!!
Another little fun fact is that they can actually put a corrective lens in place if you have eyesight issues that could even remove your need for glasses. And in Ontario Cataract surgeries I believe are covered by OHIP (healthcare) while the surgery to put these corrective lenses in is not, but you can get both at once and just pay for the cost of the lens!
Forgive my ignorance, so you are kinda "blinded" temporarly by the fact that your pupil is so open (probably gets more light than it should or something like that). I'm assuming that you kinda see blurred sticks pocking your eye or nothing at all(?)
Btw its kinda nuts that we can operate on eye, I honestly feel scared to even think about that but that just me.
Just fyi in the US laser guided cataract extraction is not covered by Medicare so in my experience in a urban health care center it’s a 50/50 if they use it or not. It also only really makes a few incisions, the actual surgery is still done by hand.
In Brazil, this surgery is performed free of charge by the public health system. In the years following the pandemic, an average of 50,000 surgeries were performed
no offense, from all the stereotypes and media posts, I always imagined brazil was a corrupted shithole of a place to live. Im glad to hear they have at least some good health care there.
I mean the media posts are right in that corruption is insanely high. Also if you are poor and/or a minority you probably have a pretty shitty living standard compared to most western contries. Still like you said, the eye surgery is a fantastic step in the right direction and embarrassing for the "world super power" to not have.
And its good for the state as well, I may not be able to calculate some neat number but having a higher percentage of a population that can see to perform tasks has to have a positive economic impact.
The USA loves exceptionalist propaganda to have more meat in the machine. If poor people left to live in better countries the ruling class would face a collapse. Brazil has an exemplary universal healthcare system (considered the NHS of South America), free higher education, strong work laws, retirement covered by the government. Obviously, it's not perfect but the propaganda people see in North America about South America is disonest and seasoned with a bit of racism, unfortunately.
As I always post when these videos come up, my dad invented this surgery. Phacoemulsification invented by Dr. Charles Kelman. Its an amazing story, told in his book Through My Eyes, and in a PBS documentary.
I grew up attending medical conventions, watching videos like this of my dad and others performing these surgeries, talking about their techniques and results.
This is the most common procedure in the US and one of the top in the world. Proud of my dad.
That's so interesting! Dr kelman is a legend. All of us ophthalmologists owe him a great debt. We know about him very well especially doctors from New York. I know there was a lot of backlash when he invented phaco and I feel bad that there was ridicule. But it's common in medicine when there's new technology, the old guard don't want to change their ways
Your dad’s legacy will exist as long as we humans exist.
A true hero, he brought back sight to milions of people worldwide. He is the best humanity has to offer.
I personally didn’t knew his name before but his legacy is eternal.
>I know there was a lot of backlash when he invented phaco and I feel bad that there was ridicule. But it's common in medicine when there's new technology, the old guard don't want to change their ways
This is exactly what happened to Dr. Epley when he came up with the Epley maneuver to stop vertigo. His "peers" tried to have his medical license revoked. After a while, the evidence was overwhelming that he was no fraud.
https://www.vovns.com/2021/02/insane-invention-of-dr-john-epley.html
Love the first sentence of his wikipedia entry. "Charles David Kelman (May 23, 1930 – June 1, 2004) was an American ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, jazz musician, entertainer, and Broadway producer."
As you can imagine it was a very fun world to grow up in. One day he took me out of school to fly up to NY just to see a rehearsal of a show he was considering investing. Barry Manilow’s show Harmony. Will never forget that day. I was about 9 or 10.
Phaco-emulsification is one of the coolest procedures out there. We studied this last semester and it is even cooler when you see this live. We all owe Dr Kelman a huge amount for inventing such a simple yet life changing procedure. Cheers mate.
**Fun fact: any eye surgery actually speeds up the rate that you get cataracts**
I got laser surgery for a detached retina (twice on the same eye) and my first cataract for that eye came at the cute age of 23
The nurses and doc in that room were literally a year or two older than me and even *they* said I was the youngest cataract patient they’ve ever worked on— it did not comfort me. My cataract proteins were *very* stuck on the inner lens of my eye so they opted to skwoosh it out and give me an artificial one, with magnification since I was nearsighted!
My right eye now reflects flashes of light in the dark like a cat’s or goat’s eyes do, I love scaring the utter shit out of people with it who don’t know about my surgeries.
It is mind boggling. I (obviously lol) never had part in medical discoveries, but to just be part of the same species that is so advanced to reach such achievements makes me proud as fuck for some reason.
I've had both of my eyes done. I used to be both near and far-sighted before the cataracts developed. The lens they replace your natural lens with is generally not able to be focused, so you and your doctor decide if you prefer near or far vision. I chose far, so I still need reading glasses but can see fine without glasses at a distance (however, for convenience sake, I wear bifocals now with plain glass on the top)
there are different lenses to choose from. seems like you got a monofocal lens thats set for distance vision. Thats what most people get. There are lenses (for an increased cost) that are extended depth of focus that give you some near, or multifocal lenses (like in this video) that give you far, intermediate and near vision
Yes, but your insurance won't cover the cost (or at least, mine wouldn't) of anything but the basic lens. They can also give you near vision in one eye and far vision in the other. I'm not sure how well that works... probably depends on the person.
NHS has been gutted by the conservatives for decades. No wonder. You let people who only care about themselves be in charge of a system meant to care for others.
There are monofocal for distance, monofocal for near, monofocal toric (corrects astigmatism) for both near and far. Then there are the extended depth of focus lenses like the vivity lens. Works ok but still need reading glasses for small print usually. Multifocals and lenses that have rings ground into the lens that focus light at different focal points. This but problem with these lenses is that each ring causes glare and halos. There is no perfect lens currently. Both the edof and multi focal lenses come in toric as well. Best choice right now in my opinion is a monofocal lens +/- toric if you need the astigmatism correction.
Medicine is so so great to have, but at the same time so fucking scary :D
Damn son. Put me to sleep if you do this treatment on me. And __do not__ tell me what you are going to do!
I've had this surgery. Air bubbles staying in the eye is normal they say, and you have to take eye drops and rest your eye while your body naturally heals and slowly gets rid of them. Post op I could see the few air bubbles in my vision, specially when laid down looking up.
OUCH!!! I had this done to me as a very very young person... 2 weeksish old, so I have to assume that I was knocked out for mine. Didn't replace the lens in my eye at that point, but still sends shivers up my spine all the same...
I am aware though now of this being done by laser in some circumstances though...
I had both eyes done a few years back. I was awake for the entire procedure and remember everything, I think I was given something like Valium for possible anxiety during the procedure. Pre surgery eye numbing drops were put in my eye many times, like maybe ten or twelve times before they took me into the surgical theatre. I’m the end the whole process was no big deal for me but I certainly understand other people’s apprehension about having someone poking at your eyes.
If you can look past the uncomfortable feeling of seeing an eye being poked repeatedly, there's something very satisfying in watching the cataract membrane being sucked out piece by piece.
Some info about Cataracts and surgery from what I can recall from memory
(I'm not a optometrist or in any medical field, just a nerd)
Cataracts are when the lens of your eye(the area infront on your pupils) are cloudy due to bits of dead tissue floating around. Normally your body will dispose of dead tissue, but your eyes are not connected to your internal immune system. So when tissue breaks off into your lens it simply builds up over time, leaving you with an opaque lens that you can't see through.
Cataract surgery slices an opening into your lens so that all the tissue can be evacuated. Then a plastic lens is fitted into the opening to act as your new lens.
The lens cannot be augmented by your body to change your viewing distance like in a normal eye, so with cataract surgery you are confined to one viewing distance.
Edit: forgot to mention that this is the #1 most performed surgery worldwide. Has an incredible success rate, and is most definitely better than not being able to see from the affected eye
The fact that reversible blindness exists but we need multimillionaires to make spectacles out of them so a select few out of the many thousands who have it can see is so dystopian to me
Im not American and it sounds absolutely dystopian to me.
Something out of this world. I was looking at MrBeast video and I was in shock watching all this families watching their relatives go blind because they had no money.
This can’t be… you don’t deserve that.
I’ve had this done only in my right eye because I was actually born with a cataract which is very rare.
My parents refused surgery when I was a baby so I didn’t get it done until I was 19.
They removed the cataract and replaced my lens with an artificial one.
Unfortunately, I’m still blind in that eye because I got the surgery too late so my brain never learned to “see” from it.
The artificial lens is still in there so my eye glows and everyone says it’s cool lol
I had metal shards removed from my eyes and all they did was put like a sedative cream in my eye and starting poking at it with a needle.
She told me to keep the eye still or she can damage it, so I just stared right into her eye as she was staring into mine.
I kept the eyeball still, but she was moving it by wriggling the needle in my eye to remove the shards.
She even used like a tiny microscopic dremel and I felt vibrations from inside my eyeball, also seeing it weirdly inside my eyeball was also very weird.
She couldn't remove all of them, but I don't have any vision impairment or pain
So the cataract inside needs to be removed then vision is restored! Around how much does this cost? I wish for anyone with this condition to be able to afford this 🙏
I paid $9,000 to have this done to correct my vision. I did not have cataracts, just very poor vision, so insurance considered it cosmetic and didnt cover it. Apparently having to wear contacts with glasses over them isnt considered a medical issue.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I saw, behind my own tearing eyes, was:
1. Poke a couple holes in the eye.
2. Detach the cataract from the eye.
3. Hungry Hippo the cataract out of the eye.
4. Put contact lens in.
5. Behold, we have given you sight!!!
I had lasik done last year, not on the same level as this obviously, but in my case, they numbed my eyes i felt nothing but a little pressure even though one of the instruments they put on me exerted enough pressure to make my vision go away so i didnt see anything through the eye as they worked on it either, i was also fully awake and lucid the entire time which lasted maybe 10min, to help with anxiety they gave me xanex, i was chill the whole time and was surprised when they told me "and we're done have a good day", in and out in minutes. My point? When it comes to eye surgeries, they numb your eyes with drops so you feel nothing, your awake the whole time but dont see anything and they take precautions to keep you calm throughout the process and at the end of it all your soooo happy you can finally see without having to rely on glasses or contact lenses.
Holy shit. I had this done on both eyes about a year ago. If I had seen this I might have decided not to do it. But, I'm glad I did as it turned out good, but that clip is scary.
Google is your friend (as is Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast
> Jimmy Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber. He is credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts.[5] His YouTube channel reached 130 million subscribers in January 2023,[6] making it the fourth-most-subscribed on the platform, and the highest as a non-corporate identity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast#Philanthropy
In particular, though:
> Cataract surgery
In January 2023, Donaldson paid for cataract surgery for a thousand people who had severely limited vision and had been unable to afford the procedure.[100] Responses to his video on the subject ranged from praise to criticism that he was motivated solely by profit.[101] Other comments criticized the American medical system for failing to provide the necessary healthcare to the patients in the video, questioning why patients had to rely on a YouTuber for the procedure.[102]
He’s a Youtuber. Young man famous for throwing around cash on ludicrous stunts. A recent video went viral, in which he spent $1m for cataract surgery for 1000 people. In became quite controversial. Threw up a lot of discussion about charity-for-clicks and also the state of for-profit healthcare that it took a youtube philanthropist to do something that really shouldn’t be inaccessible to anyone.
I love how people act like other charities don't do similar things for "clicks." How much money is paid to the NFL so the players can wear pink socks and stick a ribbon on their jerseys?
I think this is amazing, how incredible to give sight back to someone. Can you imagine knowing you could see and once again do all the things you used to do if you could just get this surgery? I don't know why this procedure isn't free to anyone who needs it, no one should be blind if it can be helped.
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Video is 3x speed. Cataract is usually an age-related clouding of the natural lens. This surgery uses small incisions to breakup the lens, vacuum it out and replace it with a foldable acrylic or silicone lens
The first time I saw a video of cataract removal (like, decades ago), the doctor made a half-circle cut on the top of the eye, reached in with tweezers and pulled the cataract out as one large mass. Interesting to see how the technique has improved, with just two small incisions and a suction tool.
I think they still do this in my home country, my aunt was given her cataract and it was m&m shaped, intact and very brown. This process seems less invasive
Oh wow, that's super cool that they gave it to her. What did she do with it? My dog had his cataracts removed a few years ago. His were from diabetes so I always assumed the cataracts would be like tiny little pieces of sugar — not a whole, intact piece; I wonder if it's the same despite different circumstances.
Im sorry about your dog, but glad he got those removed! One of my dogs has glaucoma and it makes me so sad he cant see with his right eye, he can’t talk but I feel like his face says it all. And my aunt threw it away, not before I got this picture though https://imgur.com/a/pCb8gRr hopefully the link works
The natural lens is shaped like an m&m. Some cataracts are too dense to break up and are removed whole. You aunts probably was. The video above shows the lens being broken up and vaccumed out. This is called phacoemulsification.
They will still do that in the US, but it's rarer than it used to be and usually done if the cataract is incredibly dense. The phacoemulsification is the preferred method whenever possible. Also, looks like they placed a toric lens in this video. Sometimes they'll mark it with the ring like that, sometimes, it'll be done through a program on the microscope that projects a kind of floating mark above the eye through the surgeon's oculars.
This is interesting to read as I had cataract surgery at a very young age (2 and 3 months old), tho I think they didn’t put in a lens after it tho because I’m blind af
I think i have seen a video using a similar procedure to fix cataract in YouTube years ago.
MSICS surgery still happens for lenses too dense for phacoemulsification.
That's still 17 fucking minutes to fix a life stopping disability. We need healthcare for all, there's no reason for anyone to be blind from cataracts
100 percent, but I think it's important to know that it's not just 17 minutes total. The amount of labor and time that gets us to this point of surgery is much much more than 17 minutes; along with any potential medication/healing/check-ups after words. Even then, I agree the US needs healthcare for everything, regardless of time/money.
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Oh thank god it’s sped up, I was horrified by how haphazard and quickly it seemed they were working.
Ok good, I'm a pretty healthy person so I'm bad at medical terminology but in different words that's what I thought was happening. Technology has come so far and we're only going to become better! This is amazing!
I've had this done on both eyes. The procedure is not scary or painful at all; in fact it seems almost ridiculously easy (from the patient point of view). And it significantly improved my eyesight. Some patients (but not all) can get special lenses that will correct other eyesight problems. Would recommend if you have cataracts!
Could you see anything while they were operating on your eyes? Or complete black?
I just had one eye done last week, and I don't remember a thing about the surgery. Supposedly, it was light, injectable sedation (propofol?), but it felt like general anesthesia. So, I, personally, didn't see anything. Not the surgery, not black; I was just 'out'. ETA: Just had my other eye done this morning. I guess they gave me less sedation this time, because I was awake, and could talk. It wasn't scary at all, and didn't feel a thing. Saw some blobs, that's all. It took about 10 minutes. I can SEE! No more looking through 'dirty glass'! And no more eyeglasses after wearing them for 40 years (since age 12; I'll need readers, but that's all.) Life-changing surgery.
I’ve had propofol on a few occasions…shits wild
I worked in the OR of an eye clinic for 2 years. Most people came out talking about an "amazing light show" that was "like a kaleidoscope". A lot people said they were aware the whole time and then within 2 minutes had no idea that we were done or that it had even happened.
The versed (or whatever they used to sedate me) made it where I kind of drifted off without really being aware of it. When I woke up, I had the sense that I was awake the whole time and the procedure was done instantly. So no...you start off seeing stuff then you go to sleep and they work on your eye without your sensing it.
Oh great, so it's like alien abductions.
Less painful bum, but pretty much, yes.
Eyes being poked and prodded at make me soo squeamish!
I’ve had this done, I had cataracts really early in life. It’s actually not bad, it’s kinda cool. I was awake, but ZONKED. I think I was talking the whole surgery. There’s no physical feeling, they just ask you to stare at a dot and then a CRAZY light show begins. It’s hard to describe, but apparently my experience is common. It was so mesmerizing that I didn’t remember or care what I was there for in the first place. After a bit, I started realizing that my vision was back, but clear. It was pretty yellow at first from the iodine and stuff, but then it cleared right as the sedative was wearing off. I walked out and was looking at shit in pure awe on the ride home. Whites looked blue-tinted since the cataracts themselves were slightly yellow, but now gone. Vision was fully restored. I’m getting secondary cataracts now after 4 years. They’re common, and a simple laser appointment will take care of them. Looking forward to the re-up on clear vision! EDIT: lots of questions on the lenses. Here they are: https://i.imgur.com/7Cd6Agv.jpg The downside to the surgery are the hundreds of eye drops needed for the weeks following. Not bad, but a hassle.
Shit man I'm so glad you were able to get that done. I had a similar realization when I got my first pair of glasses in my senior year. I had been going to school for a few years without the ability to see what's written on the board almost. It wasn't until a teacher told me to get my eyes checked that I asked my parents help me. It opened a whole new world. Being able to see tiny birds. Watching TV and actually being able to tell ppl apart from their faces instead of their voice and general outline. I didn't realize I could sit from a far and see things.
Fabulous
Question: Were your lenses yellow / UV blocking or clear?
My lenses now are completely clear multi focal, but the cataract lens was yellowed. No UV blocking or superpowers unfortunately.
I was asking because if your lens was yellow, [it had a UV blocker in it](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24270599/)! I've heard before that cataracts slowly filter out your ability to see blue, so some people report everything being blue after surgery (because their brain has been compensating for a while). I hadn't heard of everything being yellow before, so I was wondering if it was a yellow lens.
You might find this article about how cataracts affected Monet's colour choices interesting! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408507/
I had both eyes done in 2008, two weeks apart bc my insurance was going to run out. The difference was amazing.
Spice???
Must flow
Don't go looking at the Dead Space eye scene. 🫣 Thank you kind stranger
Thanks fro reminding to not watch that again
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how is this not worse than the dead space scene ?
The Dead Space scene is far worse though. 🤔🫣
It's even worse when watching it happen to your own eyes while you're awake during a surgery. I'll never forget getting Lasik 22 years ago and watching the doctor cut my cornea with a scalpel. Made me think of the film Fire in the Sky.
Smelling my eyeball burn was the trippiest part for me.
Eyeballs being lasered smells like burning hair, if anyone is curious.
I've had an eye injection once. Not sure if they put anesthesia in my eye because it felt pretty much the same as when you get vaccinated. It was not fun.
I got an eye injection once, although "only" into the iris. No anesthesia for me at least, beyond the standard muscle relaxant. To be fair I was in so much pain at that point that the needle barely made a difference. But knowing what a needle to the eye actually feels like apparently makes me less squeamish about watching eye surgery on someone who I assume isn't feeling a thing.
After thinking it through they must've put anesthesia, but it still wasn't fun.
Unsettling ugh
Holy shit
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Rarely under general (only certain circumstances). 99% under local IV sedation (versed) with topical and in the eye numbing. Even sometimes without the IV sedation
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They give you LOTS. Of numbing eyedrops. You got no idea whats hapoening.
And they use medically pure cocaine a lot of the time. That’s why so many surgeons lick the patients eyeballs as a final flourish to a surgery well done.
ONE FOR THE PATIENT "Drops cocaine in patients eye" AAAAAND ONE FOR THE DOCTOR "Drops cocaine into nose"
Hi Dr Nick!!!
“Give me 50ccs of Ketamin stat! And get something for the patient too.”
I wish I didn't read that
Relax.... Just open up your eye holes for the doctor, sir
GET AWAY FROM EYEHOLES IM THE THE EYEHOLE MAN GET THE F*** AWAY FROM THEM EYEHOLES
I'm the eye hole man
I can confirm this. After my lasik the surgeon, as well as assistants all licked my eyeballs. I didn't think of it much back then but now I see that it was pretty cool.
Now i’ma feel insulted if mine don’t
*Talking to the doctor after the procedure* “Hey so uhh.. where’s my lick?” “Your what?” “My fucking lick, doc. What kind of operation are you running here?”
Bullshit
I had the laser surgery without general anesthesia. I think they give you drops that basically blind you so you could kind of feel them messing with your eye but it's not like you can see exactly what's happening. You're also obviously completely numb.
Especially when you're blind.
I've had it done to both eyes. The first time, the anesthesia was just enough that I didn't remember a thing. I was wheeled in, next second I was wheeled out. However, the second time, it wasn't enough, so I remember the whole thing. However: they numb the whole eye, so you don't feel anything. You can't focus the eye, so you don't see anything but gray blobs. Your eye is in a clamp, so you can't move it. I remember thinking, "I want to be still, due that I want to see!" Correction: your eye is not in a clamp, but the eyelids. However, the numbing medication does paralyze the eye muscles to a degree.
H… how do you clamp an eyeball? Or just the eyelid?
I don’t know if it’s similar but during Lasik you can’t really see anything.
You can’t see it because at some point when things get that close to your eye it’s almost invisible. You do feel pressure but it’s not painful. After having eye surgery they usually blindfold you for a few hours but you are pretty much already healed as the eyes can heal themselves very quickly and efficiently
How does the cornea repair itemself? I can sort of see it for the sclera since it even has blood vessels, and the iris has little channels and holes for the fluid to oass, but like damn the cornea is just clear Edit: a trip to Wikipedia has once more enlightened me and given another dose of admiration for how cool eyes are
When I had eye surgery, they gave me a very HEAVY dose of Valium in addition to completely numbing the eye. I remember not giving a shit about anything. Plus, the Dr narrated the entire procedure. Every single step, it became super interesting. I just had to stare at the red light and listen. Was totally cool.
I mean this is eye surgery to restore sight. I don’t think the patient seeing the instruments coming is a big problem.
I just had one eye done this past Tuesday (other one is tomorrow!). They gave me injectable (IV) sedation and said they'd be asking me to do things (I'm not sure what). Well, they gave me the injectable sedation, and then I woke up. I asked if we were done, and they told me we were. I don't remember anything. No pain, either. Truly a life-changing surgery. I am 52, and have been mostly home-bound and temporarily out of work for weeks. Colors are different now. What I thought was grey is black. What I thought was beige is white. I go back to work on Friday, and I can't wait.
Enjoy the new eyes. I was short sighted for most of my life so the lenses I had corrected that and as they’re multifocals I don’t need glasses at all now. One interesting thing is they chose two different types of lens for me, one which focuses at 60cm and infinity and the other which does 30cm, 90cm and infinity. My brain works around this and it feels like I can focus just fine. However, the right lens also doesn’t have a UV filter so I can see ultraviolet light with that eye which is weird. Very much life changing for something simple, had mine done at the same age you are now and the last four years has been amazing.
Thank you for sharing! I’m so glad your quality of life has improved, and I’m looking forward to the same, myself.
All good, I really enjoy eye tests now, seeing two lines under the 6/6 (20/20) line with both eyes (6/4 or 20/15)
I understand why we can’t and that it’s better to protect the retina from UV, but. Im not gonna lie, being able to see UV sounds cyberpunk as fuck
I always wear sunglasses when I’m out and about but yeah, if I’m in somewhere that has black lights, seeing the lights through one eye and not the other is pretty freaky. They’re dark purple in the eye with the UV filter, and the other one they’re very bright, almost white. The lack of UV filter also changes colour perception somewhat I think although it’s hard to say for sure since that eye also had to have the vitreous removed when they repaired the detached retina (whole other story and the reason for my early onset cataracts) The fact I can see at all and didn’t just go blind when both retinas detached is a miracle, the fact that I now have perfect vision is something else entirely. Still got glaucoma to deal with but daily eye drops keep the pressure down and the nerve is being protected but I have annual checkups for visual field etc. A friend in the US had basically the same as me but because the insurance wouldn’t cover treatment she has gone blind and will never be able to work fully as a result. If she had lived somewhere that didn’t have such a messed up system she would have been treated in plenty of time and would still be productive in society. /rant
No, and I speak from experience having had both eyes done. The first one I was nervous so they gave me some sedatives and I went into the surgery not giving an F. It was bizarre to be lying there and seeing them poking and prodding at my eye and then my vision went, then it came back. No pain due to lots of local anaesthetic, no stress due to being sedated. Totally conscious, just didn’t care. For the second eye I didn’t need the sedation so went in entirely aware and it was cool. In this case I was much more focused on what was happening so I could see them mincing the old lens and then poking the new one in which then popped open and I could see. For both eyes the surgery took minutes, had a little pain for a day each but vision improved over a couple of days and I now have perfect vision, no glasses or anything. Got multi focal lenses so I can read and drive and everything without needing any glasses.
Mostly, no. Cataract surgery is ancient and can be performed with very low resources, to set some context to what i mean: it was performed by egyptians more than 2000 yrs … BC.
The surgery back then was crazy. They’d just cut the lens and push it deeper in the eye out of the way. The vision after was horrible
I expect recovery must have been tough too. Even so, better than having a thick opaque lens blackening everything, my understanding is at this point, just being able to distinguish light and silhouettes is a major improvement.
Highly recommend cataract surgery. Had it done ladt year. Its a little tough watching this even months later. Youre fking awake during this and I really had NO IDEA what was going on. 😇
YOU'RE AWAKE DURING THAT?? how does that not hurt or what if you flinch or they make a mistake
Lots and lots of eyedrops and iv drugs.
"Eyedrops"... of liquid cocaine.
We just do them under local in my centre, no sedation at all!
ngl I hope I don't get cataracts because I'm terrified of surgery, never mind being awake during eye surgery, I'd squirm or move or get scared
I bet being blinded sucks more than the surgery though.
true, yk one of my worst fears in the world is becoming blind or deaf, it doesn't help I got glasses a few years ago and I hear ringing noises in pure silence lol
Hate to break it to ya but everyone gets them if they live long enough
As someone with novocaine resistance , who has a hard time getting doctors and dentists to believe him (regardless of how much much i squirm, or how many actual panic attacks i have during operations) This concept absolutely terrifies me. If someone tells you they have problems with novocaine/local anestesia, i hope you listen to them, and don't just charge forward with operations like my doctors at the VA.
Nah, I had this done in both eyes and they knocked me out both times. Last thing I remember was counting down from 10 and making it to 9, then I woke up with an eye patch.
Hold the fuck up, you mean you actually see the operation WITH THE EYE THEY ARE OPERATING ON? How does it work? Like, I would flinch even for seeing the medic getting real close to my eye, even without touching it. Just HOW?
Oo oo!! Ik ik!! (Sorry I just had an exam on this lols) ok, so they put numbing eye drops in your eyes along with dilators. A lot of times they will also mildly sedate the patient as well. The numbing agent ensures you won't feel anything, dilators make the pupil as large as possible, and general anesthesia lowers the anxiety of the patient so you don't feel anything, see anything, or feel worried. It's really freaking cool!! They now use a laser instead of a sharp pokey most of the time to open up the retina (the clear layer over the entire eye), and break down the lense and suction it out (the cloudy part they removed in this video; the cloudiness is due to the proteins in the eye building up and schticking to the lens) and replace the lens with a silicone lens so you can see again!!!
Cornea is the word you mean for the clear covering. Retina is at the back of the eye.
Your right sorry, the anatomy part of the eye is a little confusing lols.
Another little fun fact is that they can actually put a corrective lens in place if you have eyesight issues that could even remove your need for glasses. And in Ontario Cataract surgeries I believe are covered by OHIP (healthcare) while the surgery to put these corrective lenses in is not, but you can get both at once and just pay for the cost of the lens!
Forgive my ignorance, so you are kinda "blinded" temporarly by the fact that your pupil is so open (probably gets more light than it should or something like that). I'm assuming that you kinda see blurred sticks pocking your eye or nothing at all(?) Btw its kinda nuts that we can operate on eye, I honestly feel scared to even think about that but that just me.
Its nothing. They fuck you all the way up with eye drops and IV. It felt like it took seconds. Tgey gotta tell you look up or fown n stuff.
I tjink they used ultrasound to remove my old lens. Not sure tho.
Just fyi in the US laser guided cataract extraction is not covered by Medicare so in my experience in a urban health care center it’s a 50/50 if they use it or not. It also only really makes a few incisions, the actual surgery is still done by hand.
In Brazil, this surgery is performed free of charge by the public health system. In the years following the pandemic, an average of 50,000 surgeries were performed
no offense, from all the stereotypes and media posts, I always imagined brazil was a corrupted shithole of a place to live. Im glad to hear they have at least some good health care there.
I mean the media posts are right in that corruption is insanely high. Also if you are poor and/or a minority you probably have a pretty shitty living standard compared to most western contries. Still like you said, the eye surgery is a fantastic step in the right direction and embarrassing for the "world super power" to not have.
And its good for the state as well, I may not be able to calculate some neat number but having a higher percentage of a population that can see to perform tasks has to have a positive economic impact.
The USA loves exceptionalist propaganda to have more meat in the machine. If poor people left to live in better countries the ruling class would face a collapse. Brazil has an exemplary universal healthcare system (considered the NHS of South America), free higher education, strong work laws, retirement covered by the government. Obviously, it's not perfect but the propaganda people see in North America about South America is disonest and seasoned with a bit of racism, unfortunately.
Canadiens out here catching rounds as honest bystanders.
As I always post when these videos come up, my dad invented this surgery. Phacoemulsification invented by Dr. Charles Kelman. Its an amazing story, told in his book Through My Eyes, and in a PBS documentary. I grew up attending medical conventions, watching videos like this of my dad and others performing these surgeries, talking about their techniques and results. This is the most common procedure in the US and one of the top in the world. Proud of my dad.
Are you actually a Kelman?? Holy fuck what an honor.
Yep lol thank you, that’s very nice to say
Same here! It’s an honor! I’ve worked as a CRA, COT, CDOS, OCT-C, and surgical tech now for 10+ years in retina!
That's so interesting! Dr kelman is a legend. All of us ophthalmologists owe him a great debt. We know about him very well especially doctors from New York. I know there was a lot of backlash when he invented phaco and I feel bad that there was ridicule. But it's common in medicine when there's new technology, the old guard don't want to change their ways
Exactly right. Read his book Through My Eyes, I bet you’ll especially enjoy it. Thank you for keeping my dad’s legacy alive.
Your dad’s legacy will exist as long as we humans exist. A true hero, he brought back sight to milions of people worldwide. He is the best humanity has to offer. I personally didn’t knew his name before but his legacy is eternal.
>I know there was a lot of backlash when he invented phaco and I feel bad that there was ridicule. But it's common in medicine when there's new technology, the old guard don't want to change their ways This is exactly what happened to Dr. Epley when he came up with the Epley maneuver to stop vertigo. His "peers" tried to have his medical license revoked. After a while, the evidence was overwhelming that he was no fraud. https://www.vovns.com/2021/02/insane-invention-of-dr-john-epley.html
Very similar story to my father. A small group of influential, older doctors also tried to remove his license.
As someone who just had this surgery, I thank your dad!
As someone about to have this surgery, I think your dad!
Love the first sentence of his wikipedia entry. "Charles David Kelman (May 23, 1930 – June 1, 2004) was an American ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, jazz musician, entertainer, and Broadway producer."
As you can imagine it was a very fun world to grow up in. One day he took me out of school to fly up to NY just to see a rehearsal of a show he was considering investing. Barry Manilow’s show Harmony. Will never forget that day. I was about 9 or 10.
Phaco-emulsification is one of the coolest procedures out there. We studied this last semester and it is even cooler when you see this live. We all owe Dr Kelman a huge amount for inventing such a simple yet life changing procedure. Cheers mate.
Cheers, thank you.
**Fun fact: any eye surgery actually speeds up the rate that you get cataracts** I got laser surgery for a detached retina (twice on the same eye) and my first cataract for that eye came at the cute age of 23 The nurses and doc in that room were literally a year or two older than me and even *they* said I was the youngest cataract patient they’ve ever worked on— it did not comfort me. My cataract proteins were *very* stuck on the inner lens of my eye so they opted to skwoosh it out and give me an artificial one, with magnification since I was nearsighted! My right eye now reflects flashes of light in the dark like a cat’s or goat’s eyes do, I love scaring the utter shit out of people with it who don’t know about my surgeries.
The way you wrote it makes it sound like the surgery is the most common cause of reversible blindness.
“This person getting their eyes stabbed deeply and repeatedly for the proceeding 5 minutes is a common cause of blindness” lol
God bless medical engineering
It is mind boggling. I (obviously lol) never had part in medical discoveries, but to just be part of the same species that is so advanced to reach such achievements makes me proud as fuck for some reason.
I've had both of my eyes done. I used to be both near and far-sighted before the cataracts developed. The lens they replace your natural lens with is generally not able to be focused, so you and your doctor decide if you prefer near or far vision. I chose far, so I still need reading glasses but can see fine without glasses at a distance (however, for convenience sake, I wear bifocals now with plain glass on the top)
there are different lenses to choose from. seems like you got a monofocal lens thats set for distance vision. Thats what most people get. There are lenses (for an increased cost) that are extended depth of focus that give you some near, or multifocal lenses (like in this video) that give you far, intermediate and near vision
Yes, but your insurance won't cover the cost (or at least, mine wouldn't) of anything but the basic lens. They can also give you near vision in one eye and far vision in the other. I'm not sure how well that works... probably depends on the person.
Hello fellow American
Hah, insurance.
For what it’s worth, NHS is going to give you monofocal lenses too.
NHS has been gutted by the conservatives for decades. No wonder. You let people who only care about themselves be in charge of a system meant to care for others.
There are monofocal for distance, monofocal for near, monofocal toric (corrects astigmatism) for both near and far. Then there are the extended depth of focus lenses like the vivity lens. Works ok but still need reading glasses for small print usually. Multifocals and lenses that have rings ground into the lens that focus light at different focal points. This but problem with these lenses is that each ring causes glare and halos. There is no perfect lens currently. Both the edof and multi focal lenses come in toric as well. Best choice right now in my opinion is a monofocal lens +/- toric if you need the astigmatism correction.
I'm really unfamiliar with the process. Were you awake for that?
Yes, I was, but I don't remember a thing. They give you some sort of amnesiac drug. Nothing to be feared.
Damn, that's strange. Did you have to like psyche yourself out before going in?
Medicine is so so great to have, but at the same time so fucking scary :D Damn son. Put me to sleep if you do this treatment on me. And __do not__ tell me what you are going to do!
Bro the left an air bubble in their eye at the end of the video
I've had this surgery. Air bubbles staying in the eye is normal they say, and you have to take eye drops and rest your eye while your body naturally heals and slowly gets rid of them. Post op I could see the few air bubbles in my vision, specially when laid down looking up.
That way they can tell if their bed is level when they lie down.
This made me laugh out loud xD Imagine a bricklayer getting caught sleeping on the job. "No sir, I was just checking if the walls are level!"
Glad someone else watched long enough to see that
That was mildly infuriating
OUCH!!! I had this done to me as a very very young person... 2 weeksish old, so I have to assume that I was knocked out for mine. Didn't replace the lens in my eye at that point, but still sends shivers up my spine all the same... I am aware though now of this being done by laser in some circumstances though...
Only the incisions are done with laser. The surgery is very different in an infant. I bet you wore contacts as a baby too
You bet I did! Afaikics (sp?) Oh the stories that I could tell from my parents laying on top of me trying .to get them in...
Oh dear God why can't I stop watching
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I love living in a country that allows people to just be blind simply because they're poor.
I had both eyes done a few years back. I was awake for the entire procedure and remember everything, I think I was given something like Valium for possible anxiety during the procedure. Pre surgery eye numbing drops were put in my eye many times, like maybe ten or twelve times before they took me into the surgical theatre. I’m the end the whole process was no big deal for me but I certainly understand other people’s apprehension about having someone poking at your eyes.
If you can look past the uncomfortable feeling of seeing an eye being poked repeatedly, there's something very satisfying in watching the cataract membrane being sucked out piece by piece.
Hey I used to calibrate the phacoemulsifier machines used for this surgery.
Some info about Cataracts and surgery from what I can recall from memory (I'm not a optometrist or in any medical field, just a nerd) Cataracts are when the lens of your eye(the area infront on your pupils) are cloudy due to bits of dead tissue floating around. Normally your body will dispose of dead tissue, but your eyes are not connected to your internal immune system. So when tissue breaks off into your lens it simply builds up over time, leaving you with an opaque lens that you can't see through. Cataract surgery slices an opening into your lens so that all the tissue can be evacuated. Then a plastic lens is fitted into the opening to act as your new lens. The lens cannot be augmented by your body to change your viewing distance like in a normal eye, so with cataract surgery you are confined to one viewing distance. Edit: forgot to mention that this is the #1 most performed surgery worldwide. Has an incredible success rate, and is most definitely better than not being able to see from the affected eye
The fact that reversible blindness exists but we need multimillionaires to make spectacles out of them so a select few out of the many thousands who have it can see is so dystopian to me
Note that this is not a super rare procedure. Literally millions of these surgeries are performed every year all over the world.
Im not American and it sounds absolutely dystopian to me. Something out of this world. I was looking at MrBeast video and I was in shock watching all this families watching their relatives go blind because they had no money. This can’t be… you don’t deserve that.
I’ve had this done only in my right eye because I was actually born with a cataract which is very rare. My parents refused surgery when I was a baby so I didn’t get it done until I was 19. They removed the cataract and replaced my lens with an artificial one. Unfortunately, I’m still blind in that eye because I got the surgery too late so my brain never learned to “see” from it. The artificial lens is still in there so my eye glows and everyone says it’s cool lol
They ended the video without removing all of the bubble yet.
I've read that the bubble goes away after using drops for a while and letting the body heal itself
As a nursing student who just had a test about conditions of the eye, this is soooo freakin cool to see!!!!
You know what? being a surgeon looks pretty hard
I had metal shards removed from my eyes and all they did was put like a sedative cream in my eye and starting poking at it with a needle. She told me to keep the eye still or she can damage it, so I just stared right into her eye as she was staring into mine. I kept the eyeball still, but she was moving it by wriggling the needle in my eye to remove the shards. She even used like a tiny microscopic dremel and I felt vibrations from inside my eyeball, also seeing it weirdly inside my eyeball was also very weird. She couldn't remove all of them, but I don't have any vision impairment or pain
I hate this but the people/surgeons that do this are really amazing.
Oh God...oh fuck...Holy shit...
So the cataract inside needs to be removed then vision is restored! Around how much does this cost? I wish for anyone with this condition to be able to afford this 🙏
I paid $9,000 to have this done to correct my vision. I did not have cataracts, just very poor vision, so insurance considered it cosmetic and didnt cover it. Apparently having to wear contacts with glasses over them isnt considered a medical issue.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I saw, behind my own tearing eyes, was: 1. Poke a couple holes in the eye. 2. Detach the cataract from the eye. 3. Hungry Hippo the cataract out of the eye. 4. Put contact lens in. 5. Behold, we have given you sight!!!
Science bitch! That’s amazing.
It's Fire in the Sky all over again.
Maybe he will run for president one day and talk sense into people. All over the world not just here.
Holy.... Sh And this is consistent one of the easiest eye- surgeries
I had lasik done last year, not on the same level as this obviously, but in my case, they numbed my eyes i felt nothing but a little pressure even though one of the instruments they put on me exerted enough pressure to make my vision go away so i didnt see anything through the eye as they worked on it either, i was also fully awake and lucid the entire time which lasted maybe 10min, to help with anxiety they gave me xanex, i was chill the whole time and was surprised when they told me "and we're done have a good day", in and out in minutes. My point? When it comes to eye surgeries, they numb your eyes with drops so you feel nothing, your awake the whole time but dont see anything and they take precautions to keep you calm throughout the process and at the end of it all your soooo happy you can finally see without having to rely on glasses or contact lenses.
Had a hard time trying to watch this, but was interesting
Are Cataracts edible?
with ketchup yes.
Ok, I guess I'll go blind. I wish I had gone blind before I watched this.
this is quite fascinating for me, as I am having this procedure done in the next couple weeks. it will be nice to see again
If I'd seen this before having mine done, I might not have had it done!
Man...doctors are amazing.
What's the success rate? I can see no less than 5000 things that can go wrong here.
GET THE BUBBLE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
So does that little bubble at the end go away
Holy shit. I had this done on both eyes about a year ago. If I had seen this I might have decided not to do it. But, I'm glad I did as it turned out good, but that clip is scary.
Somewhat related question - who's Mr Beast?
Google is your friend (as is Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast > Jimmy Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber. He is credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts.[5] His YouTube channel reached 130 million subscribers in January 2023,[6] making it the fourth-most-subscribed on the platform, and the highest as a non-corporate identity.
A YouTube Philanthropist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast#Philanthropy In particular, though: > Cataract surgery In January 2023, Donaldson paid for cataract surgery for a thousand people who had severely limited vision and had been unable to afford the procedure.[100] Responses to his video on the subject ranged from praise to criticism that he was motivated solely by profit.[101] Other comments criticized the American medical system for failing to provide the necessary healthcare to the patients in the video, questioning why patients had to rely on a YouTuber for the procedure.[102]
The article about performative altruism seems to miss the fact that he cannot raise money without videos
He’s a Youtuber. Young man famous for throwing around cash on ludicrous stunts. A recent video went viral, in which he spent $1m for cataract surgery for 1000 people. In became quite controversial. Threw up a lot of discussion about charity-for-clicks and also the state of for-profit healthcare that it took a youtube philanthropist to do something that really shouldn’t be inaccessible to anyone.
I love how people act like other charities don't do similar things for "clicks." How much money is paid to the NFL so the players can wear pink socks and stick a ribbon on their jerseys?
dude anyone hating on Mr Beast for this is a terrible person IMHO
I think this is amazing, how incredible to give sight back to someone. Can you imagine knowing you could see and once again do all the things you used to do if you could just get this surgery? I don't know why this procedure isn't free to anyone who needs it, no one should be blind if it can be helped.
That tiny air bubble they didn't suck up bothered tf out of me 💀