Best Ophthalmologist in Lafayette for Cataract Surgery

My family and I have used Dr. Kirk LeBlanc for over 30 years. He is a fantastic opthalmologist. He is located in the Pinhook medical building near LGMC.

I had both eyes done in the last 4 months by Dr. Swann. I highly recommend him. You will be amazed how much better your sight will be after the procedures.

"You will be amazed how much better your sight will be after the procedures."
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How bad was your vision before?

The OT is so old

Just a bit of advice from someone who has had the surgeries and potential complications:

Sometimes after cataract surgery, a thin layer of virtrious tissue will form behind the cornea. If that happens (did to me) your vision will worsen (did to me). In order to counteract this, the surgeon will schedule you for a YAG Laser procedure. This is not covered as part of your cataract surgery, so is at an additional (expensive) cost. The laser cuts a crosshatch into that membrane and it folds back, opening up so that light can pass clearly to the Retina. They will tell you what the potential complications are (and you must sign an agreement accepting those risks). Retinal detachment is one such complication. Statistically small, such risks are real, and I fell into that small, statistical category that required a retinal peel, where one layer of the retina is removed in a surgical procedure under anesthesia.

Another fun complication, not statistically insignificant, is that the YAG Laser procedure often times creates little clumps that float around inside your eyes and across your vision. Many of these disappear after a 2-6 month period of time. Sometimes, they never go away. Then you need to have a Vitrectomy surgery for each eye, and the surgeon goes into the eye through a small incision and basically sucks out the insides of your eyes like a vacuum cleaner. The surgeon has to put a gas bubble into your eye to keep the eye pressure correct, and over the next one to two weeks, that bubble gets smaller and smaller as fluid in the eye is rebuilt naturally by the body and the gas bubble is dissipated.

I had to have that done with each eye.

All of that because my opthalmologist said, "the reason light looks less bright than the other eye is that you have a cataract." That was three years ago.

Today, I'm on my 10th day after my second Vitrectomy, and I'm taking three different eye drops every two hours from 8:00 am until 10:00pm every day until my follow-up on the 27th (next Thursday).

But my vision is now, finally, amazingly clear. It just took seven procedures and three years to get here.

My advice: go in with eyes wide open. If you are fortunate, you'll only need the cataract surgeries.

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Just a bit of advice from someone who has had the surgeries and potential complications:

Sometimes after cataract surgery, a thin layer of virtrious tissue will form behind the cornea. If that happens (did to me) your vision will worsen (did to me). In order to counteract this, the surgeon will schedule you for a YAG Laser procedure. This is not covered as part of your cataract surgery, so is at an additional (expensive) cost. The laser cuts a crosshatch into that membrane and it folds back, opening up so that light can pass clearly to the Retina. They will tell you what the potential complications are (and you must sign an agreement accepting those risks). Retinal detachment is one such complication. Statistically small, such risks are real, and I fell into that small, statistical category that required a retinal peel, where one layer of the retina is removed in a surgical procedure under anesthesia.

Another fun complication, not statistically insignificant, is that the YAG Laser procedure often times creates little clumps that float around inside your eyes and across your vision. Many of these disappear after a 2-6 month period of time. Sometimes, they never go away. Then you need to have a Vitrectomy surgery for each eye, and the surgeon goes into the eye through a small incision and basically sucks out the insides of your eyes like a vacuum cleaner. The surgeon has to put a gas bubble into your eye to keep the eye pressure correct, and over the next one to two weeks, that bubble gets smaller and smaller as fluid in the eye is rebuilt naturally by the body and the gas bubble is dissipated.

I had to have that done with each eye.

All of that because my opthalmologist said, "the reason light looks less bright than the other eye is that you have a cataract." That was three years ago.

Today, I'm on my 10th day after my second Vitrectomy, and I'm taking three different eye drops every two hours from 8:00 am until 10:00pm every day until my follow-up on the 27th (next Thursday).

But my vision is now, finally, amazingly clear. It just took seven procedures and three years to get here.

My advice: go in with eyes wide open. If you are fortunate, you'll only need the cataract surgeries.

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yeah nobody in this thread is gonna get anything done after reading this LMAO