I'm having cataract surgery next month and i'm only 16...just asking but...?

Ok i had 4 surgeries last year which was Retinal Detachment and Glaucoma. I know needed those surgeries and i got cataract in my right eye. So i'm having cataract and the oil removed from my eye surgery. I hardly can see from my right eye but what would happen if i don't have cataract surgery? just curious.

The cataract would be likely to deepen and eventually the pupil of the eye would turn white: "Complete cataract"
It can in the extreme provoke further glaucoma.

It needs doing to find out how much vision the right eye can have. It's difficult to predict, I'm afraid.
The eye might be good just for peripheral vision (still useful!)
or have much better vision than that.
Balancing the two eyes if the right eye does have good sight is also likely to need some care. The right eye won't shift from distance to near as the left one will.

Best wishes,
(Optometrist, retired)

try asking ur doctor

You would slowly go blind and it would be irreversable.

My mother had cataracts... she was told if she did NOT get them removed, she would go blind--AND, people who have had previous eye problems, the blindness from cataracts comes quicker for those people. would be logical assumption too since your eyes are weaker from all the previous surgeries.... I have had 4 surgeries on MY eyes as well and if I follow in my mother's footsteps, I should get cataracts by the time I'm in my late 60's... (if I live that long)...

you won't be able to see as clearly as you would want to-you are so young to have had a R.D. and glaucoma but it does happen. did these surgeries happen only in the right eye? sometimes if you wait too long when you first notice symptoms of a retinal detachment they may fix the RD but your vision will be poor. having the cataract extracted may make vision brighter but you may still see poorly because of prior damage from RD i work for an ophthalmologist see this every day best wishes dear