At least several posters have had cataract surgery and are happy with results. In a few weeks I will need to select replacement lens for one or two eyes. Standard lens focuses at infinity and eyeglasses will be needed for closer focus. Optional lens include various means of focusing at nearer distances, at additional cost to user (not generally covered by insurance) and possibly ruled out for medical reasons.

Question: I would presume that most shooters using scopes do quite well with standard, infinity focus lens. True? Anyone have experience with lens allowing focus at multiple distances? Like most here, I have been wearing glasses for decades. 

Mod: Have posted this here because it could be considered a companion to the "Scope Choice" thread.

Thanks,
Grisen

My choice, and results, are the same as Dave's. I'd been using 'cheaters' to read in certain conditions anyhow, so no difference in what I'd been doing. 
Yer gonna be happy when you finish. Mine took two operations a week apart, and the time in between was strange. One eye was good with glasses, the other didn't need them anymore. Try driving in the dark that way and you'll see why I say "strange".

Schuetzendave wrote on Nov 24^th, 2015 at 2:00pm:


This has been my experience.  I bought a cheap pair of online glasses with the right lens focused at arms length for pistol shooting. I wear infinity focused glasses for shooting only for the eye protection.  Of course I need bifocals to type this out.  The worst part of the whole cataract surgery experience was getting over feeling around on the night stand for my glasses when I woke up in the morning.  That seemed to take months!

JS

I couldn't shoot with both eyes open after cataracts    Well, I could, but nothing like before.  Seems to be some kind of parallax issue that disperses the shots sideways across the target 

Probably will be    From a rest I shot groups 2" high and 8" wide both eyes open after cataract surgery.  Could still shoot with one eye from rest,  but offhand suffered.  So........ went to scope for 100 shot. 

Open sights were a total disaster.  My 54 flinter went from 3" at 100 yds to about 12" !   

Thanks for all the information about your individual cataract surgeries! My first one is scheduled for mid January 2016. I am going with std lens. I will be waiting for at least some weeks before scheduling other eye.

I have been surprised at the number of people that have had this surgery! And pleased to hear that nearly everyone considers it a big success.

Grisen

You could well be correct about waiting more than 2 weeks between surgeries. My reasons are; 
1) my two eyes have always behaved very differently, one has a bunch of issues that little, if anything can be done for and is eye that is going 1st, partly because it is my former master eye that is now not very useful at all. 
2) for past 3-4 years I have been getting conflicting information about what is wrong with my eyes, especially the one that is going 1st -- right now only thing I know for sure is that cataract operation will be done. 
3) other eye is still useful, although degraded -- hopefully, I will be eager to schedule 2nd eye after only a couple of weeks experience with 1st eye.

Some days I get to thinking that someone mixed up body parts when they put me together. Some RH parts from someone, some LH parts from someone else. There must be two other "miss assembled" folks out there somewhere.

Grisen

Mine were a year apart due to the way the cataracts came on.  Interesting year with one eye 20/30 and the other 20/400