This surgery is often successful in restoring reading vision. Your doctor will discuss this option with you if he feels you could benefit from this procedure. Except for airplane pilots, military personnel, surgeons, etc., most patients who lose reading vision in one eye usually continue their normal lifestyle and job without change. The major problem is adjusting to the initial lack of depth perception required for near vision. Eventually, patients learn to compensate for this and obtain new clues from the environment to judge close distances.
Patients are usually able to thus gain back much of their lost depth perception.
Special magnifying lenses may also be prescribed to help with reading vision. Patients who have no signs of abnormal blood vessels in either eye have a minimal chance of losing central vision. This risk is increased, however, if abnormal blood vessels have already affected one eye. The yearly risk for the second eye becoming involved then increases to approximately 1 in 50. There is nothing that a person with histoplasmosis can do to prevent abnormal vessels from developing.