Symptoms and Complications
Cataracts cause a gradual, painless loss of vision. In older people who wear glasses for reading, close-up vision may improve at first. This is because they are going from farsightedness to nearsightedness. Double vision may also appear temporarily early on in the course of the disease.
Other symptoms include:
- frequent changes in your glasses or contact lenses
- cloudy or blurred vision
- dull, faded color
- poor night vision
- odd effects around lights, such as glare or halos
Cataracts can't jump from one eye to the other, but people who get one often end up developing it in the other eye.