![]() ![]() This is why I'm not answering anyone's questions about Lasik vs PRK/lasek vs iCLs, etc. You need to visit with an eye surgeon and have a lot of very detailed measurements taken before anyone can advise you about which type of surgical options would be available for your eyes. For all of the questions about which type of refractive surgery to get this information may help: in Ophthalmology residencies they don't let you do any refractive surgery until you're already a good eye surgeon and the first thing they teach you before you even start learning these specific surgeries is workup, workup, workup. *Edit - many replies to this comment have been asking for specific advice on various conditions and prescriptions which I am not comfortable replying to as I am not your doctor and would not be giving very good advice in this limited setting. If I was farther in my training maybe I'd have some deeper advice to offer you. Except for the dry eye which a lot of people have after surgery but most people don't seem to mind much and ultimately it ends up getting better for almost all of them.Īnyway, I'm sorry you had a bad outcome and I hope you ultimately find some relief. Anyway, the Wavefront-LASIK laser is actually FDA approved for people with up to -11 diopters of myopia and the excimer laser down to -14, but it seems like the horror stories are always at those more extreme values. Hearing these stories makes me wonder if an implanted contact lens is really a better option in high myopes, but iCLs are still pretty new. But PRK/LASEK doesn't go as "deep" into the cornea as LASIK so they all feel like it's lower risk. That's the older school one where there is no 'flap' and after the surgery your eyes hurt for a good 5 days which is LASIK's main selling point - being pain free with like an afternoon of recovery. ![]() For what it's worth most of the eye surgeons where I train have had PRK or LASEK done, not LASIK. The results of LASIK are more predictable with patient who have low to medium amounts of myopia down to around presciptions of -6. It seems like every time I hear LASIK horror stories like this it is from a patient with high myopia (really negative prescription). I'm a doctor currently in my post-medical school training for Ophthalmology. It's nice to know there are internet strangers out there who care. I'm only talking about my own personal experience as someone who actually ended up with all the shitty results the doctors themselves warn you about.ĮDIT 4: I just wanted to thank everyone for the suggestions and comments. Tons of people get it done with really great results. I waited a long, long time to admit to myself that the problems weren't going to resolve on their own.ĮDIT 3: I'm not anti-LASIK. :)ĮDIT 2: I had the procedure in July 2012. Not being able to undo it is the most heartbreaking thing in my life.ĮDIT: Despite my ridiculous username, I'm a lady. It's deeply embarrassing to me that I willingly did this to myself. In fact, very few people know I've had it done. ![]() I'm not one of those preachy people who tries to change people's minds about LASIK. I know someone who had it done by the same doctor as I and she's got perfect vision now. I'm really happy LASIK works for some people. I'm never going to have normal vision for the rest of my life. It wouldn't be so bad if glasses could correct my vision, but they can't. I have to put eye drops in my eyes several times a day my eyes always feel like crap. Starbursts, ghosting, shit night vision, chronic dry eye. I have all the fun side effects they warn you about. Now I'm a -1.5 and even with glasses my eyesight is rubbish. I had -9 eyeglass prescription, which is pretty bad (very nearsighted) but I could see fine with glasses. So many people have it done and come out fine, but if it goes wrong, it's life changing in an extremely bad way. Every day I wish (several times) that I could travel back in time and not do it. Getting LASIK is the single most fucked up thing I have done to myself in my entire life. ![]()
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