Originally posted by Pentaxor what did you mean by drove them craxy and migraines? what caused it?
Having both eyes with wildly different acquity levels all of a sudden is not normal for your brain. It causes massive headaches, migranes and severe eye strain. It takes a long time to adapt to that, and many people never get used to it.
Quote: I would ask the surgeon about that once the results come out.
ALWAYS remember that Lasik centers and ophtalmologists who work in them are performing COSMETIC surgery and are in it for the $$$. You are not a patient, you are a potential customer. Always keep that in mind and please keep a skeptical attutude. Be critical, don't be afraid to get a second and third opinion from other doctors.
Quote: I got the option to have my eye re-touched for free if something doesn't go smoothly.
"Don't go smoothly"... Do you have any idea what that REALLY means? People think the worst that can happen is that they won't have 20/20 vision...
Do you realize that if you see the eyechart like this after the operation:
Your operation is considered a success because you can read the 20/20 line regardless of ghosting, pain or anything else that doesn't prevent you from reading the 20/20 line. You are not counted in the "complications" statistics and as far as they are concerned, things went smoothly...
When I had my Lasik done, I hit a doctor who was supposedly the best in his field... he on the other hand was more interested in my $$$ than my welfare. He zapped my eyes, botched the job and then when he realized the job was botched he dumped me and wanted nothing to do with me. He claimed that because I could read the 20/20 line my operation was a success.
I could read the 20/20 line, so what was my problem?
- The flap was cut too far, corneal micronerves were cut too much and it affected my tear production (eyes did not know they were dry, so no tear production). To this day I walk around with a bottle of tears for dry eyes.
- Excruciating pain from dry eyes on a daily basis for almost a whole year until I could get the problems fixed by another doctor.
- The doctor did not irrigate the flap adequately during the operation and left debris under the flap. That lit up like a christmas tree and blinded me any time I walked in a place with UV lights. It also caused abherations. This was fixed by relifting the flap and cleaning the debris (VERY unpleasant!) by another doctor.
- Post op and until another doctor fixed me, I had halos and ghosting in both my eyes. One of them was so bad it was practically double vision from one eye.
- To this day I still have mild halos around lights at night and a loss of contrast (affects me mostly at dusk).
There were many other problems, but I don't remember many of them and prefer keeping such a unpleasant experience behind me.
This is ghosting similar to what I saw out of one of my eyes, the other was much worse.
I also had halos around bright lights at night post op...
(simulations done at:
VisionSimulations.com - Home)
The halos mild now thanks to the second doctor who fixed the problem. The ghosting was also helped by the second doctor, but only time fixed it. It took nearly 2 years for me not to see ghosting anymore (and I am lucky as in many cases halos and ghosting are unfixable).
My biggest mistake was that I did not do my hopework properly... I was in such a desperate hurry to get my eyes fixed NOW that I just rushed into it blindly ignoring all the possible complications.
In the long run I am still happy I had the Lasik done, but I wish I had researched it more to know what the REAL possible complications were and chosen a better doctor.
Pat