I had my eyes done not to wear glasses any more. The entire surgery has been taped.
This is how it is done on one eye (only half of the movie but you get to see all of how it happens).
I removed the ability to add comments because the same questions keep coming up. People do not read the thread and just post their same old questions all over. I have other things to attend to but answering the same 5 questions eternally.
So if you have questions related to the surgery and how it happens (although it should be obvious on the vid already) then ask you surgeon or Google them.
Here are the top asked (serious) questions and the answers.
- Risks: It is risky, things can go wrong and when they do it is *VERY* bad because fixing them damaged eyes always results in worse sight and life than before you touched them to start with. Risks increase with the surgeon’s poor skills. Always ask around about the reputation of your surgeon and beware of cheap ones. Good surgeons have very low risk rates and the ugly ones are awful. The risk stats you will read in the net are like 5% it goes wrong, that is an average across all surgeons. Don’t think any surgeon has a 5% failure. It is usually 99,9% or 50%.
- Price: depends on the surgeon, as stated above beware of the cheapo’s. I paid 2700 euro’s. Recent reports of friends that went to the same surgeon reported 3000 euro’s. That is for both eyes. If you have a guy offering 500$ for an eye (or both), run away!
- Dry eyes: You get drops to keep putting in them, before, right after, and for a few months. After a year or so things get back to normal. I went to the Sahara desert two months after and forgot my sun glasses before leaving, NO PROBLEM!
- Flap (the slice) healing: According to some sites it never heals. Knowing a bit of science it is logical. What does heal quickly is the ultra thin layer covering the cornea. But actual facts: IT just sucks on it when placed back, it is not stitched nor glued. So the first 24 hours NOTHING SHOULD TOUCH YOUR EYES. You get goggles to sleep the first night to avoid overnight accidents. The next day the surgeon wants to check you out (if he doesn’t then change surgeon). The first weeks don’t touch your eyes! the flap takes up to two years to get its most strength and never is as strong as an untouched eye forever. So if you are a boxer or into other activities where your head gets banged DO NOT DO Lasik. Instead go for PRK (search Google for PRK). Dito if you want to be an airplane pilot (or if you are already). I heard LASIK eyes are forbidden in the fly world. After 6 months up to a year the flap is strong enough so as to it would need trauma big enough to even severely damage normal eyes too.
- Staring during the operation: No issue, there is nothing else to look at so no distraction and looking at the red dot is peanuts. Stop worrying about that. I’ve seen vids of blondes having the same surgery, do you estimate yourself inferior to blondes?
- Closing eyelids: Impossible, the clamps hold them steady. These clamps do not hurt (see below for pain).
- Pain: Nothing. There are painkilling drops in the eyes before the operation. The only thing “annoying” are the white swabs dipping the moist around the eye. It stains a bit. After the operation you are *VERY* sensitive to light (like daylight) for a few hours. So someone else will have to drive you home and you will be keeping the eyes closed.
- Dilated pupils. Yes you get drops to dilate them fully so the surgeon can see the area that needs to be done in its full extend. Without that, the risk to LASIK a to small area means that during nights your vision will suck because at night your pupils dilate too and the non corrected area let light enter your eyes with the vision troubles you had before. That is when people have blurred night vision, double vision, etc…
- Night vision with sparkles around light sources. This one was never asked but I mention it just in case you would creep out of it after you decide to do this. It is normal and will go away over time like the healing of the flap. It goes gradually and takes months. If you worry, ask your surgeon all about it, he can also double check your eyes after the surgery.
That’s all folks. Thanks for the many comments but now it is time to close this chapter.
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