Posted on 12/13/2018 6:45:56 PM PST by george76
Had RK(LASIK predecessor) in 1993.
Was great for 9 years then started having trouble with near vision.
Hard to get a good eyeglass prescription now.
Regret ever having it done.
I had a facial/jaw injury that led to trigeminal nueralgia. For the better part of a year it took every ounce of will power that could be found to not self terminate almost everyday despite massive quantities of pain medication and alcohol to dull the pain a little
The day the cause was found and adressed was one of the greatest of my life and despite disagreeing with her leaving her children behind there are some things some people just cant live with
On a positive note it’s made me almost entirely oblivious to pain
That is a sad story. I got LASIK maybe some 15+ years ago and had extreme dry eyes even though they do a tear test as part of the pre-op. I went through a 2-3 month period of having to use eye drops at least every 15 minutes - absolutely miserable. AND now I’ve been wearing bifocals for a while. Meh. I’m sure at the time I was probably having thoughts about how I would cope if my eyes felt that bad forever.
Possibility there.
Dude are you serious? How are you now?
I think the article infers that she was under extreme pain and depression from the eye surgery.
I don’t know. I have had glasses since I was in third grade.
There have been times, something (a bug, or a drop of something falling) has splashed or bounced off my glasses and I am glad they were there. Ride a motorcycle so maybe that is why, but I like them.
Not getting Lasik. Not getting contacts. Nope. Quite happy wearing glasses.
:D
Not sure I would wear them if I didn’t need them, but I see absolutely nothing to avoid about glasses.
They can be good protection.
My mom had the same problems with one of her eyes, it was very bad and fo months had issues and had to have an expensive prescription for the dry eye, while the eye doc is saying they didnt do anything wrong and it will clear up. It didnt, she had to wait months for it to heal dealing with double vision and dry eye and a secondary infection from all this to clear up, to get it redone, and luckily the doc realzed what happened and didnt chrge her the second time. Should not have since the first time screwed her up in the first place and she had to fork out a lot for the prescription meds for half a year.
So during this she got very depressed and the blurred and double vision issue stopped her driving at night, amd got headaches from it, and was stressed about the infections ad dry eye, and stressed about going through the procedure again.
I can see where she could get depressed, but when you know there will eventually be an end in sight, that there is still realistic things that can be done to correct it, its not something to get suicidal over. The timespan of this womans operation to now, she didnt have enough time for things to heal so she could have another lasik to correct the initial problem.
Its a problem that can drive you nuts because you cant immediatly go back and get it fixed. Plus they have towait if you get complictions, it needs time to heal, eye pressure issues, dry eye,..so you kind of go nuts especially if its your primary eye.
I dont think itd drive me to suicide because i know it would eventualy get corrected and i might just pop an eye patch on for awhile each day if it got very annoying. ,or just sleep more.
I broke too many pairs as a kid.
I worked in academic medicine for decades...specifically for one of the world's most famous hospitals.Even when done by the most skilled and experienced Ophthalmologists eye surgery is *always* a risky proposition.Of course there are eye disorders serious enough to justify that risk.But when done in an effort simply to shed eyeglasses (even thick ones) is quite unwise,IMO.
You're lucky that your procedure turned out well.Some aren't nearly as luck as you.
Just sayin'....
I had a close friend develop severe visual blurring
from a LASIK procedure, and went suicidal.
After failing treatment with medicines,
he underwent ECT and eventually got his act back together.
The fear of going blind can be VERY real
I always thought LASIK was a rock solid relatively risk free procedure. Guess that isn’t the case.
USC (Columbia) Ophthalmology did mine. I got the chief of staff even.
My wife said she’d sit outside and read a book. His eyes lit up and asked if she wanted to watch. I think she declined. I’d taken the mellowing Valium.
About 3 hours or so, my eyes stabilized. The sky was never so blue to me. I had never seen such detail since I was very little and my eyes went south.
I followed the regimen of drops and using the shield. The doctor was very pleased.
I read the article and it did by the comparison but did not outright state anything except that she was bemoaning how long the recovery was taking.
There was a dearth of information about the whole thing.
My b-i-l had it done and he had a lot of trouble with it. Lots of pain and some glare which is not completely gone. He told me to never bother with it.
I’ve heard enough reports of problems that I just do not think it’s worth the risk.
While I *HATE* wearing glasses now, I value my eyes too much to risk the surgery.
Ive been almost legally blind since i was 8 and got LASIK done at age 35 after i crashed on my jetski and lost my glasses. I had to limp back to the dock at a crawl with boats zooming all around me. Scary as hell and convinced me to get it done. I got it done and came out of it with 20/20. That was 10 years ago. Best money I’ve ever spent. Just wish I had got it done earlier.
I had Lasik in 2001. Then I endured 6 months of dry eyes and starry night vision which gradually disappeared. Not pleasant but not anywhere close to driving me to suicide.
During the last 17 years of perfect vision, I have felt that it was a great decision. Was there pain and frustration at first? Yes, but worth it all.
Something else had to be going on in her life.
In retrospect I had a few good years from it, free of glasses which I’d needed since 5th grade. With hindsight (haha) I doubt I would do it again.
And then there’s the expense - back then it was so expensive that lots of people would finance it. Yikes.
So sad and ironically on the feast day of St. Lucy.
Prayers for Jessica and her family.
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An airline pilot had the eye surgery.......but they did not take into account the circumference of the pupil ...
a necessary element to direct the laser properly.
He ended up with very flawed vision....and had to quit his beloved job.
Wow — I was afraid of that surgery anyway.
Now I feel justified in my fear.
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