Posted on 12/13/2018 6:45:56 PM PST by george76
Agreed!
I had LASIK done 20 years ago and besides some dry eyes at the beginning, it was one of the best things I've done for myself.
My only regret was that I didn't wait about 10 years for the technology to get better.
My eyes regressed a bit, so I have to wear glasses, but they are paper thin.
Much better than my old Coke bottles.
It's my stupid Logitech mouse on its last button. SAD!
Maybe she was very very nearsighted.
I used to be so nearsighted that I could never be corrected to 20/50. Always had to get a special dispensation to drive. Every doctor I had told me DO NOT let anyone talk you into LASIK. You are not a candidate. I never did.
I finally got to the point where I got cataracts and couldn’t drive legally at all before I allowed surgery. I got one eye done, then later the other.
I always wonder why, if your lenses can be replaced so easily and you can then have vision so much improved that it is truly miracle like, why all cripplingly nearsighted folks shouldn’t be offered the opportunity to have this lens replacement procedure done as small children . Life changing. Future enhancing.
“but they did not take into account the circumference of the pupil ...’
The EXACT same thing happened to a good friend of mine. He was able to get it corrected in Canada. Turns out that the FDA didn’t approve the equipment required to fix his problem hence the need to go to Vancouver.
That year in between his first surgery and the corrective surgery was complete hell for him.
One of my mothers’ best friends had that surgery done when it was pretty new. The operation was botched, and everyone knew that it was botched. The lady died of a stroke a very short time ( I think less than a year) later.
I am grateful for glasses. I got them when I was six, and my vision has always been lousy 20/400 (I can see at 20 feet what average people see at 400 feet)
I have had dreams throughout my life about having no glasses...but glasses are such a part of me I can’t imagine not having them.
I cannot throw them away. My wife laughs at me because I say if there is ever a nuclear war...I gotta have glasses!
I wore the standard BCD (Birth Control Device) government issue black plastic frame glasses up until I was 16. I always had tape on one or both temple pieces. I was hard on them. When I was 13, I was chasing a friend, running full speed with my glasses jumping up and down on my face, they fell off, my foot went right between the temple pieces and ground one of the lens opaque right on the sidewalk and made the lens look like it had been etched like frosted glass.
My parents refused to buy me another pair. For weeks, I had to put vegetable oil on the lens to see anything at all though it, but they did get me another pair.
When I was 16, my parents bought me a pair of wire frames for my birthday...with the photosensitive lens! It was great.
It was great until I broke one and got it replaced, and they didn’t put the same amount of photosensitive stuff in it, so that when I went out into the sun, one lens would turn really dark, the other one not, so it looked really odd.
When I joined the Navy, the day I went to the AFEES station with my buddy (we joined together) they weren’t going to let me join because of my stupid glasses. They routed me off to the side while my buddy kept going with everyone else, I was stricken. But then they got me in front of some Naval commander (I think) who was an older doctor, and he talked with me for a few minutes then said he didn’t think the glasses were a problem, and they put me back in with my group.
In boot camp, my different shaded lens made me stand out, I remembered getting disciplined for something, and the guy chewing me out in front of everyone yelled “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU? SOME KIND OF SPOT DOG OR SOMETHING?
I know...pretty tame stuff, but...nobody likes to stand out!
I was told by my eye doctor that laser surgery only corrects the problem of not being able to see distances and that eventually people who have the surgery will need glasses for reading when they reach a certain age. Maybe that’s what happened in your case.
This is the first time I have heard of anyone having adverse reaction to LASIK. I had it done. I had fantastic results, thank God.
My SIL had her LASIK error (I think it was LASIK - it was a relatively new form of it a couple of years ago) corrected in Vancouver as well. She had both eyes done with the LASIK at the same time and they made the same mistake with both eyes. I’m surprised they even do both eyes at the same time.
Thank you.
However I did read the article at the link and while is says that her struggle *echoes* that of the other guy, it didn’t says it was the same.
Nevertheless, there is a lot that indicates that she had issues. I haven’t known any people without issues to commit suicide.
And especially as a mother, I cannot fathom doing that to my children.
What she said was this “Update: yesterday was a struggle for me. I really wanted to come back but I need more time to recover.”
No mention of being in pain, which I would expect if it was that severe. Just complaining that it’s taking longer to come back than expected because she needed more time to recover.
There is.
It's called visual therapy. It's physical therapy for the eyes.
My daughter had excellent vision as far as the tests showed, but her eyes worked very poorly together.
She had trouble focusing from near to far quickly and she had trouble tracking objects, among other issues.
She went for this 6 week therapy, did the exercises every day and it worked wonders for her.
You just have to find a doctor in your area who does it.
What hit me was when he said every morning he'd get up, look in the mirror, and tell himself "you ruined your life". I canceled my appointment and have been on contact lenses and glasses ever since. I just could not get past what that man said to the mirror and imagining the excruciating pain he endured. And, now I wonder if it was the same man who just committed suicide recently.
I’m glad your mother’s vision was eventually corrected. I’m sure it was a very difficult situation, but as you pointed out, she could expected it to improve fairly quickly, in the grand scheme of things.
I think it is common to give Valium to patients B4 lasik.
Your experience with LASIK confirms the major flaw of the procedure. The human eye undergoes changes which affect the quality of vision that the procedure was meant to correct. Many times those changes cannot be corrected with repeat LASIK procedures. Then, it is back to glasses and many times it’s bifocals as eyes age.
I agree.A skilled Ophthalmologist can help people hugely in certain cases,as I pointed out in another post in this tread.As risky as eye surgery can be there are disorders serious enough to make that risk worthwhile.
The one,and only,thing I think is unwise in relation to the work of an Ophthalmologist is to "invade" a person's eyes simply so that he/she can toss the glasses/contacts away.
Correct. The article can imply; only the reader can infer.
:)
I'm nearsighted with 20/300 vision and have been wearing glasses since I was 8 and contacts since I was 20. (I'm within three months of hitting 60.) Lasik sounded good over the years, but the expense and the risk made me conclude that contacts during the day and glasses (eventually) at night were a winning combo that should continue. It's never bothered to me to stick my fingers in my eyes to put in contacts as some people describe it. I guess my vanity outweighs those considerations or simply years of watching the Stooges makes me immune to such worries.
In any event, it became an especially winning combo three years ago when my eye doctor suggested changing one of my contacts from -5.00 to -3.00 to create monovision where one eye is the reading eye and the other is the distance eye. Man, that still tickles me not to have to use granny glasses to read. Not that I had any issue using the grannies and still use them for really detailed work, but it's great to pick up something and just be able to read it. As well, being nearsighted with the glasses gives me a detail view when I take them off and put myself close to things.
Maybe I'm really fortunate in my combo, but I don't have any incentive to mess with this at all. I'm not passing judgment on anyone, just my experience.
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