And she wouldn't give it to me!
And she wouldn't give it to me!
They say they're gonna fix my eyes
By the time they're done with lies
Alleviate my suffering and my pain
I knew where to get my sight again:
Posted on 05/23/2025 5:40:31 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The suicide of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania police officer over the aftereffects of the popular eye surgery LASIK was not an isolated incident, with others saying the procedure left them with agonizing and life-changing symptoms, patients and doctors told The Post.
LASIK providers say the procedure is 95% to 99% safe, but one LASIK survivor said she had suicidal ideations for two years after her “disastrous” surgery in 2000.
She also claimed to know of at least 40 people who took their own lives because they couldn’t stand constant pain and vision problems, which developed after the procedure.
“The LASIK lobby and the surgeons will tell you only 1 percent of patients have issues afterward. That’s not true. There are multiple studies that indicate otherwise.
“The percentage of those with poor outcomes are in the double digits, not 1 percent. And they know it,” she claimed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
When I was activated for OIF I had a chance to get LASIK but turned it down. A few years later while stationed in New Jersey I had an additional duty of driving soldiers to Walter Reed for Lasik and they marveled after their surgery, they thought it was the best thing ever. I turned it down because my full-time job I worked at the post offictre and I thought my eyes were fine, sure I had glasses and I was happy with them. Two of my sons are pleased with their LASIK surgery. This is the first I’ve heard of any dangers to Lasik.
“Just hold out until you get cataracts, and everything gets fixed at once.“
There is something to this statement. I got LASIK when i was about 50. It was very successful and i was very happy until the cataracts came 20 years later. My ophthalmologist then tells me that the algorithm they use to select the appropriate lens replacement doesn’t work well if you have had LASIK. He would just make an educated guess. He turned out to be 50% correct. I got one eye good on distance and one better for reading. I was not happy at first but have gotten used to it and am now happy with it. I can read the dashboard and things on shelves as well as my iPhone right now without readers.
And she wouldn't give it to me!
And she wouldn't give it to me!
They say they're gonna fix my eyes
By the time they're done with lies
Alleviate my suffering and my pain
I knew where to get my sight again:
Doesn’t matter, you’ll probably get hit by a car anyway.
My co-worker got this surgery. Wore glasses since a kid. His eyes improved dramatically and he never wore glasses the rest of his life 20+ years.
I had these type of symptoms, probably to a lesser degree, upwards of a year after my Lasik surgery. After that, no problems.
1% is more risky than people think, it means if 100,000 people do the procedure, you have 1000 people with bad results.
Latest numbers estimate more than 10 million of them have been done in the US, that means with 1% bad results you have 100,000 people who have issues.
You can write an article a day for 10 years without running out of subjects.
My Lasik surgeon was a former Harvard cardiologist, who went into opthamology because patient outcomes were so much better.
Had the second eye done the following Monday, and the same excuse.
My sight in left eye was 20/400 also.
One of the best days of my life. Not kidding!
You might try a different eye doctor for your next visit. Remember to complain about night driving.
Had mine done in 1999. Very pricey but went from 20/200 to 20/15. My whole world changed as I suddenly had peripheral vision! Haven’t had any problems aside from needing readers since last year and one eye now has floaters (as of 2 years ago). Only wish I was able to have had it done sooner.
Potential selection bias: most people READING this article do not have vision problems, blurring and pain.
whoa...I had the same thing. Got my cataracts removed last year.
I specifically asked them to make sure I can see the ground clearly (it’s all about golf and it was the reason I had the Lasik done back in early-mid 2000s-ish in the first place...had to get rid of bi-focals)
So I am now farsighted and near sighted...(still need readers for a distance a little better than arms length).
What changed with the lens replacement is my eye color is now green not brown.
BTTT!!!
I knew a woman who had pain for a year after lasic. But I also know several people that loved it.
I was born extremely nearsighted, with astigmatism. When LASIK came along, every doctor, I had said you are not a candidate, don’t do it. I have a sister who really tried to talk me into it. She did it and loved it. The problem is when you have cataract surgery, the prior LASIK disturbs the blood vessels in your eyes so that cataract surgery doesn’t work so well.
When I had cataract surgery and could see for the first time in my life, I was overjoyed, and I can still see quite well. They could never fix my astigmatism, however, and I still have to wear glasses for that but to me that’s in signature.
My sister, however has had great difficulty. She cannot see as well as she could with the LASIK and is very dissatisfied and disappointed now. I don’t think she’s in pain she just can’t see clearly.
I had it ten years ago or so. Literally one of the best things ever to happen to me! I was just old enough when it was done that the correction left me preferring (but not strictly needing) reading glasses up close. Ten years later I definitely need the reading glasses up close unless I make text on my phone BIG, and in the last year I benefit from reading glasses while working on the computer.
I don’t know anyone who had LASIK or other vision correction surgeries in the past 15 years who has ANY complaints and most remain ecstatic about it. People were in the first generation of patients, 20 years or so ago, tend to have issues with floaters and get halos from oncoming traffic and street lights when driving at night — but even then I cant’ think of one person who wishes he hadn’t had it.
Interestingly, people are now talking about Ozempic/Mounjaro/Wegovy/Zepbound the same way they’ve been talking about LASIK for ages — a silver bullet change for the better from science.
The only drawback with these lenses is they create halos around the lights at night as well as the fluorescent lights
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