Originally Posted by
Ibaquarius
Mooney....
I was just looking at medical issues before leaving your forum... I worked in eye surgery, (RN) and also had Lasik myself.(wave).
1. Do you have any discomfort with your contacts-even when they are new?
2. Do you live or are in a dry climate for any length of time?
3. Do you see halos at night now? (Car headlights?)
4. How bad is your vision now-must remember to ask good friend who sent me here to post originally, but if I remember correctly, no worse than 20/40
uncorrected?
5. How often do you use moisture drops?
6. Do you have allergies-do you use eye drops for allergies? Do you take medication for allergies? Most of them dry out your eyes already.
Dry eye is evident in more than 50% of people who have had surgery.
The more the cornea has to be reshaped the greater the chance.
Dry eye starts because when the layer of cornea is cut, the nerves become less sensitive-so when your eye normally says 'make tears, I am dry', the eye now does not feel the dryness yet cuz the nerve endings are no longer sensitive.
There are eye drops and meds, but if you have either sensitive eyes already, or live in a dry climate, (you already work in a dry cockpit...), the problem can be very painful continuously.
Restasis is not a cure-all!
Be very, very certain before you do Lasik. If the doc poo-hoo's your questions, RUN!! The other way....
Good luck.
Yes starting about a month ago my contacts, even new ones started bothering me. The doctor said it was because my white blood cells were building up and that was causing the irritation. He said I'd have to try a different contact most likely with a different curvature. He stressed that lasik would fix this,but it seemed like a sell. It was weird. Also the first girl that saw me was new and didn't know too much which rubbed me the wrong way. But here's the deal Dr. den besta won ophthalmologist of the year in Florida a while back and was also nominated for ophthalmologist of the decade in Florida. Plus he's assisted over 40,000 lasik operations. I mean based on that he's the guy, along with his surgeon who I liked and also has a pretty good resume. So I don't know if this guy is that good that he is cocky or what.
Two questions I forgot to ask were... Are multiple eye floaters in each eye an issue(I assume not)? And do you use a check list pre,during and post surgery?
I do not have halos now or very minimal that I barely notice.
I have 20/400 in each eye.
I don't have allergies
I don't live in a dry climate (fla)
He seemed pretty damn sure of himself that I would not have any dry eye issues or night vision issues( although he said he doesn't know for sure until we do the wavefront and measure the pupils in the darkroom. He also said he's worked with pilots before. Ahhhh I don't know what to do!!!!!