http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/m...m%208500-7.pdf

 

All I had to do was have my optometrist fill that form out after the surgery. And then about 10 days later I got rechecked and was signed off for uncorrected 20/20 by my optometrist. Then I saved that form and turned it into my FAA medical doctor to file it with my next FAA Class 1 flight exam, which by the way was 8 months later.

The FAA doesn't really care as long as you're uncorrected 20/20. Make sure that you keep a copy of this with you while operating aircraft in case you get ramp checked by the FAA.

After your next medical is cleared and doesn't hold the restriction of "must wear corrective lenses" all is well.

 

T-Minus 18 hours for my custom wavefront lasik.... So freaking nervous. I'll let you know how it goes anyone who's interested or happens to check out this thread.

 

Good luck! Just take the valium and it'll be over in 5 mins. Worth any stress or discomfort it might cause you in the short term.

 

Well I'm four days out and I have 20/15 in right eye, but left is at 20/25. The doctor said it's inflammation and should settle down. I'll know at my 1 week post op checkup. Anyone else have slightly less than 20/20 after and had to wait a week or so for their vision to improve? It seems to be slightly improving gradually and it also gets clearer when I put the preservative free drops in, so it could easily be dry eye as well.

 

You will not know your true vision for 6 months to a year after having surgery.

For me, I was 20/20 after Lasik Surgery. I had a problem with dry eyes after the surgery that took a few years to resolve beleive it or not (they put these plugs in the lower tear ducts).

After that, my vision has been at least 20/15 or better...and that's 5 years post surgery.

I did 6 months of research before doing the surgery. I actually chose the doctor and laser. I found that best results were with the Wavelight Allegretto laser ... the interesting thing was it was not the type that does "custom lasik", but still yielded better results.

Also, I went to TLC laser center and they did about 3-4x more testing than the other 2 doctors I went to.

Go to a surgeon who either uses the Visx or the Wavelight Allegretto ... Make sure they've done tens of thousands of eyes and make sure they are reputable.

You may also want to consider PRK which is where they put the laser on the top of the eye as opposed to cutting a flap ... IT's safer for the integrity of the eye but a longer healing period.

 

Ya that's what my doc said as well. Sometimes it can take weeks or months. Same for the night vision problems.

 

One week post op evaluation I still missed 2 letters on 20/20 starting to get a little nervous. Doctor said it's dry eyes and it'll stabilize, but I'm starting to freak out.

 

one week is nothing. Give it 6 months brother, to be darn near fully stabilized

report back in 30 days post-op

- Happy PRK patient

 

Who had the femtolaser flap vs. the knife?