After Laser Eye surgery
Finished my laser eye surgery last week. The procedure was very easy. It didn’t hurt and wasn’t uncomfortable. Pretty much the first thing they did was put a vacuum over the eye to make the cut. After that I couldn’t really see anything so it wasn’t weird or anything. If anybody is thinking of going for it they shouldn’t worry. I was very nervous going in, in fact I was shaking. But it’s so easy. The only thing was I jumped when the laser fired. It’s very loud. However the procedure was much easier than the dentist or anything like that. If they told me I had to go back tomorrow and do the procedure as well it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.
Check out a YouTube video of someone’s surgery. And listen for the laser it’s so loud! Oh and you can smell your eye burning when they fire the laser. Very cool.
I know it looks uncomfortable but with the local anaesthetic drops they put in you don’t feel a thing!
My vision is much better. In fact I could pretty much see straight after the surgery. However it was a little blurry compared to when I was wearing my contact lenses. But compared to what I could see without lenses it was brilliant. Around 80% of what I used to see with the lenses.
However my vision is still blurry three weeks later. It hasn’t seemed to improve at all since the day after the operation. Everything is kind of blurry and I have slight double vision (what they call ghosting apparently). So I rang the surgeon and asked for an appointment. Which I have tomorrow. I am getting headaches in work straining to see the projector and students computer screens. And I am kind of nervous driving still.
But perhaps it is improving but just too slowly to see. We’ll find out tomorrow.
Good Luck tomorrow
What’s the update on the eyes John? Would love to know, seriously looking into Laser now since I’ve had an eye infection for the last 5 weeks and am stuck with my glasses :(
I went in and he said the eyes were physically fine. He looked into them and said the flap and healed and everything. In fact I was able to go back playing sports the next Monday. 2 weeks ahead of schedule. He said not to worry about the blurriness, it may take up to 4 months for the eyes to be 100%. He could have told me that before I had the operation!
In fairness thought the right eye today seems much better. The left still isn’t great. He said if in 4 months I’m still not right I can go back and do the operation again. He can’t do it sooner becuase you have to wait for it to heal 100% before you can do it again. Which takes 4 months. But I’d obviously rather not do the operation again.
They’re not dry or anything apart from that just that I can’t see as well as I could with the contacts. I’d say after just over a month the left eye is at around 70% and the right at 75%. Which is enough to get around fine, in fact I can drive and everything but it’s very irritating. Especially when trying to see things on shelves in the shop and stuff.
Hopefully it’ll start increasing rapidly after 6 weeks which was when I was originally supposed to go back for my check-up.
Well it’s 6 months now. The right eye is pretty good, no complaints. The left however is still blurry. Still around 5% weaker than the right. Which is a pain as it’s my predominant eye. Went into him last week and he said there is a slight astigmatism on the left. Probably because the suction didn’t fit over it well I reckon. Anyway he feels it’s too small an irregularity to go back to correct it, but it’s really irritating me. He said it may still improve though so I guess I’ll have to wait a longer.