I had collagen cross linking (CXL) in 2023 and last week had CATz (laser topography guided laser).
CXL was successful in that my cornea is steady and stopped deteriorating.
Since then, I’ve been wearing glasses.
CATz was recommended to me to fix the steep topography in the lower part of my cornea (Steeper curve vs shallow).
I am still healing and my eyesight is poor currently. The recovery was somewhat easy aside from a couple tough days of pain. Has anyone else done this procedures and can speak personally on their results?
Next, I have the option of getting PRK as an eye sight ‘correction’ ie no glasses needed after.
They recommended CATz before PRK since my prescription would be finer tuned after the benefits of CATz. I was told I could do one or the other in either order, or both, but that CATz and then PRK would yield the best results.
What I haven’t been able to determine anywhere is to what degree should I expect my eyesight to improve from the CATz alone? Anyone had this done before? Thanks and goodluck all!