r/RefractiveSurgery

I am looking into getting Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE) AKA PRELEX (Presbyopic Lens Exchange) pretty soon. My wife wants our next vacation in a resort in Mexico. I understand that RLE in Mexico is significantly cheaper and was considering maybe doing that while on vacation (2 birds, 1 stone and all). I would really like to hear back from people who have done this. Your thoughts on where to get done, is it work it, as well as your experiences with this would be helpful. Please if you have no experience in this matter and are only giving your opinion, please keep in mind that your opinion won't change mine.

Hi everyone, I am writing to see if you have knowledge or previous experience on my situation.

I had a LASIK enhancement surgery in my dominant ​eye on May 1. The surgery was to correct a refractive surprise from a cataract surgery. In the 1-week post op appointment, the ​optometrist found "organic matters" underneath the flap. She is referring me back to the ophthalmologist. I have yet to meet with the ophthalmologist.

My questions are Is this serious? Is it common? What happened to contribute to this situation? Did I do something wrong during the one week? What can i do to avoid this if the surgeon decided to reopen the flap to clean the matters?

M24 , I have opted for Wavelight plus innoveyes (claimed to be regression proof tech).

my worst fear is getting my numbers back. I had RE -5sph -1cyl , LE -4.75 -1cyl prescription.

my hospital offers free enachnement for the first 6 months.

i asked my doctor about regression he said the possibility is .01%.

how to be safe from regression?

40M. To try and keep a long story short, I had lasik 17 years ago for relatively mild myopia and astigmatism. All worked well. However over the past few years some astigmatism has returned, myopia has remained at Plano.

My current prescription is:

Right eye - plano sph, -1D Cyl

Left eye - Plano sph, - .75Cyl.

This has remained stable for at least 8 years, well, there has been a slightly .25 increase in my left eye. I went for a consultation the other day and overall eye health check.

Eyes are pretty much fine, some dry eye but nothing dramatic. Enough cornea and no irregularities. I actually see slightly below 20/20 with my left eye despite the astigmatism. This is now my dominant eye (it was the right eye before surgery).

My right eye is worse and I notice the blur much more. The surgeon said he would happily enhance the right eye (with transPRK as to not disturb the flap). But he said I see well enough with my left and doesn’t just want to ‘chase numbers’ on a prescription.

I’ll be going for a second consultation just because i also like the look of another surgeon. However, my question is, if I enhance my now non dominant eye - will I start to notice the slight imperfection in my current ‘good’ eye?? Or will it be likely that my overall sharpness increases with the enhancement? It’s quite confusing as I’d prefer both to be done - but then if I just have one I don’t want it to be a waste of time? Might my brain switch back to the right eye being dominant if corrected?

Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks everyone!

i got lasik done 10days ago , when should i resume riding my motorcycle without any eye protection ie sunglasses or transparent glasses?

(i know it's recommended to wear eye protection even if one didn't get any eye surgery)

Hi i am new in this community and i just had smile pro surgery 16 days ago and tbh reading through different reddit posts made me feel pessimistic about my surgery.

My surgeon said that the surgery was a success after my day 1 post op check up and that my vision was 6/9 i am due on my second check up in a week.

I wanted to see how’s the journey for everyone who’s done the surgery as i am still undecided if it’s my best or worst decision of my life.

My vision feels good for a moment of the day then it becomes bad for another moment not to mention the night vision with the halos so i just need to see how people who have done the surgery are doing now and when was their vision back to sharp and crisp.

20/20 is often used as a shorthand for a successful outcome after refractive surgery. But here’s the thing about “20/20”. It is actually just a population average; what a “normal” eye is expected to resolve or see at 20 ft. And in fact, many people actually see BETTER than 20/20.

So if your best corrected vision with a pair of glasses is better than 20/20 such as 20/15, you’ll may not be happy if your vision is “just” 20/20 after Lasik, PRK or ICL. The world will appear slightly out of focus compared to what you are used to. Despite having “perfect 20/20 vision”.

So 20/20 isn’t really the goal with refractive surgery. The best clinics, surgeons and plans actually aim to match or exceed what your eyes are capable of. This comes from pushing your eye to its maximum limit during the prescription refraction testing. This also comes from using modern technology such as wavefront-optimized, wavefront-guided, topography-guided or ray-tracing which can match or even improve the limit of your eyes are capable of seeing.

So really when talking about refractive surgery, it’s less important to discuss whether you will be 20/20 afterwards but instead whether the procedure can correct you or get you close to your very best possible correction.

I got my LASIK (femto LASIK) done a little more than two weeks ago on April 18. The 2 days post LASIK were rough, and I barely opened my eyes because of the pain, swelling and the amount of discharge. It got much, much better from Day 3 (April 21). Like an idiot though, I forgot to take the antibiotic drops for nearly 48 hours post LASIK.

Thankfully, there have been no complications and I have 20/20 vision now. The only thing is that my opthalmologist instructed me to continue using the antibiotic drops and the steroid drops for 2 weeks more when I last went for a checkup 5 days ago. All in all, nearly a month of usage (April 18-May 18). He has tapered the dosage for both since Week 2, down to 3 doses a day.

I trust him but I just wanted to see what you folks think. It's probably worth mentioning that I had visible swelling in my left eye that persisted for more than a week post LASIK.

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Hi all,

I got my surgery on one eye on Thursday and the doctor told me to remove my bandage contact lens on my own on Sunday. I'm a little scared to do it and am planning to wait one more day just to make sure everything is healed (plus if I do it on Monday and something goes wrong I can go to a doctor).

Did you remove your BCL yourself? Any tips on how to remove it?

Edit: thanks all, I'm going to see the doctor tomorrow so surgery day + 5th day and will ask him to remove the BCL. Will be posting a my PRK experience post soon!

Lingering blurriness following a refractive surgery procedure such as Lasik, PRK or SMILE very rarely is the result of any surgical complication or failure of the technology. Instead, it is almost always some residual refractive error or remaining prescription. A small amount of nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism may remain after the eye has finished healing.

Today’s laser treatments are very sophisticated and accurate. However, it is impossible to have 100% accuracy when dealing with living tissue such as the cornea. There are unique factors such as your own individual biomechanical response to the treatment or the way your corneal epithelium remodels that affect the final prescription of the eye.

In addition to just being “blurry”, residual prescription often can lead to post-op eye strain and “visual fatigue” as you work harder to focus through the slight defocus. Additionally, many nighttime vision symptoms are actually caused by these lingering prescription errors as the same blur you notice during the day makes it much harder to see at night.

The good news is that residual prescription error can be fixed. Once the eye has stabilized and if there is enough corneal thickness remaining, an enhancement or touch-up procedure can take care of the remaining prescription and improve the blurriness.