Comments on: Lasik vs PRK: What the Lasik Doctor Doesn’t Tell You

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:34:19 +0000

Thank you very much for all the research and the effort to share the information to other people.
It really helps a lot and I highly appreciate it!!

By: Barbara Fuentes

Barbara Fuentes — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:03:18 +0000

Sorry to take so long replying.

The overcorrection was very slightly overcorrected even after 10 months, so I opted to take them up on their lifetime guarantee. I now need 1.25 reading glasses for small print or extended reading sessions, and do not require any glasses for basically anything else. Between surgeries I could read well but needed glasses to see far distance ie ride a bike or drive a car…or see the horizon. The nature nut inside me would not abide.

My eyes are a touch drier than they were before the surgeries but they’ve always run a bit on the dry side. I keep drops handy but only need them under particular circumstances such as running the fireplace last night.

I turned fifty last year, so I’m on par with normal-sighted peers.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:59:21 +0000

I had LASIK 20 years ago, with no problems. Had blepheroplasty 2017, have had severe dry eyes ever since. Have been told by an experienced eye specialist, my current symptoms are related to the LASIK done 20 years ago.

So please do not do LASIK or blepheroplasy, keep yours eyes healthy, wear glasses, and age gracefully!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:55:37 +0000

Did you go through with PRK?

By: Mr.Temple

Mr.Temple — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:25:00 +0000

Absolutely. But I’d never have a surgery that involves a cornea flap.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 03:59:49 +0000

if you hadn’t had your surgery, would you still have it today?

By: Jennie

Jennie — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 03:06:12 +0000

nancy, i am so sorry for the loss of your son. words can not express enough …..you say he had the lasik/ prk treatment? i thought the prk was the safest of the options? i ask as i am considering the prk surgery myself..(actually scheduled for friday)..i don’t mean to sound selfish in asking when you have lost so much; but i would love to know if it was actually the prk, or just lasik? thank you for sharing your story , so you can help others.. and again….i am so sorry for your devestating loss. blessings, jennie

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:19:26 +0000

This is interesting. I had my LASIK done at Lasik Plus in Westbury, Long Island NY in 2007

I was very satisfied, perhaps dryer eyes and I once had a stye after. But by and large I was pleased very much and had no noticeable issues. I am now 33 and my eyes upon a DMV required test showed I needed some aid. In contacts I need -.75 and-.50 so it not a lot and I forgot my original time of surgery need. Maybe a full point and .50 negative.

They offer PRK for me to retouch, but I am scared and now looking at other information since the internet has BOOMED since 2007 even more and possibly the surgeries and technology for the procedure and studies. I’m still unclear what to do especially since I am older and my activity levels are forced to decline because of joint diseases– I danced a lot in my life– not uncommon– that I won’t need as frequent unencumbered vision aid. It is hard reality. But this is life. I’ll keep my eyes open ….

By: Mr.Temple

Mr.Temple — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:12:40 +0000

Hi there. I’m glad you have had no issues yet, but you have been misinformed about the procedure done to your eyes.

The skin over your cornea-flap heals very quickly after Lasik, but the cut in the cornea itself will never heal.

There are numerous studies done and much work and study performed by Lasik doctors to reduce the permanent effects and potential side-effects of this never-healing cornea flap.

My advice to you is to not assume your eyes are structurally the same as they were before.

They are not.

See the citations in these articles from Lasik journals describing relatively minor rubbing or impacts to post-lasik eyes, which have dislodged the cornea flap, sometimes many, many years post surgery.

Do some more study and ask some impartial doctors about what you can do to mitigate the risks.

By: Sultan

Sultan — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:09:40 +0000

I disagree that corneal flap never heals because I have Lasik done twice in 6 months. When I have allergies, I rub my eyes very hard. If this article’s claims are true, rubbing eyes that hard would have dislodged the flap. I do agree with thickness issue.