7 weeks post lasik, dry eye, help...

[Jovver]

My eyes are generally fine, a little blurriness very occasionally, but if I'm totally honest my visions is excellent.

Good luck with your consultation. I live in the UK so if this persists for a few more weeks, I'll look into doing the same thing.

Chances are we will both be fine in the long run, but it's very difficult not to worry about it when you are in the middle of it. I've slowly become obsessed with it, and I am trying to occupy myself with other things. The constant worry (and maybe even paranoia) has really worn me down over the last few weeks, and I've not enjoyed seeing what it has revealed about me. Anyway, it's really early days for both of us, so hopefully we will both look back on this in six months time and wonder what all the fuss was about.

Please let me know how you get on, it's really helped me to talk to someone about this.

[db_9]

Yup. I can relate to how hard it is to hold it together.

Another thing that LASIK has unlocked on me is what they call accommodation spasm. This is where you are focusing on the computer for a while and then when you look up it is all blurry. This takes a while to go away. The crappy part is that it only happens in my right eye, which is also the eye that is much drier and is my dominant eye. My left eye has not given me hardly any problems. If both eyes just turned out like that I would be one of the happy LASIK people. But not so much. So I am waiting for my prescription to settle down and then I am going to get some prescription computer glasses. I guess these help a lot.

How is your overall vision? Or does the dry eye just totally screw it up?

But you might be interested in what I did today. I had bought Dr Steven ******s book on dry eye from Amazon. After reading it I decided to google his name to see where his practice was. He is in Florida, and unfortunately I live in Massachusetts. But on his website you can send him an email. So I figured I would give it a shot and see if he could recommend a colleague up here in the Boston area. He got back to me in an hour with a name of a doctor!! So I am going to call and make an appointment on Monday and see what they say.

[Jovver]

I've been finding that holding it together is a lot more difficult than it sounds.

However, we are both still in the very early stages of healing so I have to got to hope that it is much more likely that things will get better with time. None of the people I spoke to before hand experienced such dry eyes either, but I guess that these things do happen and that in the vast majority of cases, things will improve radically.

[db_9]

Jovver,
Well sounds like we are in the same boat. I have read both horror stories of people never getting better. Then I have read stories of people that get better after a year or more. Everyone I know that has had LASIK absolutely loves it and had to complications at all. Figures. Just my luck. I am actually searching for a dry eye specialist in the Boston area to go for a second opinion.

The worst part about it is that I chose to have this done. I did it because I wanted to be active with my 4 year old and 6 year old. Things like swimming, skiing, etc. I hated when we were in the pool or at the beach and I couldn't tell which kids were mine. So I am trying to hold it together for these guys.

Good luck and I hope things clear up for you

[Jovver]

I really feel for you; I had Lasek 8 weeks ago and I am going through a similar experience unfortunately, and yes, I bitterly regret being stupid enough to go through with it.I haven't had any plugs put in or anything like that, but I am sure that someone on this site will be able to help or offer advice.

I agree that it's very difficult to remain positive when you feel like this, but as you say it is still the very earliest stages for both of us. Like you I've been very worried to read some of the terrible cases on here, but I would hope that they are the exception rather than the rule (and I'm really hoping that I'm not proved wrong on this).

Best wishes.

[db_9]

Unfortunately I had LASIK 7 weeks ago. I did my research and chose what I felt was a very reputable doctor that is a corneal specialist, not just a LASIK doctor. But after my surgery my right eye is plano, with a 0.5 astigmatism, and my left eye is +0.25, with the same astigmatism. I recently went to my own optometrist and that is what he told me my eyes were. I have not been back to see the surgeon so I am not sure why the astigmatism remains. My vision is not really that bad and I am 20/20 with both eyes. But I can tell the slight difference when looking in the distance. My optometrist also said my eyes don't look really dry. He put some sort of dye in my eyes. He also touched them with a piece of paper.

But this is more about dry eye. From the day of the surgery my right eye has been very dry. My left eye, the one with the clearer vision, has only bothered me a few days. It feels like I could still put in the preservative free drops every 15 minutes some days. I also have plugs in both eyes, do hot compresses daily, take about 2 grams of Omega 3s a day, wash my eye lashes with baby shampoo, and use a humidifier when I sleep. I am not sure what else I can do?? It constantly feels like there is an eyelash in the bottom rightside of my right eye. Also looking back on it I was never able to wear contacts. So I now wonder if it was due to dry eye.

I know after reading this forum that I am in the extremely early stages of recovery. But it seems all I read is horror stories that the dry eye never goes away. Yet on other websites that have doctors on it, they say it usually goes away in 3-6 months.

I totally regret this decision to get LASIK and would love to go back to my eyesight. But what is done is done. I just am not sure where to go from here? Should I contact a dry eye specialist this early in the recovery?