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So I am 9 weeks post Lasik in one eye and have severe dry eye in that eye. I had RCE for three weeks but the bandage contact lens has helped prevent any more (another surgeon at the practice put this in as my surgeon was off that day). My surgeon seems to believe systane drops are a magic potion and I have had to ask for tear plug one and then plug two. All changes to my diet and environment have come from this site or others.
So my question is about TBUT and the Schimer's test. When I asked at my last appointment about testing to see if it was the quality or quantity of my tears that was wrong he said he already knew. That the Lasik had severed the nerves and therefore it was my reflex tear production that was no longer functioning properly.
I did not have either of these tests before the Lasik, and only heard of them through this site, and read then on the FDA site that a surgeon SHOULD perform the Schirmer test prior to Lasik, though I understand that the reliabilty of the Schirmer's test is open to question...whats done is done on that one though.
So my question to you is....should I be insisting and expecting him to do these tests on me so that I can track my progress, or lack thereof, or do these tests not apply to me as I am a post Lasik patient. I need to know where I stand on this as I need to be firm with him, because it is only because of me educating myself on this problem that I have got this far. And I have you people and this site to thank for that.
thanks for your help.
So I am 9 weeks post Lasik in one eye and have severe dry eye in that eye. I had RCE for three weeks but the bandage contact lens has helped prevent any more (another surgeon at the practice put this in as my surgeon was off that day). My surgeon seems to believe systane drops are a magic potion and I have had to ask for tear plug one and then plug two. All changes to my diet and environment have come from this site or others.
So my question is about TBUT and the Schimer's test. When I asked at my last appointment about testing to see if it was the quality or quantity of my tears that was wrong he said he already knew. That the Lasik had severed the nerves and therefore it was my reflex tear production that was no longer functioning properly.
I did not have either of these tests before the Lasik, and only heard of them through this site, and read then on the FDA site that a surgeon SHOULD perform the Schirmer test prior to Lasik, though I understand that the reliabilty of the Schirmer's test is open to question...whats done is done on that one though.
So my question to you is....should I be insisting and expecting him to do these tests on me so that I can track my progress, or lack thereof, or do these tests not apply to me as I am a post Lasik patient. I need to know where I stand on this as I need to be firm with him, because it is only because of me educating myself on this problem that I have got this far. And I have you people and this site to thank for that.
thanks for your help.
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