Guys I need help with EYE surgery and ocular rosacea.

[moni]

Hi,

I wonder if any of you has any experience with IOL (Implantable Contact Lenses) as a mean to have vision correction in someone with dry eyes because of MGD or ocular rosacea. My dry eye pain has diminished soo much, but I still hate my glasses and I'm heartbroken because I can never have Lasik done.

If anyone has any info I would greatly appreciate it, Thanks.

[Lucy]

Moni-I had Lasik done 11 years ago and it caused dry eyes and also ruined my vision. I won't detail it, but that's it in a nutshell.

You want info and this forum is full of it. If not for dry eye caused by Lasik, this board would not be here. Rebecca was the inventor of this forum. There won't be many on here who have iol's. You might get some info, though. I had a cataract operated on 5 years ago and of course they use iol's for that. My surgery was not good, but not because of the iol. The dr was an idiot.

I hope someone comes in with better/more info for you. Since you can't have Lasik, I think you missed the bullet.

[moni]

Hi Lucy, thanks for the reply but I think you misunderstood my question. I don't want to get Lasik done at all, but I'm asking about ICL vision correction, which is a procedure for people with dry eye, thin corneas, or excessive myopia. It doesn't deal with the surface of the eye so it doesn't mess with the nerves that trigger moisture.

It is double the price of Lasik for these reasons, and I was wondering if anyone knows anything about it.

[Rebecca Petris]

Lucy understood your question - see her reference to IOLs (intra-ocular lenses).

I can't recall whether we've had anyone at all here with elective lens implant surgery (there are several kinds) who had something to say about how their dry eye fared. But cataract surgery is so similar that I would suggest you look for threads about how people have been with dry eye after cataract surgery. I think it's a mixed bag. I have known some people with severe dry eye who did OK and others whose eyes got much worse, at least for awhile.

Personally, I've never been all that impressed with what I've read of the visual results after these lens implant surgeries. But I haven't really kept up with the studies on it in the last few years.

[moni]

Thanks Rebecca, my ophtamologist recommended the surgery to me and I was also reading this thing on them:


Proponents of the procedure say the implantable lenses provide sharper vision than laser vision correction surgery. The manufacturing process for phakic IOLs reduces the risk for optical distortions and higher order aberrations that can be caused by laser procedures, especially when corrections for high amounts of myopia are needed.

Also, because no corneal tissue is removed during the phakic IOL procedure, there is no risk of dry eye problems caused by damage to delicate nerves in the cornea that are important in maintaining an adequate tear layer on the eye.


Thanks anyway