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Background: I am 10 months post-Lasik, and have been dealing with dry eye.
One week ago I started using autologous serum eye drops. I haven't noticed that they are helping with the dryness at all, unfortunately, but there has been another troubling development. My vision has become slightly hazy. It's difficult to describe exactly, but in dim lighting it is harder for me to see, and I find myself wanting to turn on all the lights in the room to make it as bright as possible. I would also describe it as visual noise, the way that when you take a photograph in low lighting conditions, you see lots of colored dots obscuring the details of the photo. What I see is not that pronounced or obvious, but it is still detectable. I also feel that my depth perception is off, and it's difficult to focus, especially on my computer screen.
Could this be related to the serum drops? This symptom of seeing poorly in low-light conditions is a common one I have seen reported by Lasik patients. I experienced this for a while immediately following my surgery, but I haven't experienced it again until I started using the serum drops.
My understanding is that the nerves in my cornea are supposedly regrowing. They can either grow back correctly, or in a malformed way, or not at all. How do serum drops affect the re-growth of corneal nerves?
Also, I have been researching the osmolarity of eyes, and how eyes that are dry are typically hyperosmolaric. That is, a higher salt content. I've also been looking into the oncotic pressure of the eye. I'm not sure how serum tears would affect either of these. I've wondered if maybe I have excess fluid within my cornea, leading to the haziness. As an experiment I used Muro 128 eye drops a few times, thinking that might draw any moisture out of the cornea and clear my vision. So far, that only seemed to make my eyes slightly drier, and did not alleviate the haziness.
Any insight anyone may have is greatly appreciated!
One week ago I started using autologous serum eye drops. I haven't noticed that they are helping with the dryness at all, unfortunately, but there has been another troubling development. My vision has become slightly hazy. It's difficult to describe exactly, but in dim lighting it is harder for me to see, and I find myself wanting to turn on all the lights in the room to make it as bright as possible. I would also describe it as visual noise, the way that when you take a photograph in low lighting conditions, you see lots of colored dots obscuring the details of the photo. What I see is not that pronounced or obvious, but it is still detectable. I also feel that my depth perception is off, and it's difficult to focus, especially on my computer screen.
Could this be related to the serum drops? This symptom of seeing poorly in low-light conditions is a common one I have seen reported by Lasik patients. I experienced this for a while immediately following my surgery, but I haven't experienced it again until I started using the serum drops.
My understanding is that the nerves in my cornea are supposedly regrowing. They can either grow back correctly, or in a malformed way, or not at all. How do serum drops affect the re-growth of corneal nerves?
Also, I have been researching the osmolarity of eyes, and how eyes that are dry are typically hyperosmolaric. That is, a higher salt content. I've also been looking into the oncotic pressure of the eye. I'm not sure how serum tears would affect either of these. I've wondered if maybe I have excess fluid within my cornea, leading to the haziness. As an experiment I used Muro 128 eye drops a few times, thinking that might draw any moisture out of the cornea and clear my vision. So far, that only seemed to make my eyes slightly drier, and did not alleviate the haziness.
Any insight anyone may have is greatly appreciated!
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