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I just read Diana's story for the first time. There are so many days that I look around me at the people that I am in contact with through work, family, etc. and I feel like I am the only person in the world who is experiencing the horrible physical and emotional problems that LASIK dry-eye has caused me. I know that there are many people, some better and some worse off than I am, that are going through this nightmare and hoping to wake up or somehow change the decision they made to have LASIK in the first place.
I was perfectly happy and content wearing my toric softlens 66 contacts during the day and my glasses to bed at night. I had family members that had RK done back in the 80's and my sister and cousin had LASIK a few years before I did. I played football in college and spent 4 years in and out of the NFL and a summer in NFL Europe. I knew of all the athletes that were having their vision improved with LASIK surgery and the wind and physical impact on the field would bother my eyes. I thought of having LASIK all the time and after my sports career was over I started working as a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative. Six months into my new career my grandmother gave me a check for $2500 dollars to have LASIK surgery. I was so excited. My wife and I had a new baby and now I was going to get rid of the inconvenience of contacts and glasses. My eval went fine and there were no concerns voiced. (Why oh Why didn't I research LASIK on the internet) The surgery was successful??? and after LASIK and to this day my vision has been b/w 20/15 and 20/20. I didn't notice it at the time but after my surgery the nasal side of my eyes became bloodshot and inflamed. Over the last 2 years it has gradually gotten worse. I have seen at least 5 opthalmologists over the last year and limited improvement. I am on restasis, biotears, theratears, barleans liquid flax oil, dwelle, dakrina, and tranquileyes. My wife is 28 wks pregnant with our second child (boy) and on bed rest. I am consumed with depression, regret, and resentment toward everyone that had a hand in my decision to have LASIK including myself, my surgeon and staff, my grandmother. I love my job and I used to be really good at it. I would get up as early as possible and enjoy every minute of my day. Now I find myself doing just enough to get by. All I want to do is sleep and I never want the morning to come because it is all that I can do to put my two feet on the ground and get out of bed. I feel like I am failing as a husband and father because I only think about my eyes. I spend all day talking to family and internal medicine drs and I can no longer look them in the eyes b/c my eyes are EXTREMELY bloodshot all the time. I spend every spare minute on this website and others like it or I go through old pictures of myself from before the surgery and wish I still saw that person when I look in the mirror. I wish there were some way to change what I have done because I really miss the man that I used to be. I notice everyone that passes by me in the car or in person that has glasses and sometimes I see the outline of contacts in their eyes and I am so jealous. I would give nearly anything to not have had LASIK and have the minor inconvenience of glasses and contacts. DN
I was perfectly happy and content wearing my toric softlens 66 contacts during the day and my glasses to bed at night. I had family members that had RK done back in the 80's and my sister and cousin had LASIK a few years before I did. I played football in college and spent 4 years in and out of the NFL and a summer in NFL Europe. I knew of all the athletes that were having their vision improved with LASIK surgery and the wind and physical impact on the field would bother my eyes. I thought of having LASIK all the time and after my sports career was over I started working as a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative. Six months into my new career my grandmother gave me a check for $2500 dollars to have LASIK surgery. I was so excited. My wife and I had a new baby and now I was going to get rid of the inconvenience of contacts and glasses. My eval went fine and there were no concerns voiced. (Why oh Why didn't I research LASIK on the internet) The surgery was successful??? and after LASIK and to this day my vision has been b/w 20/15 and 20/20. I didn't notice it at the time but after my surgery the nasal side of my eyes became bloodshot and inflamed. Over the last 2 years it has gradually gotten worse. I have seen at least 5 opthalmologists over the last year and limited improvement. I am on restasis, biotears, theratears, barleans liquid flax oil, dwelle, dakrina, and tranquileyes. My wife is 28 wks pregnant with our second child (boy) and on bed rest. I am consumed with depression, regret, and resentment toward everyone that had a hand in my decision to have LASIK including myself, my surgeon and staff, my grandmother. I love my job and I used to be really good at it. I would get up as early as possible and enjoy every minute of my day. Now I find myself doing just enough to get by. All I want to do is sleep and I never want the morning to come because it is all that I can do to put my two feet on the ground and get out of bed. I feel like I am failing as a husband and father because I only think about my eyes. I spend all day talking to family and internal medicine drs and I can no longer look them in the eyes b/c my eyes are EXTREMELY bloodshot all the time. I spend every spare minute on this website and others like it or I go through old pictures of myself from before the surgery and wish I still saw that person when I look in the mirror. I wish there were some way to change what I have done because I really miss the man that I used to be. I notice everyone that passes by me in the car or in person that has glasses and sometimes I see the outline of contacts in their eyes and I am so jealous. I would give nearly anything to not have had LASIK and have the minor inconvenience of glasses and contacts. DN
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