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I thought I should update everyone now that it has been 24 hours since my first IPL treatment with Dr. Assil. Here is my experience.
I arrived at 1:30 (my appt was at 1:45). The office is nice the people working there are very friendly. I was not taken back until 2:45. Once I got taken back I was met there by Angel, the "practice development director." She talked to me for a while. Eventually Dr. Assil came in and took me to an examination room ( I was in the IPL room, where the machine is). He did various tests including a TBUT, I think I was a 5 & 6 on those from what I saw in his notes, I should have asked. He examined me for a while and asked all sorts of questions about prior treatments, I think to make sure that everything else had been tried. Next he expressed the glands and then had an assistant take various pictures of my eye to.
He then went to do a LASIK procedure and came back an hour and 20 minutes later to see how long the relief from the expression had lasted. It had lasted about 45 min to an hour.
He then examined the pictures to make sure my eyes could handle the treatment since I had had LASIK 2 years ago he wanted to make sure that I had healed correctly. Finally he did the IPL treatment, did two sweeps of it and then took me next door to the exam room to do the expressions again. He said the oil coming out from the left eye was "murky" not "toothpastey" but then he said the right was more toothpastey (which he said is not ideal).
Dr. Assil did tell me to stop my doses of Restasis (which I have been on for about a year).
I still don't have another appointment. scheduled. Angel said she would call me to check up on me and schedule another appointment then.
As for the results. My eyes were definitely whiter than they normally are right after the treatment. ( I have very red eyes all day they are usually worst in the morning and at night). This morning I woke up and for the first time in a while my eyelids hadn't stuck to my eye overnight. I also noticed that my eyes were less red than normal and I actually had sleep in the inner corners, again this has not happened in about two years.
The redness did come back a little bit as the day has gone on. I do feel better than normal especially on the left eye which is my worst one. The right is pretty much the same... still dry, but not as painful as usual.
Please let me know if you have any questions about my experience and I will try to update this when anything changes.
: )
I thought I should update everyone now that it has been 24 hours since my first IPL treatment with Dr. Assil. Here is my experience.
I arrived at 1:30 (my appt was at 1:45). The office is nice the people working there are very friendly. I was not taken back until 2:45. Once I got taken back I was met there by Angel, the "practice development director." She talked to me for a while. Eventually Dr. Assil came in and took me to an examination room ( I was in the IPL room, where the machine is). He did various tests including a TBUT, I think I was a 5 & 6 on those from what I saw in his notes, I should have asked. He examined me for a while and asked all sorts of questions about prior treatments, I think to make sure that everything else had been tried. Next he expressed the glands and then had an assistant take various pictures of my eye to.
He then went to do a LASIK procedure and came back an hour and 20 minutes later to see how long the relief from the expression had lasted. It had lasted about 45 min to an hour.
He then examined the pictures to make sure my eyes could handle the treatment since I had had LASIK 2 years ago he wanted to make sure that I had healed correctly. Finally he did the IPL treatment, did two sweeps of it and then took me next door to the exam room to do the expressions again. He said the oil coming out from the left eye was "murky" not "toothpastey" but then he said the right was more toothpastey (which he said is not ideal).
Dr. Assil did tell me to stop my doses of Restasis (which I have been on for about a year).
I still don't have another appointment. scheduled. Angel said she would call me to check up on me and schedule another appointment then.
As for the results. My eyes were definitely whiter than they normally are right after the treatment. ( I have very red eyes all day they are usually worst in the morning and at night). This morning I woke up and for the first time in a while my eyelids hadn't stuck to my eye overnight. I also noticed that my eyes were less red than normal and I actually had sleep in the inner corners, again this has not happened in about two years.
The redness did come back a little bit as the day has gone on. I do feel better than normal especially on the left eye which is my worst one. The right is pretty much the same... still dry, but not as painful as usual.
Please let me know if you have any questions about my experience and I will try to update this when anything changes.
: )
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