hello everybody out there,
i'm patrick,38 years old,live in the netherlands and i'm 4,5 years post lasek. after browsing this great site for a while i thought its now time to introduce myself,and share my story with you. i also do have some questions which maybe can be ansewered by any of you. in 2005 i got my both eyes treated with the lasek method instead of the lasik method cause my doctor advised me this. he stated that the lasek method is less dangerous for complications than lasik. after the surgery my eyes healed perfectly,and it took about 6 weeks to regain my eyesight in both eyes. untill this moment my eyesight is stable and perfect. in the first 20 months there was no problem at all with my eyes and they were also not dry at all to (never been before surgery as well).Than things changed and my eyes felt dryer and dryer. i couldn't understand it because i never experienced this before. it took another year before i went to an eyedoctor to get my eyes examined. he did some tests and told me that my situation was not very good,but also not very bad to.
the schirmer test was ok.the doctor told me that i make more than enough tears,on the other hand the tbut test was not that good. evaporation between 5 and 10 seconds. he calls this moderate dry eyes. is this true? from time to time it feels like a severe condition to me! a blepharitis could cause the instability of the tearfilm he told me. he was not sure if there really is a blepharitis,but he advised me to clean my eyelids for the rest of my life twice per day with a babyshampoo dilution anyway! i don't react very good to the shampoo thing at all. my eyes turn very red and become very dry after every time i clean them the way the doctor told me to. Is there another maybe less agressive way to clean the eyelids? just hand warm water or so?
ok that's it for now. any people who recognize my story with themselves? sometimes i think i'm the only one who struggles every day with this agonizing condition. it makes me very sad. i hope my enlish is not too bad and that it is possible to read it i a normal way
greetings,patrick...
i'm patrick,38 years old,live in the netherlands and i'm 4,5 years post lasek. after browsing this great site for a while i thought its now time to introduce myself,and share my story with you. i also do have some questions which maybe can be ansewered by any of you. in 2005 i got my both eyes treated with the lasek method instead of the lasik method cause my doctor advised me this. he stated that the lasek method is less dangerous for complications than lasik. after the surgery my eyes healed perfectly,and it took about 6 weeks to regain my eyesight in both eyes. untill this moment my eyesight is stable and perfect. in the first 20 months there was no problem at all with my eyes and they were also not dry at all to (never been before surgery as well).Than things changed and my eyes felt dryer and dryer. i couldn't understand it because i never experienced this before. it took another year before i went to an eyedoctor to get my eyes examined. he did some tests and told me that my situation was not very good,but also not very bad to.
the schirmer test was ok.the doctor told me that i make more than enough tears,on the other hand the tbut test was not that good. evaporation between 5 and 10 seconds. he calls this moderate dry eyes. is this true? from time to time it feels like a severe condition to me! a blepharitis could cause the instability of the tearfilm he told me. he was not sure if there really is a blepharitis,but he advised me to clean my eyelids for the rest of my life twice per day with a babyshampoo dilution anyway! i don't react very good to the shampoo thing at all. my eyes turn very red and become very dry after every time i clean them the way the doctor told me to. Is there another maybe less agressive way to clean the eyelids? just hand warm water or so?
ok that's it for now. any people who recognize my story with themselves? sometimes i think i'm the only one who struggles every day with this agonizing condition. it makes me very sad. i hope my enlish is not too bad and that it is possible to read it i a normal way
greetings,patrick...
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