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I did LASIK surgery 10 months ago. I would like to say that prior to that point my eyes were completely healthy and I was a healthy person overall. Prior to surgery, i had -1.75 in both eyes. After my surgery in February 2010, I had no problems whatsoever. My vision in both eyes is 20/15 which is great(there is no typo here). I only had occasional dry eye and it never really bothered me as over the counter artificial drops were working fine. I used to put a drop every 1-2 weeks. It was never a problem.
However, a month ago on November 15, 2010, i woke up with irritation in my eyes. I don't know how to describe this irritation exactly. It's not exactly pain. It's more of an irritation. Sometimes I feel like there is something in my eye. The weirdest thing about this irritation is that 95% of the time, it only effects one eye at a time. It's either my left eye that's bothering me, or my right eye that's bothering me, almost never both. I would also like to note that my eyes are white. The irritation stays the same regardless of the environment I'm in. It is not effected by wind, or plenty of humidity. It fluctuates in severity during the day regardless of the environment.
Ever since that date, I have visited 3 different ophthalmologists. The first was the clinic where my surgery was performed. He told me that I have dry eyes and that he recommends i insert punctal plugs, which I did. The plugs did not give me any sort of relief. My eyes were also over-tearing during the first 6 hours of the day. After five days, I visited the clinic again and removed the plugs. I then began trying Refresh Lacrilub every night before I slept for about 4 days but that also did not provide any relief. At that point, i decided to visit a second opthalmologist.
The second ophthalmologist told me that my problem was probably not a dry eye problem since i had no problems with dry eye up to that point. He told me that he saw some inflammation in my eyes and he gave me a prescription for Nevanac. The Nevanac drops were the first drops to give me any type of relief but they did not make the irritation go away completely. They removed most of the irritation however. After revisiting the doctor, he told me to keep using Nevanac until the problem went away and then to slowly lower the dose afterward.
The third opthalmologist i visited told me my eyes were a little dry but they shouldn't be causing me this much irritation/pain and that they certainly didn't need punctal plugs. However he also told me he did not know why the irritation is happening and that my eyes looked healthy. I respect this doctor for his honesty although he really did frustrate me.
I don't know what to do anymore. The irritation has not gone away in 34 days now. I don't know whether it is happening because of dry eye or because of something else as there is evidence pointing in both directions. I am very confused and need help.
I want to visit Dr.Latkany in New York as he seems to be the only one that can give me a definite answer but his office is closed until December 27. Until then, any comments would be welcome.
Thank you so much for reading this lengthy post. It means to me a lot more than you can imagine.
I did LASIK surgery 10 months ago. I would like to say that prior to that point my eyes were completely healthy and I was a healthy person overall. Prior to surgery, i had -1.75 in both eyes. After my surgery in February 2010, I had no problems whatsoever. My vision in both eyes is 20/15 which is great(there is no typo here). I only had occasional dry eye and it never really bothered me as over the counter artificial drops were working fine. I used to put a drop every 1-2 weeks. It was never a problem.
However, a month ago on November 15, 2010, i woke up with irritation in my eyes. I don't know how to describe this irritation exactly. It's not exactly pain. It's more of an irritation. Sometimes I feel like there is something in my eye. The weirdest thing about this irritation is that 95% of the time, it only effects one eye at a time. It's either my left eye that's bothering me, or my right eye that's bothering me, almost never both. I would also like to note that my eyes are white. The irritation stays the same regardless of the environment I'm in. It is not effected by wind, or plenty of humidity. It fluctuates in severity during the day regardless of the environment.
Ever since that date, I have visited 3 different ophthalmologists. The first was the clinic where my surgery was performed. He told me that I have dry eyes and that he recommends i insert punctal plugs, which I did. The plugs did not give me any sort of relief. My eyes were also over-tearing during the first 6 hours of the day. After five days, I visited the clinic again and removed the plugs. I then began trying Refresh Lacrilub every night before I slept for about 4 days but that also did not provide any relief. At that point, i decided to visit a second opthalmologist.
The second ophthalmologist told me that my problem was probably not a dry eye problem since i had no problems with dry eye up to that point. He told me that he saw some inflammation in my eyes and he gave me a prescription for Nevanac. The Nevanac drops were the first drops to give me any type of relief but they did not make the irritation go away completely. They removed most of the irritation however. After revisiting the doctor, he told me to keep using Nevanac until the problem went away and then to slowly lower the dose afterward.
The third opthalmologist i visited told me my eyes were a little dry but they shouldn't be causing me this much irritation/pain and that they certainly didn't need punctal plugs. However he also told me he did not know why the irritation is happening and that my eyes looked healthy. I respect this doctor for his honesty although he really did frustrate me.
I don't know what to do anymore. The irritation has not gone away in 34 days now. I don't know whether it is happening because of dry eye or because of something else as there is evidence pointing in both directions. I am very confused and need help.
I want to visit Dr.Latkany in New York as he seems to be the only one that can give me a definite answer but his office is closed until December 27. Until then, any comments would be welcome.
Thank you so much for reading this lengthy post. It means to me a lot more than you can imagine.
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