Serum Tears / Nerve Regeneration study?

[patientpatrick]

I'm looking for a concrete study regarding the clinical use of Serum Drops that have helped regenerate severed nerves Post Lasik. I talked to my opthalmologist about serum drops yesterday and he hasn't heard of serum drops serving as a means to re-grow nerves, only that they are the closest fluid to...

[patientpatrick]

Okay I understand this was a study done on animals. But I'm realllllllly confused. I thought that the use of cyclosporine was supposed to help in the regeneration of nerves after refractive surgery?

Now it looks like it prevents the regeneration of nerves!!!

I'm so confused....

[kurt]

From Eyeworld.org article Lenticule may beat LASIK in the dry eye arena:...

[PRK]

So I was recently prescribed some Restasis in hope that it might be able to help me somehow but I have some conflicts.

1. I understand that Restasis works by suppressing inflammation of the eye and lacrimal ducts which allows your eye to produce more tears but my eyes aren’t really red...