Lasik Eye Doctors

[ray1970]

Still digging my bionic eyes as well. Sucks that I can't use bad eyesight as an excuse for my poor shooting any more.

[Sawin]

My prescription going in was -7.5 in my right eye and -6.75 in my left. For those who don't know, that's pretty dang terrible. I could not function beyond walking around my house, without corrective lenses.
Since 7th grade, I almost exclusively wore contacts. My glasses were on my night stand and another pair in my glove box, just for security's sake....

14 days before LASIK, I was told to stop wearing contacts and revert to glasses in order for any corneal deformation induced by my contacts to reverse. This was especially important since I wore "toric" contacts.

On 11/20, Insight LASIK in Boulder performed my surgery. While I am functional without any further corrective lenses, my vision is far from 20/20. I'll be going in tomorrow morning for an exam to determine where I stand, and hopefully schedule the touch up. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say I am no better than 20/30 in my left and north of 20/40 in my right. There is a fairly significant disparity between the two, for the moment.

Nevertheless, I am confident that Insight will make it right. Evidently with prescriptions as strong as mine were, needing a touch up (after a conservative, first pass) is not uncommon.

It makes sense to me that under-correcting is a much safer bet simply because it can be touched up... over correcting cannot. I will report back once i've been touched up and am "as good as I'm going to get".

[Sawin]

My prescription going in was -7.5 in my right eye and -6.75 in my left. For those who don't know, that's pretty dang terrible......
....If I had to venture a guess, I'd say I am no better than 20/30 in my left and north of 20/40 in my right. There is a fairly significant disparity between the two, for the moment.

Well my guesstimate wasn't far off. I'm seeing 20/25 in my left eye and 20/40 in my right. The touch-up procedure cannot be any sooner than 3 months after the first procedure, so I'll be going in again in February for a follow up exam and again in March, to validate the prescription I have now is not fluctuating at all.

Assuming it's not, my touch up lasik procedure should be scheduled in March.

For what it's worth, I have been assured I will not be stuck with the current vision for good... They will indeed, "make it right".

[CHA-LEE]

How could they properly measure your cornea correction needed without having your contacts removed for longer? When my wife got LASIK done, she wore contacts, and they had her stop wearing them for at least 30 days before the start of the procedure. They also had her come in several times during that 30 days to retake the cornea measurements to adjust the Laser treatment as needed.

I hate to say, but it sounds like your LASIK Provider jumped the gun on performing the procedure without doing enough homework first.

[Snowman78]

With me they said 14 days, I however went with out contacts for about 5 weeks. I also had to have a touch up.

[Irving]

I think I was told 14 days as well, but also went longer in anticipation. My eyes were nearly as bad and was told I couldn't do Lasik.

[ray1970]

Sawin, hope they get you all tuned up. My vision wasn't quite as bad as yours but it was close. I had astigmatism and also wore toric contacts. I don't recall how long I had to wear my glasses but seems like it was about 14 days. They also did another set of readings or measurements or whatever on the morning of my surgery. Maybe you'll get lucky and things will settle in over the next month or two. I know for the first month or two following my procedure my vision was a little intermittent. There were times things were pretty clear and times when things seemed a little blurry. And it always seemed there was a slight fogginess as well. As time passed and things healed my vision just got better and better. It's been about seven months since my procedure and I can now see clearly all the time and the fogginess is gone. I'm officially 20/15 in both eyes now.

[Sawin]

How could they properly measure your cornea correction needed without having your contacts removed for longer? When my wife got LASIK done, she wore contacts, and they had her stop wearing them for at least 30 days before the start of the procedure. They also had her come in several times during that 30 days to retake the cornea measurements to adjust the Laser treatment as needed.

I hate to say, but it sounds like your LASIK Provider jumped the gun on performing the procedure without doing enough homework first.

14 days is standard. No rush whatsoever. The cornea is what's flapped open, the lens is what's reshaped. The fact is my prescription was so bad and the margin of error for my corrective procedure so large, the best practice was to be cautious, thus under correct on the first pass. It's evidently quite common. Two of my colleagues, out of a company of 40, have had the same experience.