Ok I need some help. I'm unsure about some things and I have a few questions. First here's what happened. A little more than a year ago I had lasik surgery done at the Lasik Plus in Sugarland. I felt like I needed it bad. I was basically legally blind without my glasses; extremely nearsighted. I was unsure about the whole lasik surgery procedure at the time for the most part. A family friend recommended Lasik Plus cause she got her surgery performed there along with her son. I read somewhere on the web about the place saying that they don't have the latest tech so that had me a little worried but since I was recommended by family friends and they had a good experience, I just went with it. I was little desperate in a way cause I felt like my vision was getting slightly worse by the years and didn't want to get another higher prescription for glasses. The morning before the surgery the doctor that was performing it checked me up and told me that there could be a risk that I could have glaring and halos for the rest of my life cause of the size of my pupil were a little bit bigger than normal. Asked him what were the chances of it and he said it was little and said that's why I was gonna have the certain procedure that was recommended to me. I thought it was kinda effy that he told me about that before surgery but I just went along with it. The surgery went through quick and smoothly and I was sent home to rest. I was able to see better than I had since I was a much younger. The only problem was the glaring and halos at night but I was told that glaring/halos at night from lights was gonna be there for the 1st couple of weeks like most people. Also told by my doctors that it usually takes around a 8 months for some patients eyes to fully heal. It's a little more than a year later and I STILL have glaring and halos with dry eyes and the glaring has been getting gradually worse I think. I don't even go drive or go out at night usually cause of all the glaring lights. It's been depressing now that I can't do something little as pick up a family member from work cause the sun is down or starting down. I contracted them and had a visit with a doctor there a little while back about this and he prescribed Restasis, a really expensive eye drop for cronic dry eyes, and said it should help with my glaring. I used it for about a month but didn't notice really any help with the glaring. I read on the web about people that have had lasik surgery and are going through the same things as me and I'm wondering if anyone here has had lasik surgery and is having problems with glaring or knows someone that does. Is there something out there that can help with the problem? Any info would be appreciated.
I've had my Lasik surgery done 2.5+ years ago. I had thin corneas so I had the PRK done on me. It was a painful first couple of days as I didn't see anything, but within a week, my vision got WAY better. The thing that was annoying me was the dry eyes. Got some eye drops and stopped blasting the ac when I'm driving or having the fan on when I'm sleeping helped with that big time. I dealt with the Halos and glaring for the first 3 months, but they eventually went away. It was a pain to deal with, as it felt as my eyes were constantly going in and out of auto-focus, but ALL is better now. I had 4 other family members get Lasik done and they haven't reported any issues at all. I hope you get things corrected somehow with the halo and glaring, because I know it's a PAIN to deal with.
I wish I could help. How bad is the glaring, can you describe it? You said it was bad only at night. Do you just see halos around light polls, and other lights? Did your eyes get dry like this before the surgery? My aunt did Lasik and her eyes get dry, but she said it is because of cigarette smoke. She has drops for them. My eyes get a little dry, but I stare at a monitor for one or two hours a day. I think that's what causes it for me. Anyways, I'm not sure but I think you have astigmatism from what you said about the size of your pupils. If so, your vision will continue to get worse as you continue to age. I am not sure if the surgery will change that or not. I am sorry I could not be more helpful.
The last time I spoke with my eye doctor was when I was experiencing a little burning in one of my eyes a while back and he gave me something to help it and told me to check back with him in a month. I think he said the first couple of months or weeks it takes the eyes a while to heal and reshape back to normal(or something like that) and told me to give it some time but it's been more than a year now and I don't think it's going away. There's another thing forgot to mention was that I'm also am have a little ghosting effect from things like white letters or small white objects with dark backgrounds. Like on TV/ movies, white letters and such would have the ghosting effect. For the how bad the glaring is. It's pretty bad now. I see it all around at night on where ever there's light source, like from light polls, headlights, etc. First couple of weeks or 1st month it wasn't as bad but I notice it's been getting gradually worse with my vision. I'm afraid I'm gonna need glasses again real soon. It's gotten to the point now that I even get a little glaring during the day in the shaded areas where there's a light. I think before the surgery I had a bit of dry eyes but not as bad as after getting lasik done.
Got lasik a while back. I had really bad vision like you did so the doctor gave me a lot of the same warnings (halo, dry eyes, etc...). I did have halos the first couple weeks but I don't remember them lasting for that long, especially not a year. I recommend going back to your doctor and tell him that the drops are not helping and that halos are getting worse. You also might want to get a 2nd opinion should your first doctor not help, especially if your doctor wasn't/isn't using the latest procedures. BTW, I got lasik probably 6 or so years ago and I'm already back on glasses.
I can chime in with LASIK complications, though not your's. It's been about 14 months since I had LASIK done. My vision is great. And my eyes burn all the time. I went through about 8 months of every type of eyedrop-drug treatment they could think of, but nothing worked longterm. Now I'm going to a different doctor for vision therapy, trying to correct an underlying eye muscle problem that may or may not have been "brought to the surface" by LASIK. The hope is that once this problem is fixed (if it can be fixed), the burning will go away. But I don't know. At this point, I'm prepared to go the rest of my life with moderate burning in my eyes... I figure if they haven't figured it out in this long, it's incredibly rare and they probably won't. (I went to TLC Vision...and my surgery was done by the same guy that did Tiger Woods)
Stories like this have really turned me against getting Lasik. Heck, the idea of contact lenses freaks me out too, to be honest. I guess I'll be a glasses man for the foreseeable future.
I'm in my late 40's and had Lasik done about 10 years ago or so. My night vision is really poor and have very dry eyes now (they were dry before, but much worse now). The halos around lights don't bother me as much now, it's just over all night vision in general. To make matters worse, I've had cataracts in each eye that I've had surgery for the past 5 or 6 years. Had i know that was going to happen I wouldn't have had the lasik done because the lenses put in for the cataracts would have taken care of the vision problems. If I knew what I knew now I would not have had the surgery done.
I had mine done 6 years ago when I was in my 20's. I have no issues so far except they couldn't fix my slight astigmatism. Still, it's one of the best thing's I've done for myself. They say that it's better to do with when you're in your twenties. Teens are too young and the older you get the harder it is for your lens to heal.
I wore contact lenses for decades, getting them back when it was pretty unusual and they were made of glass. Because they were hard contacts, after many years, I had to quit wearing them for several weeks due to my corneas not being the right shape. Hard contacts can keep your corneas a certain shape, even when time would have naturally caused them to change. After several weeks, my eyes adjusted to what was considered normal. During all those years, except for that one period, I had 20/20 corrected vision. For me, the hassle was well worth it. I tried soft lenses a couple of times and could never get used to getting them in and out. Today? I developed cataracts and had cataract surgery here in Austin. I had never had Lasik surgery or any of those alternatives. Cataract surgery literally replaces the lens of your eye. They cut a slice along one edge, slip out your messed up lens, slide in an artificial one, and there you go. I was in a hospital for day surgery, wore an eye patch for a day or so, and my result was amazing. 20/15 in one eye and 20/25 in the other. With both eyes I actually see slightly better than 20/20. I made me wonder a bit why people don't have that done instead of Lasik, but I'm sure there are good reasons for it. Now that I've put everyone to sleep... edit: never had any dryness issues or anything like that.
Got mine done at Lasik Plus here in Austin about 2.5 years ago. After the initial period of numerous drops a day, everything has been fine.
I had customvue waverfront done last March. The only issue I have had is dry eyes with some halos at night only if my eyes are strained or pupils dilated from too much caffeine late at night while studying. I have found that my eyes have not been dry as often and feel a lot better ever since I quit smoking about 6 months ago.
i am getting Lasik done on the 26th at Baylor vision here in houston. I am scared. I will let yall know.
I had LASIK about 2 years ago and I get really bad glare from oncoming traffic at night. My night vision also decreased, which is why I recently installed HID's on my car. The glare isn't as bad as it was the first six months though.
BaylorVision is known for fixing all the screwups around town, so you're in good hands. OP, you should go to BaylorVision and have them check you out.
oh ok. I was recommended there by one of my primary care doctors. she said all her coworkers got it done there and love it. This is the Dr. that's doing mine. http://www.baylorvision.org/correction/meet-koch.html
Well, it was pretty weird. I was told that I would be sedated enough not to remember the operation later, but not enough to put me out, they needing me awake to move my eye (one eye per trip to hospital). When I told the Doc after the first operation that I enjoyed his Procal Harum (he played A Whiter Shade of Pale), the guy was astonished. Apparently, I have a very high tolerance. I can't imagine why. For my other eye, it played out like he said. You don't feel anything. What is weird is that the stuff they do produces amazing colors and effects, and you can sorta see them doing strange things while not feeling what they are doing. It was weirder than I described, but not difficult to go through. My surgeon was a young doctor up on the latest techniques and technology. He's in Austin and I can't say enough good things about him. Very friendly and brilliant. I have yet to get jaded about how great it is to wake up and see perfectly. No blind stumbling around until I get my contacts in or finding my glasses with the coke bottle lenses. It's simply amazing. I just need glasses for "middle-aged, can't see up close" typical bull ****.
