Lasic Eye Surgery - Warning, Read This Article First?

Are you tired of fumbling around in the morning to find your glasses so you can see? Or not being able to see the newspaper without holding it at arms length, or squinting to see objects at a distance. The miracle answer is Lasic Eye Surgery, right? WRONG!! This article will help you make an informed decision about how to correct your vision.

95% of people who have Lasik surgery (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis) are totally satisfied, according to the industry. The patients probably don’t agree. This much advertised surgery claims 20/20 vision afterward, by permanently changing the shape of the cornea (the clear covering in front of the eye). Kind of like a miracle and we all know miracles all come with a price tag.

The F.D.A’s website lists some of the risks of Lasik surgery. They are: debilitating visual symptoms such as glare, halos, double vision or having worse night vision than you did before the surgery. Others are loss of vision lines on a vision chart that can’t be corrected with glasses, contacts or additional surgery. If you need additional treatment, that may not be possible and you’ll still need glasses or contacts.

You may develop severe dry eye syndrome which is not only uncomfortable but can reduce visual quality, and the condition may be permanent. Results are not as good for patients with large refractive errors. For patients who are farsighted, improvements may diminish with age, and last but not least, the long term safety and effectiveness of Lasic Eye surgery is not known, because it is still a relatively new procedure.

The following was reported in the New York Times, March, 2008. Some people have found that if they wear contacts for general vision and eyeglasses for reading, that they lose that option after surgery. It’s like reading through contact lenses and you can’t take them out because they’re not there.

Lasic eye Surgery can overcorrect or undercorrect your visual problem. This leaves 5 to 10% of patients who need to have their vision fine-tuned after surgery. The F.D.A. received 140 negative reports relating to Lasic between 1998 and 2006. They suspected many more were not reported. They put together a task force in 2006 to design a clinical trial to explore it after deciding that too few well designed studies had been done.

Lasic Eye Surgery, is the must read article to find out more about the contradictions.

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