Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
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#2I was surprised to find out that the fail rate is still pretty high, about 10 percent regretting doing it
Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
#3I was surprised to find out that the fail rate is still pretty high, about 10 percent regretting doing it
what are the reasons to regret it?
Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
#4I was surprised to find out that the fail rate is still pretty high, about 10 percent regretting doing it
what are the reasons to regret it?
It can damage your eye If the surgeon takes out too much or too little tissue, and make vision worse (astigmatism.)
> LASIK has an excellent safety profile with a low complication rate. In fact, LASIK is one of the safest elective surgical procedures available today, with a complication rate estimated to be less than 1%.
Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
#5I was surprised to find out that the fail rate is still pretty high, about 10 percent regretting doing it
what are the reasons to regret it?
Some people have long term negative effects from LASIK like extremely dry eyes, halos, loss of night vision, etc. These effects vary in severity. A very, very, very small percentage of people who got LASIK had such severe side effects that they committed suicide.
Also LASIK isn’t always going to correct vision to 20/20. Some people end up close.
Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
#6I was surprised to find out that the fail rate is still pretty high, about 10 percent regretting doing it
No, it's actually only about 1% that do: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302464/
Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
#7I was surprised to find out that the fail rate is still pretty high, about 10 percent regretting doing it
what are the reasons to regret it?
Taran (ex LTT member) has an excellent video on it as he unfortunately experiences negative side effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDAXSbwhR0
Edit: I misremembered, he got PRK, but he does talk about consequences of both methods.
Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
what are the reasons to regret it?
Some people have long term negative effects from LASIK like extremely dry eyes, halos, loss of night vision, etc. These effects vary in severity. A very, very, very small percentage of people who got LASIK had such severe side effects that they committed suicide. Also LASIK isn’t always going to correct vision to 20/20. Some people end up close .
I had it, or a newer version of it. I had pain before , which I considered to be a migraine, triggered by bad vision in one eye. But the vision was very close to perfect, one clinic refused to do it. After the procedure, and some amount of healing time the vision was perfect, but the pain came back and became stronger. So I suffered strong migraine like pain for years. Untill last month somebody here recommended NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) supplement, I tried it and it worked within days. Turns out it was just dry eye. I did not make the connection, because eye drops did not help me, they seemed to make it worse. i was not missing in tears, but the eye lubricant which retains the tears on the surface, and multiple doctors missed it.
Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
#10Not super scientific, but eating dried blueberries everyday, looking into red a red light lamp every third day, and doing long distance look training made my eyesight 20/20 again. I have a feeling the red light lamp is the biggest effect. At least according to research it should be. Try it. You only have minutes and a daily blueberry cost to loose.