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Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by M0r13n »

Euphorbium wrote: post #9
BlackjackCF wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I never heard about the supplementation of N-acetyl-cysteine with regards to the treatment of dry eye disease (DED). Could you elaborate on your experiences with the supplementation of NAD? I am unable to find any real useful information in the web

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by graboid »

Did anyone here do the eye surgery where they make a cut and slide in a permanent contact lens? My eyes are too bad for lasering, but this method would apparently still work. The doc tried to sell it to me as the better method irrespective of how bad your eyes are, since it is reversible (you can remove the lens).

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by mgrandl »

ekianjo wrote: post #3
julienreszka wrote: post #2

I 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?

There is no way to prove it, but I am pretty sure I developed Keratoconus due to Lasik.

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by mrks_hy »

ImHereToVote wrote: post #10

Not 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.

Interesting. From what to what? How many dpt +-, and how long did you stay there before starting your regimen?

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by julienreszka »

ekianjo wrote: post #3
julienreszka wrote: post #2

I 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?

There was a FDA document draft released in 2022, page 14 has examples, page 17 has illustrated examples https://www.fda.gov/media/160239/download

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by julienreszka »

epups wrote: post #6
julienreszka wrote: post #2

I 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/

I'm not denying that that's what the webpage says but the page says also it's from 2015 so almost a decade old. We have more data now.

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by wolfi1 »

graboid wrote: post #12

Did anyone here do the eye surgery where they make a cut and slide in a permanent contact lens? My eyes are too bad for lasering, but this method would apparently still work. The doc tried to sell it to me as the better method irrespective of how bad your eyes are, since it is reversible (you can remove the lens).

a colleague of mine had one, for one eye he needed minor surgical after-treatment but since then he is content with the result

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by aatd86 »

ImHereToVote wrote: post #10

Not 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.

Yeah bilberry extract has been studied in Asia since they had an increasingly myopic population. Seems that it works in relaxing the ciliary muscle spasms caused by close up vision. (screen time).

I've also tried red light therapy for the eyes. It seems to work a little too but this is more subjective for me.

I think the best thing would be to live somewhere where its sunny all the time and be outside for the first rays of sunlight.

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by ImHereToVote »

mrks_hy wrote: post #14
ImHereToVote wrote: post #10

Not 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.

Interesting. From what to what? How many dpt +-, and how long did you stay there before starting your regimen?

Sorry. Not super scientific. My vision started to degrade after I had diagnosed retinal detachment. My vision didn't degrade yet when I was diagnosed. I was just told to go to the doctor if my symptoms of flashing lights returned. I just lazily noticed that I couldn't read labels far away. After changing my lifestyle I don't have any issues with my vision. Feels like when I was a kid.

Re: Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Post by [deleted] »

julienreszka wrote: post #16
epups wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's actually only about 1% that do: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302464/

I'm not denying that that's what the webpage says but the page says also it's from 2015 so almost a decade old. We have more data now.

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