Monday, July 27, 2009

Lasic Eye Surgery - Warning, Read This Article First?

By Evgania Mehler

If you can't read what's in front of your face, or you can't see anything more than a foot away from you, you might be considering Lasic Eye Surgery to correct the problem. That would be a mistake. Don't fumble around looking for your glasses. Read this article to find our how to improve your eyesight without surgery.

A procedure that permanently changes the clear covering of the front of the eye, called the cornea, is Lasik surgery. Medical term is Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis. This popular surgery promises miracles, like having 20/20 vision afterward. If this sounds too good to be true, it's because it is. 95% of people are satisfied with the surgery. That is according to the industry, not the patients.

After Lasic Eye Surgery you may find that you have poorer night vision, double vision, halos or glare. Also you may find that you no longer can see all the lines on a vision chart and neither glasses, contacts or additional surgery can correct it. Some people find they need additional surgery and it's not possible. They still may need glasses or contacts. These risks are listed on the F.D.A.'s website.

Lasic Eye Surgery is still relatively new and it's safety and effectiveness is not known yet. After surgery you can develop dry eye syndrome which is uncomfortable, can reduce visual quality and may be permanent. Farsighted people may see an improvement at first, but that may diminish with age. And the results for people with large refractive errors is not so good.

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.

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