Lasic Surgery may not be all that safe as we think

This is the first time, I have heard of side effects from lasic surgery. I know my grandmother had it done to have cateracts (don't know if I spelt that right)removed. She didn't have any problems afterwards. It's scarey that this could happen to people.

I have seen a few discussions about lasik recently in Mylot. I know my mother-in-law had lasik surgery done some time last year and she lost total eyesight in one of her eyes. She tried to correct her vision and lost total eyesight because of it. She was lederly though and I think that had alot to do with it. She was not able to care for it properly after having it done. She passed away a few months afterwards also, so we are not really sure what happened as to why her eyesight was gone one eye.

I read about that too. I had the Custom Vue Lasik myself 3 years ago and it's the best thing that I ever did for myself and I would do it again without a moments hesitation. There are risks in any surgery, but 95% is a pretty good percentage of success, I think. Custom Vue Lasik uses the same hardware as conventional Lasik but the excimer laser is guided by advanced software called Wavefront. In this procedure vision is measured by mapping the optical system using technology that is 25% more accurate than traditional methods. The map is so exact it is likened to a fingerprint. No two surgeries are alike, hence the name. Because of the precision it can be used to correct vision or to correct imperfections created by other laser procedures. Reportedly patients can expect 20/20 vision using Custom Vue Lasik with many people experiencing even better results. The need for a second procedure is less common (but if the microkeratome blade causes imperfections during the Custom Vue session, those imperfections would not be correctable until a later procedure). It's a little bit more refined and the outcome is supposed to have a higher % of success, so I don't know if this one was included in the study or not.

I can believe that. I worked for an optometrist for several years. We had a few patients that had it done. Several of the ones that had it done in the early stages had problems. I recently went back and got my eyes checked when I mentioned getting it done to him (my optometrist and former boss) he said he would not advise me to do it. There have been too many problems cropping up lately and a lot of times they have to do it again in a few years. I decided just to stick to my glasses and contact lens.

This may be very unfair for me to voice my opinion because my eye sight is reasonably good. I don't need glasses to do anything except reading or working on the computer. I will tell you this I will go blind totally before I would ever consider having laser surgery and this is why. My first husband had terrible eye sight. He had to wear glasses at all times except for when he slept and his glasses were thick as bottle glass. He was told they could do laser surgery so after we talked about it and me telling him to not do it he told me it was his choice and not mine and it was his eyes so true enough and I booked time off my job and I drove him to the hospital where the surgery was done. They did one eye at a time which meant we had to make two trips. The surgery only took a few short minutes. After having one eye done it was hard for him to focus because one eye was now working better than the other. They did his worse eye first and a couple months later we went back for the other eye to be done. It was amazing for the first three or four months. He still had to wear glasses but not nearly so thick and he was seeing twice as good as before. Things went totally to hell after about a year. He went blind in his worst eye and no word of a lie it looked like a green grape that went rotten. He had to have his eye removed and a glass eye put in after a few months later he went blind in the other eye as well but I don't know if he had to have it removed as well or not. If I was totally blind anyway well you have nothing to loose and everything to gain but otherwise no way. Just my opinion Carol.

I can certainly relate to fear of eye surgery. I had surgery on one eye when I was 5 yrs old and have been paranoid of anything coming near my eyes ever since. I have two friends who had the Lasik done and both of them had problems later on. One has started having trouble with his vision again. And the other developed night blindness from it. She gets the halo efect with oncoming lights so she can't drive after dark. I won't have it done either.

that would be awful guess when I have to hava catarcts removed will have it done the old way.

I'm with you. For now, it is not worth the risk. For now, glasses suit me just fine. Not that I could afford the surgery if I did want it. I assisted at an eye surgery once and it totally grossed me out.

Honey I agree with you Sweets! I would only have eye surgery if I needed it for cataracts or something...Never for the vanity of not wearing glasses! xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

It is worrying when you see statistics about things like this, I am not sure whether I would have the surgery or not as anything to do with eyes scares me anyway. But I know my dad and my hubbys cousin have both had laser surgery in the past year and as of up to now they have not had any problems from it. In fact they say their eyes are even better than before they had it done.