(All photos for this entry are posted here)
Friday afternoon I had my right eye touched up with Wavefront LASIK. I had previously had both eyes done last Oct. While my left eye was better than 20/20, my right eye was slightly worse. My vision was fine, but I’m a perfectionist. I wanted a touchup on the right eye to match them up. I had it done at the same place (Custom Laser Center) and by the same doc (Zdenek). Both are great. This time was a bit different than last. Because I had already had a flap cut for the first surgery, they didn’t have to suction my eyeball and re-slice. The doc just numbed my eye and used a magnifier and a thin tool to reopen the flap. He said his record is 7 years for reopening the flap, but he was going to be doing one this weekend that was 10 years. Interesting to know that just the surface heals together, rather than the whole slice. After that they put me under the machine, cleaned up the surface (if they leave cells in there they can start to grow and mess up the correction), and zapped away.
Vicodin + valium and I slept from 4pm to 8am. So far everything seems pretty good. I still have the standard light bleeding (think over exposed picture), but that goes away in a little bit. On paper it was a minor change, but my vision seems much better (keep in mind it wasn’t bad before). I especially notice the change at night. My night vision is much better than it was. In fact, I think it is quite close to my night vision before LASIK, which was extremely good. Probably thanks to my 8mm pupils. I’m not sure if the change is just the update on the prescription, or if they did a wider spread (normally 6mm, blended out to 10ish). I’ll have to ask at my next appointment.
I have a DVD of the close up view on my eye during the surgery. If anyone is morbidly interested I will encode it down to a web viewable size and post it.
How is the vision in the right eye now? Sure post the video.
Right eye is good, night vision is still great on it. I talked to the Dr about it, they think the night vision in my left eye is being slightly blurred by astigmatism. So, we are going to wait a few months, then look into doing a small update on the left eye.
I will try to rip the video down to a web downloadable size and post it.
I had wavefront lasik about 2 weeks ago. My I would say my right eye is virtually perfect, my left has been experiencing some ghosting or double vision. It’s so minor but i do notice it once in a while mainly when I am looking at text that is white on a darker background. I’m not even sure if it can be corrected or if I should even attempt it since my vision is 20/15 with both eyes and slightly less than 20/15 in my left by itself. The ghosting just sort of softens things up a bit when it’s present. The doctor says ghosting is normal this early. I have an appointment at th e end of the month and I’ll know more then if it’s stabilizing. I have a suspicion that some of it may not go away. I know I’m being hypercritical and going through an adjustment phase.
I didn’t have any double vision, but I did have something that I call ghosting – basically all bright colors (mostly whites) are ‘over exposed’ and bleed into other colors a little bit. That was really strong for the first few days for me, but was mostly gone after a couple weeks, and completely gone after a month.
I completely understand the hypercritical part. I am the same way. But I can tell you that your eyes do change over time, mine shifted a little bit back and forth for the first three months. If the eye is still bothering you after a month I would get the doc to look into it though.
I had LASIK about a month ago and I am very unhappy with the result. Both eyes are foggy and blurry all the time like looking through a frosted window. My left eye is painfully dry all the time now too.
I really hope there is something they can do about this. Vision is 20/40 to 20/50 when checked, and they change during the course of the day for the worse.
I wish I had not done this. Gone is the crystal clear vision that I had before – now everything is soft around the edges. For those of you who use Photoshop, imagine a .5 pixel blur and a drop shadow on everything. That is what I see now.
Hi GMarie,
I’m sorry to hear about your experience, I hope they can fix that for you.
Hi Chris,
Quick Q. I just got LASIK a couple of weeks ago. The results are good but I have -0.5 on my right eye and although I can see quite well, it just makes me insane.
Could you tell me how much residual prescription did you have prior to your touch up? Do you think is worth to get a touch up to correct -0.5?? Also, does a touch up increase your risk of flap problems in the future?
Thanks much!
Hi Patricia,
I had about 0.5 as well, and found the touch up worth it. However, you might want to wait a month or two before getting it touched up – I found my eyes took about that long to even out.
Regarding the flap, they will just be reopening the same slice. I believe the risk is that while it heals there is a small risk of infection. Use the drops they give you, and no rubbing. I found my recovery for the touch-up was quicker than the initial surgery.