Lasik Eye Surgery, Just had it done Options

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

I just had Lasik surgery on my eyes. I had pretty bad eyes. It's Friday night, and I had the surgery on Thursday at 11am. My eyes are still blurry. I'm pretty light sensitive too. I can't see as well as I could with my glasses, and the light thing is really bothering me. I hope it gets better. If it doesn't I'm going to have to get my money back, cause I'm definately not happy with it. Anyone else have it? or any advice for me?

[Outsider]

I had my eyes done 3 years ago. He did not freeze them enough... I FELT THE KNIFE ON BOTH EYES, when the flap is cut! Laser went ok, he had problems laying the flaps back down flat, tried twice on each eye. He appologized profusly. He gave me VERY VERY dark sunglasses and told me to sleep as much as possible for the next week.(I took a week off work). I had VERY high astigmatism and some nearsightedness. Checkup the next day showed almost 20/20 in both eyes. A couple of days later when the clear contacts came off, the healing realy started. My vision went to **** after about a week. Slowly though, it did get better. I am back to almost 20/20 now. I had very dry eyes when I got the operation and let me tell you, I now have an ENTIRE new definition of dry eyes. 3 years later, I still use drops when things get bad. I am finaly getting used to things being much brighter but on very bright days I have to wear sunglasses when out and about.

I wanted both eyes to have the same operation,ie: see far with both eyes and see close with both eyes. I think he changed that on me because now that things have settled down, my right eye sees great far but blurry up close and the left eye is the opposite. He told me that it was an option for older people to prevent reading glasses as you age. The only problem is he picked the WRONG eye for distance. It's not my dominant eye and I now get headaches ALL the time. I have had my eyes checked out elsewhere and they tell me that it could take my brain a few more years to adjust to the difference and rely on my other eye as the domminant one. The headaches are not nearly as bad as they were at the start, I can live with them now without tylenol.

Overall I would say that I am reasonably happy with the outcome. I was also told that about 75% of ALL who get this proceedure done end up wearing glasses again after about 5 years. I hope I am one of the lucky ones.