Optical Zone for 8.5mm Pupil

There are many reasons why you might have night symptoms post-LASIK: they maybe should have increased your zones to cover your scotopic (night-time-sized) pupil all flap procedures like LASIK produce some night glare, as there is back-scatter across the interface between your flap and the bed of your cornea, as it's in a 2-piece sandwich configuration forever even if they retreat you with a wider zone, the blend zone may go past your LASIK flap, which would prevent... more

Unfortunately there is no easy answer. Halos are much less frequent with newer, custom treatments, but can still occur. Some patients who have never had laser vision correction suffer from halos. Pupil size may be a factor. Consider an enhancement in only 1 eye to see if improvement occurs.

A common cause of night glare and haloes is a lower order aberration or prescription still left in the eye. An enhancement may help these symptoms if you have a residual prescription.  One can try a PreVue lens with the VISX laser to determine whether than enhancement might help these issues.  This may enable you to feel more comfortable going ahead with an enhancement.  You also might want to consider treating one eye.  Speak with your eyeMD about this possibility... more