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is it normal to have good to bad vision after PRK in 2 days?

November 17, 2018
Asked By:aaditya1001 in Chicago, IL

I got PRK a couple of days back. Today my optometrist checked for vision and noticed an improvement from -2.5 to 0.25. Opthalmologist mentioned that epithelium in one eye is healed and the other eye is healing. I had great vision all day until I slept for few hours in the evening and suddenly my vision became blurry. Is this normal?

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