Is prk surgery detected easily?

You are not over corrected you are undercorrected and have residual myopiathis will NOT get better ever, you need an enhancement, but need to wait until you are stable (3-6 months postop)tell your friends to get LASEK not PRK, same improved safety compared to LASIK but quicker recovery than PRK...

They should have told you that recovery after PRK is very long, you should have gotten LASEK instead as it is as safe as PRK, they should have also told you 2 things:1. you will be initially farsighted from overcorrection to allow for regression, so you don't wind up undercorrected2. if you were...

You shouldn't have gotten a PRK in 2016, i did my last PRK 20 yrs ago, you should have gotten a LASEK with less pain and quicker healing. you didn't say what your age and original Rx is, however it sounds like you will need an enhancement, which should be free, but is a pain, the chance of...

50 year olds are certainly candidates for Lasik or PRK, if other things are appropriate. High corrections can be treated up to a certain level. Either the eyes will be adjusted for distance and you will wear reading glasses for close or you can have blended monovision.

Typically, you can not tell just by looking with a microscope that a person has had PRK. In most cases, you can't tell just by looking with a microscope that a person has had Lasik either. Testing with topography will reveal the microscopic curvature changes caused by PRK or Lasik.

Being patient after PRK is by far the hardest part. Unfortunately, PRK healing can be exasperatingly slow in some cases. Most people are seeing a "weak 20/20" after 6 weeks, but many others are behind that schedule. Your progress up to this point does not reflect on how you will eventually see....