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This would depend on whether you are -7.50 (myopia or being near-sighted) or +7.50 (hyperopia or called far-sighted). LASIK can treat myopia up to about -15.00 safely in patients with thick enough corneas. If your corneas are thicker than 550 µm and you are otherwise healthy a -7.50 treatment is generally no problem at all. If you have +7.50 of hyperopia (this means you are far sighted), LASIK is probably not an ideal treatment for you. This would be a case where ICL may be the better choice. ICL is a treatment where the Intralase laser would be used to create a small incision on the cornea and a permanent contact lens is inserted, eliminating the need for contacts and glasses.
Yes, you may have LASIK for myopia of minus 7.5, BUT you have to make sure that your cornea is thick. There is also a non flap option for correcting minus 7.5 called PRK. However, in your post you wrote + 7.5 which means you actually have farsightedness or hyperopia which is very different than myopia or nearsightedness. If, indeed, that is the case, than your options at your age are limited to either doing nothing or doing a clear lens exchange and replacing your natural crystalline lens with an implant that is an entirely different and much more serious procedure than LASIK or PRK. Good luck, you only have 2 eyes!
If the goggles were displaced and your eye is dry, blurriness can ensure. When in doubt or if your symptoms persist, seek the care of an eye care professional to examine your eyes. Many doctors close to you would still be willing to help you!
The question asked is very appropriate and resonates with me very well. I had Laser Vision Correction performed in 1995, when I was 38. As an Ophthalmologist, knowing full well what happens to our ability to read in our 40's, I opted for my dominant right eye to be treated 100%(giving me 20/20...
I personally perform CATz Lasik as it is the most advanced form of Lasik available. If you are treated with a CATz laser your vision will reach 20/20 - 20/15 the next day. If you are treated with a standard Lasik laser or a SMILE laser, it may take a few months for the full results to...
It depends on the type of lens, how you wear it, the fit, if you wear it overnight, etc so there are no hard rules, only very loose guidelines the real test if your corneal topography must be normal and unwarped before surgery sometimes this takes no time at all, sometime it takes...
It may be possible to do LASIK after PRK, but it is much more common to enhance the PRK procedure with additional PRK. Part of that decision would have to do with why your husband had PRK instead of LASIK to begin with. If it was because of thin corneas, then he...
As I read your question, I see two areas of discussion I would like to a address. First, 63 is not too old to have Laser Vision Correction(Lasik or PRK) provided your eyes are otherwise healthy and don't show early signs of cataract, glaucoma or other eye problem. If that is the case, and you...
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