I'm 25 yrs. I'm having myopia -4.0 and astigmatism -5.50 and my eye power became stable over two yrs. My corneal thickness is 512 microns. Am I eligible for LASIK?
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September 28, 2016
Answer: My corneal thickness is 512 microns. Am I eligible for LASIK?
It depends on your vision in the eye. Some people are able to see 20/20 even with -0.50 myopia in that eye. With additional surgery there's always a risk, if you're already seeing well out of that eye I may recommend leaving it like that since the myopia will actually help you with reading once...
Stability is an important thing to establish prior to doing refractive surgery. This depends on a number of factors including your age, your refraction, and other associated findings. For the FDA trials, a change of less than 0.50 diopters over the course of a year was considered...
You should use preservative free tears every hour for a month after any type of refractive surgery as this helps the healing and visual recoverypreop and months postop you can get away with preserved tears as they are cheaper and you won't be using them so often
