Love PRK, but wondering at what age I should have a refresh?

My vision has become stable and I repeated the surgery on my right eye only. As my eyes have aged, if I were to do both eyes, I could not read my phone without glasses. With only one eye corrected, I can manage at reading at many distances with combined vision.

If anyone is considering Monovision, which is to say, correcting only one eye for distance. I would strongly recommend testing this vision out ahead of time with contact lenses in both left and right eye. I was ready to have both eyes corrected but then realized that I could read nothing at arms length or closer and that this would be a big disability for me.

I am on the fourth day of my recovery post surgery today and yesterday was by far the most uncomfortable. The contact lens is very drying to my eye it stings and irritates like a contact lens that’s been left in the eye for many days, which it is. I used the numbing comfort drops as they advised me neither I nor they should remove the contact lines to clean and replace it. I was able to manage the day with lots of drops Systane PF preservative free drops, Benadryl, and Tylenol.

Now at the fourth day it’s not as bad as yesterday and I am starting to see more clearly through the eye that had the operation. It still stings a bit and I am definitely looking forward to getting this contact lens out.

Is it worth it? Absolutely. Just expect there’s going to be four or five days of discomfort and you may or may not want to be doing a lot of work during these days. When the surgery is done and healed my vision has never been better and so I would say it was well worth the cost and the irritation and pain.

Best of luck to you in your journey to better vision.

My vision has continued to worsen over time. Certainly not as bad as when I started, but I now have prescription glasses for driving. It just did not feel safe, difficult to read signs at a distance, and sometimes difficult to spot pedestrians jumping in front of my car (city driving). I'm 42 now, so I have been encouraged to wait a few years as my eyes adjust. When my vision stabilizes, I would love to have it done again, probably one last time.

5 years later and doing very well. I went in for a follow up visit because the vision in my left eye is not nearly as clear as before. I was initially 20/15 in both eyes, but now my left eye is at 20/20, but only able to read half of the characters at this level/size. What this means in the real world is I cannot read all the signs at night out of my left eye alone. Enhancement treatments are part of the fee, Dr. Hyver's staff have relayed that he will do the enhancement, but it's probably better to wait and see if it improves or gets worse first. I think I'll wait another year and see, but I am grateful that Dr. Hyver stands by his guarantee.