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I always felt more self conscious wearing my...
I always felt more self conscious wearing my glasses and felt like I was hidden behind them, so I decided to be brave and go for laser eye surgery. I went to Optimax and was advised I could only have LASEK due to my corneas being on the thin side. I then went to Optical Express where they told me I could actually have the LASIK done and gave me a different reading from the tests that they do.. I feel a little silly as I opted to go with Optical Express and the iLASIK iDesign without asking for a second opinion but I was really scared of the pain from LASEK...
I went to the surgeon a month later only to be told that if I was to go ahead with the LASIK then there was a chance that between 6 months to 10 years my eyeball could collapse!! That was more terrifying than the pain from the other surgery so in the end I decided to just bite the bullet and have the LASEK done.
Silly me again, I had obviously not planned for this and my recovery was far far from what I had expected. I did not book enough time off work. I did not anticipate exactly how very painful it was for the first week (day 2 was excrutiating!). I did not take into account that I would not be able to see clearly for 6 weeks and therefore my Open University module did not go very well and I got very behind. I could not drive for at least 2 week. And finally it felt silly wearing sunglasses for the entire time over Christmas. I have had very dry eyes ever since the surgery and continue to put Systane eye drops in around 3-4 times a day.
I have been free from my glasses for nearly 2 years now, however I still find that my eyes are very sensitive to the light (outside, computers, overhead projectors and phones).. This is extremely irritating. I have been to many appointments with different people over the last 2 years trying to determine what the problem was. After 6 months, the surgeon gave me some steroid eye drops (Predforte I think?) which cleared it up for me.. However a following 6 months after that, the sensitivity was back.... The doctors put it down to tension headaches?? Definitely not that.
On another note, I have just finished a 3 month course of Doxycycline 100mg a day for an issue with my skin, and I have found that during this time, I was not sensitive to any lights... Iv now finished the course about 5 days ago and already the light sensitivity is back. I am going to ring the Opticians and see if they know the reasoning behind this and if there is anything they suggest.
Overall though it does feel fantastic to be able to wake up each morning and see clearly without having to put glasses on and I don't regret my choice to go ahead.
I went to the surgeon a month later only to be told that if I was to go ahead with the LASIK then there was a chance that between 6 months to 10 years my eyeball could collapse!! That was more terrifying than the pain from the other surgery so in the end I decided to just bite the bullet and have the LASEK done.
Silly me again, I had obviously not planned for this and my recovery was far far from what I had expected. I did not book enough time off work. I did not anticipate exactly how very painful it was for the first week (day 2 was excrutiating!). I did not take into account that I would not be able to see clearly for 6 weeks and therefore my Open University module did not go very well and I got very behind. I could not drive for at least 2 week. And finally it felt silly wearing sunglasses for the entire time over Christmas. I have had very dry eyes ever since the surgery and continue to put Systane eye drops in around 3-4 times a day.
I have been free from my glasses for nearly 2 years now, however I still find that my eyes are very sensitive to the light (outside, computers, overhead projectors and phones).. This is extremely irritating. I have been to many appointments with different people over the last 2 years trying to determine what the problem was. After 6 months, the surgeon gave me some steroid eye drops (Predforte I think?) which cleared it up for me.. However a following 6 months after that, the sensitivity was back.... The doctors put it down to tension headaches?? Definitely not that.
On another note, I have just finished a 3 month course of Doxycycline 100mg a day for an issue with my skin, and I have found that during this time, I was not sensitive to any lights... Iv now finished the course about 5 days ago and already the light sensitivity is back. I am going to ring the Opticians and see if they know the reasoning behind this and if there is anything they suggest.
Overall though it does feel fantastic to be able to wake up each morning and see clearly without having to put glasses on and I don't regret my choice to go ahead.
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Optical Express