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TransPRK Eye Surgery is Well Worth It - Trois-rivières, QC

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My vision is now 5% better than a perfect natural...

WORTH IT$2,859
My vision is now 5% better than a perfect natural human eye. I can see extremely well in the day. I've lost a bit of my night vision and I have a bit more halos at night, but not enough to annoy me for both of these negative side effects. TransPRK eye surgery is the best decision I've ever made in my life. TransPRK is better than Lasik, your Lasik doctor can perform it for you. TransPRK recovery is a living nightmare though and only for the strong willed. I paid a total of 3511$ CAD (Canadian dollars). 3600$CAD + 11$CAD (Pain drugs) -100$CAD (100 dollar Christmas rebate). The operation is a little scary.

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Dr. Francis Roy

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Thank you for sharing your PRK experience with us. Can you tell us what you found the most scary about the procedure? What make the recovery so challenging? Do you have any post-op tips to share with the community?

The most scary is that they give you an ativan pill and then only wait 7 minutes before operating on your eyes. The ativan wasn't working and it kicked in 20 minutes after the surgery. The recovery is out of this world difficult and I have high pain tolerance. I was allergic to the 2 contact lenses they put into my eyes (they put 2 contact lenses on your eyes for 72 hours after the operation since there is no corneal flap and your eyes would be exposed to the ambient air and this would burn) and it was 72 hours of hell. I almost wanted to kill myself because it felt like my eyes were on fire for 72 hours (pain at 2/10, but a sensation of fire at 10/10) until they removed those contact lenses. I was allergic to the plastic in the contact lenses. I had told them that I was allergic to contact lenses but they said it was impossible, they were wrong. Tip: do the operation in winter. Plan at least 16 days of rehabilitation, not 7. Forget going to work at day 8, this is impossible, would be barely possible on day 17. Best decision I've ever done though.
Can't get this in USA. Where can I get it on a Canada TransPRK on a 1050rs Amaris machine?
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