It sounds like everyone is on the same page. At 3-6 months postop you
will realize the actual result of the surgery. In the interim, enjoy
your near vision and the overall improvement.

Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
Patient Advocacy Surgeon Certification

"Consider and Choose With Confidence"

Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org

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http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org

I am not a doctor.

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"Glenn - USAEyes.org" ha scritto

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Glenn, you were right, this is exactly what my surgeon said after the visit
i had one hour ago.


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Yes, he told about an overcorrection into myopia...
He also said that right now my sight is unbalanced...considering that the
surgery involved only one eye...

I didn't have an substantial improvement after the last time i
wrote...excellent near vision....poor distance vision...i hope it will get
better soon...but i also know i have to be patient, just 17 days from the
surgery have passed...

The second surgery on my other eye has been planned for the 11th of
december.
I will keep you updated about my experience.


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So...from the 4th of december i will resume the use of Vitamin C...
Thanks a lot...
Regards.

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:58:00 +0100, "deftoned" <askme[at]about.it> wrote:

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"Glenn - USAEyes.org" ha scritto

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Thank you very much Glenn, as far as i understand there are no particular
limitations after having refractive surgery...
The same precautions to be adopted as usual...

Thanks again,
regards.

We have a detailed article about Lasik and tanning booths at
http://www.usaeyes.org/faq/subjects/...ooth_lasik.htm


Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
Patient Advocacy Surgeon Certification

"Consider and Choose With Confidence"

Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org

http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org

I am not a doctor.

Copyright 2006
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"Glenn - USAEyes.org"

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De nada!
Thank you for your quick reply...


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I hope it will do...i know i have to be patient...but it's uncomfortable,
expecially when i drive...and i have to admit that if i had a bilateral
surgery...i don't know if i would be able to drive...
Now what is helping me is the right eye, with the old and usual pair of
glasses...
I hope that at the time of the surgery on the right eye, the left eye will
have acceptable farsightedness...


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I didn't think about that...my ignorance...i will ask the doctor about that
this thursday...



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Ok, thank you very much for that....i think i will stop tomorrow assuming
Vitamin C...and i will take it again one week before the surgery on the
second eye...


Another thing...
I'm into sunbathing...not so much, but i have to admit i like to get some
tan...
I chose this period of the year for having the surgery even for not having
restrictions during my holidays...but...what about solarium and UV?
I don't go there very often...i think it is a good idea to avoid it...at
least in the beginning...
Are there any precautions to be taken?
Avoid solarium at all...or i can go there in a couple of months....wearing
in addition some eye protection?
If it is not recommended, no problem to wait for the next summer for getitng
some tan...

Thanks again,
bye.

Thank you for the detailed information about your experience.

Before surgery you were significantly hyperopic (farsighted,
longsighted) with astigmatism. It is common after surgery for
hyperopic correction to regress back toward the original refractive
error a small amount. To accommodate this expected regression, many
surgeons will overcorrect the patient from hyperopia into myopia
(nearsighted, shortsighted) vision. As the eye heals, the myopia will
decrease.

A small overcorrection into myopia would explain why you have
excellent near vision with slightly poor distance vision.

The study regarding vitamin C to reduce the probability of corneal
haze after laser eye surgery is by Stojanovic et al, published in the
Journal of Refractive Surgery, 2003 May-Jun;19(3):338-43. In the study
the patients used 500mg of vitamin C twice a day for one week before
surgery plus two weeks after surgery with the use of 100% UVA and UVB
blocking sun glasses.

The study does not make any recommendations about use of vitamin C
after the two weeks.

Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
Patient Advocacy Surgeon Certification

"Consider and Choose With Confidence"

Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org

http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org

I am not a doctor.

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Hi all,
this is my first post after lurking a lot in the last 2 weeks.
First of all, i apologize for my english, i hope my post will be clear.

I had a LASEK surgery on my right eye almost two weeks ago (13th november),
in a medical clinic in my city, Ravenna, Italy.
My surgeon suggested not a bilateral surgery, but having precautionally a
single eye surgery..
I have an hypermetric astigmatism of 2,25 dyoptries (sorry for wrong
spelling) in the left eye, and 2,50 in the right one.
We started with the left one...
The day of the surgery i worked anyway, not spending too much time in front
of my pc and in the yard (i am a safety engineer in a company specialized in
the construction of offshore platforms)...
I had the surgery in the evening, at 8 pm.
Everything was ok, except for the fact i fainted 5 minutes before the
surgery (i know, i am a weak person...i was too nervous...)...
The onky thing that in my opinion went wrong was the fact i moved my eye a
little bit during the laser ablation, but the eye tracking system should
have minimized this effect...the surgeon told me that it was not a problem..
For 10 days i didn't go out of my house...and wore sunglasses, even
inside...in the first days...
No pain, just a lot of tears in the first two hours...
The only thing that bothered me was the contact lense used as a
bandage...and the use of drops, but it was a matter of a couple of days...to
get used with this stuff, maybe because i had never used contact lenses and
drops before in my life...

I also got 1000 mg of Vitamin C, starting from 3 days prior the surgery...i
didn't know about that...i got this suggestion from this newsgroup...i have
not talked about that to the surgeon...it will be interesting to know his
opinion about that...
Is it recommended to go on with vitamn C even after those two weeks after
the surgery or should i stop?

After one week i saw the surgeon again (while i see the first medical check
is carried out the day after in most cases)...and he removed the lense from
my eye.
He said my eye is healing well...he told me to not rub the eye, to be
carefull at dust, foreign bodies..and to go on with drops...the next
thursday i will have a second check...to see the actual progress..

What to say, no pain, everything ok with my eye, but my sight?
I have to admit, i am astonished about how good i can see near objects, i
can read and see well as i never did before in my life...the same if i wore
glasses...
But at distance...i have still some problems..
I realize i am at an early stage but...at distance the objects are not so
clear...i'm experiencing some ghisting...i hope it will fade away...and that
is just a matter of time...

In the last week i resumed some physical activities,...i read somewhere to
avoid them at all for one month...but...i am too active...i don't go to the
gym for my usual fitness...but some pshysical exercise (push-ups..and so
on...some weight lifting...)...i have to admit i am carrying out them at the
moment...3 times per week..
I hope these are not compromising the healing process...during this physical
activities i keep my eyes closed without stressing any face or eye
muscle...anyway...

I have modified my glasses...putting a neautral lense on the left side...and
putting some scotch on the lens when i am in front of my pc...i don't want
the eye involved in the surgery to see the screen....

My expereince so far, summaryzing is...no pain at all, just some bother
because of the lense and drops...but nothing serious...
Great improvements in seeing near objects...great for
reading...writing...writing sms...and so on...
Negative side is the sight at distance....some halos...ghosting....i realize
i see the objects bigger at distance...but the contours are not clearly
defined...this is the main issue...

The surgery on the right eye is planned for the 11th of december...it
doesn't scare me too much...considering i have the experience on the left
eye...

I will keep you updated...many thanks in advance for any suggestion,
comment...

Cheers.