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LASIK surgery is fascinating, quick, and effective. It can be considered a work of art. Like anything else though, there are pros and cons. It’s been my experience that the pros far outweigh the cons. I think there are a lot of benefits. These are usually realized once the mysteries have been unveiled!

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LASIK hazards are coming into focus. FDA records show that six months after the surgery, up to 28 percent of patients complained of eye dryness, up to 16 percent had blurry vision and up to 18 percent had difficulty driving at night. “I traded in my glasses for permanent head pain, eye pain and these things” — special goggles for dry eyes.

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A 40 year old male went for a LASIK consultation and was told that he would be a great candidate for the procedure. He had complained prior to surgery that he had very dry eyes and often woke up with painful eyes, but the surgeon told him that he would still do well with the procedure.

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If you wear glasses or contacts then you have probably wondered what it would be like to see clearly on your own. You have probably also heard of Lasik surgery. Angie Henry is checking in for surgery. Surgery that will rid her of the glasses she has been wearing since the fourth grade. Henry takes the prescribed Valium and waits for her nerves to settle.

Angie’s first led back to a prep room. Once her eye area is disinfected, Henry enters the operating room to meet Dr. William Wiley.

Dr. William Wiley asks Angie if she can see the wall clock without her glass and without squinting; her reply is ‘No’.

With Henry in position, Dr. Wiley pops in a couple numbing drops and gets to work on her right eye. After the flap is cut in Angie’s other eye as well, Dr. Wiley begins correcting her sight.

The prescription is mapped out with extreme precision days before surgery with a computer and then transferred directly into the interlace machine. The laser is done in 30 seconds.

The procedure is repeated on Angie’s other eye. After a total of about 15 minutes, Angie is sitting up and checking out that wall clock once again.

Dr. William Wiley asked Angie to read the clock again, her reply this time, ‘Yes, it is 6:35′.

“I didn’t feel anything. I could just hear it! It was kind of moving around and it was over! It was not bad at all.”

After a few last minute instructions, Angie and her husband go home.

Dr. Wiley says the average patient pays between 1 and 2 thousand dollars per eye. And almost anyone can have it done as long as you have a stable prescription and a corneas that are thick enough to withstand the laser.

“Once you get Lasik, your sight is set for life.”

Dr. Wiley says there is a five-percent chance that some patients may need touch up surgery if they don’t heal as they’d hoped. With age, Lasik patients may eventually need reading glasses.

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THOUSANDS of patients having laser eye surgery are at risk of catching MRSA in the wound, ex­perts said yesterday.

It has been discovered that some who have received the treatment have gone on to suffer a superbug infection in their eye.

Doctors are particularly worried because none of the affected patients was treated in hospitals where the bacteria was rife.

Instead, they may have contracted MRSA from their communities, in what is becoming a growing problem in both America and the UK.

According to experts in the US, 12 patients who underwent laser eye surgery subsequently developed MRSA.
All had been treated in private clinics which are supposed to be so sterile that MRSA cannot survive.

In one case, a male nurse who had a treatment called Lasik in both eyes had almost perfect vision after his operation.

But within two weeks, his left eye had developed an infection that grew worse until his vision was only 20/400 – which meant he was blind in that eye.

It turned out he had been struck down with MRSA, and even after treatment his vision was still left at 20/200, which is severely impaired.

According to a report in the American Journal of Ophthal­mology, patients should be warned that there is a risk of suffering an eye infection – known as MRSA keratitis – after the procedure.

Dr Eric D Donnenfeld, who led the study, said: “MRSA eye infection is a potentially serious complication following refractive surgery.

“Surgeons should now be vig­ilant for community-acquired MRSA keratitis.

“All patients should be in­formed of the risk factors and warning signs of infectious keratitis, and need to be advised to seek medical attention immediately if they develop signs or symptoms.

“A high degree of suspicion, coupled with prompt and appropriate treatment, may result in improved visual recovery.”

Around 100,000 people in Britain had corrective laser sur­gery last year – three times the number in 1996.

There are now almost 100 clinics offering the treatment across the country as people shun the expense and hassle of contact lenses and glasses.

Source: Daily Express 

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