Yeah, it's interesting they didn't mention the prep work scrubbing away the skin of your eyes in any of the online documentation I found. The doctor also didn't talk about it during any of the various screening visits I had in the weeks leading up to the procedure. Those bums waited till the day of, when I'm sitting there in the pre-op room, then they told me about the scrubbing away of my eye-skin
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I've had eye surgery when I was about five. A neighbor kid thought I'd look better with a stick in my eye, so he pinned me and shoved one in. Trip to the ER, head clamp, eye wires, muscles in the eye immobilized with needles full of muscle relaxants, then lights out to dilate and pull the splinters from my eye. All I really remember is the restraints and the needles coming towards my eye, and the green light in the dark. But since then I've had BIG, big problems with anything coming near my eyes.
I had already decided laser surgery wasn't for me. You just told me how right I am.
Woah, head clamp? Yeah, that's much more hard-core than what I had. I'm sorry to have brought back some of those memories. You definitely want to pass on the current versions of laser eye surgery.
What surprises me is this. The laser they use shapes the lens by burning away specific parts of it. Why can't they just use that same laser to burn away the skin covering the lens? Why need to use the spinning brush of doom in a human's hands at all? That way there'd be no physical object (yeah, yeah, light is particle/waves, photons are mass/energy, whatever) touching the eye. Seems like it would be considerably less traumatic to me. Perhaps there's an issue with the skin growing back after it has been burned away vs. being scrubbed away.
I'm just glad I didn't take the LASIK route. Where PRK grinds away the skin with a brush, LASIK uses a blade and cuts around the bottom to make a flap out of the skin! YIKES! I've done careful grinding with a tool and careful cutting with a blade, grinding is much easier and less likely to seriously screw up my eye. :)
I'm glad it's over and I can see better now also. :)
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I, too, am very sensitive about my eyes. I can imagine scenarios where I would go through that, but they'd have to be pretty extreme.
I'm glad you found it worthwhile, though. Very glad. :)
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I've had eye surgery when I was about five. A neighbor kid thought I'd look better with a stick in my eye, so he pinned me and shoved one in. Trip to the ER, head clamp, eye wires, muscles in the eye immobilized with needles full of muscle relaxants, then lights out to dilate and pull the splinters from my eye. All I really remember is the restraints and the needles coming towards my eye, and the green light in the dark. But since then I've had BIG, big problems with anything coming near my eyes.
I had already decided laser surgery wasn't for me. You just told me how right I am.
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Woah, head clamp? Yeah, that's much more hard-core than what I had. I'm sorry to have brought back some of those memories. You definitely want to pass on the current versions of laser eye surgery.
What surprises me is this. The laser they use shapes the lens by burning away specific parts of it. Why can't they just use that same laser to burn away the skin covering the lens? Why need to use the spinning brush of doom in a human's hands at all? That way there'd be no physical object (yeah, yeah, light is particle/waves, photons are mass/energy, whatever) touching the eye. Seems like it would be considerably less traumatic to me. Perhaps there's an issue with the skin growing back after it has been burned away vs. being scrubbed away.
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I'm glad it's over and I can see better now also. :)
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