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My experience:

January 25, 1999:
Two days ago I was:
OD -11.75, -1.5
OS -12.00, -1.5

Yesterday I had lasik at TLC Manhattan with Dr. Fox…

Today I’m around 20/30 or so, and 20/20 if I douse my eyes with eye drops… the vision is there, just not the crispness. (I still have some surface irritation, so that’s clouding things a bit.)

But … I can see! Two days ago, I literally could not make out distinct objects beyond about 18 inches, today I walked around
Manhattan without glasses and could see street signs from blocks away…

This is way more than I expected… I had been expecting at least a week or so to go by before I felt comfortable driving, and while due to the post-op glare I’m not going to try night driving yet, I’m certainly fine to drive during the day. (Two days ago, sitting in the car without glasses I couldn’t see the steering wheel, much less the road.)

February 9, 1999:
My screen is back to 1024×768 and normal fonts, though it’s a bit blurry still. Significant ghosting at night—night driving is not pleasant on unfamiliar roads as signs are unreadable until 2-3 seconds away at 55mph.

Eye chart test says I’m 20/40 left, 20/80 right—but that fluctuates every day. I am using Bion Tears every hour, and everything clears up quite a bit for a few minutes after putting those in. My Dr says that the surface of my cornea is extremely dry and not smooth and that is causing the blurriness. I’d have to say he’s right, considering I can see nearly[20/20 for a few minutes after using eye drops. He says that as long as I keep using the drops for a few more weeks, the roughness will go away. My flaps were completely invisible by 1-week postop, with no wrinkles.

June 26, 1999:

Post-surgery:
OD plano, -0.50
OS plano, -1.00

Post-correction (same MD, 30 June 1999):
OD plano, 0
OS plano, 0

I’ve had serious problems with healing due to dry eye and my vision has been consistently cloudy. My co-manage eye doctor says my eyes are gunked up with sloughed-off epithelial cells. Dry-eye is made worse by my eyelids not closing all the way at night.

Although my eyes are technically zero sph/cyl, I get about 20/40 OD and 20/80 OS on the Snellen. Problems with photophobia since the June correction—I need to wear sunglasses outside even in very overcast weather.

At no time since the original procedure in January has my vision been better than 20/40 for more than a day or two.

The dry-eye is treated with lots of drops (celluvisc) during the day, and Refresh PM at night with eyes taped shut. I’ve had significant improvement in the past week or so since I’ve started taping my eyes shut at night, but still no better than 20/40 or so.

My night vision is worse than 20/100.

December 28, 2000:

I wear glasses again. Thin ones, granted, but wasn’t the point of LASIK to not have to wear glasses?

I think the technology still has a ways to go before it’s ready for primetime.
I still have absymal night vision. All bright point lights fill my entire field of vision with lines and stripes.

April 2001:If I could go back in time and undo my LASIK, I would.

June 2002:No change in my opinion.

March 2004:Still no change in my opinion.

January 2005:Ibid.

January 2006:Ibid.