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Even so called 'happy 20/20' patients can be harbor present/future complications
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| Dr. Lee Nordan, a refractive surgeon had this to say about patients who
are pleased with their refractive surgery outcomes:
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Lee Nordan on happy refractive surgery patients;
http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Artic...505_nordan.html
"He again posed the question that I and many others have been asking
for 15 years: Why are we still measuring the results of refractive
surgery with a Snellen chart and then resorting to descriptive phrases
such as "patients are happy"? Happy usually means that the
patient's visual function is poorer than desired, but he isn't
complaining ... today."
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Now we know that LASIK does several types of permanent damage to the
eye:
- LASIK surgery results in corneal nerve damage
- LASIK weakens the cornea to only 2.4% of the
strength of a normal cornea
- LASIK induces permanent distortions in the cornea
that cannot be fixed by glasses
Sadly, post-refractive surgery patients can develop problems from their
surguries years later. About 40% of patients who had RK have a collapse
and flattening of the front portion of their eye. This makes them very
hyperopic. Not a pleasant prospect when combined with the effects of
aging.
Remember people were very happy smoking until the damage began to take
its toll years later. Refractive surgery damages every eye. The
industry and surgeons know this but they sell refractive surgery to
patients anyway - even the bad candidates sometimes. There is no
oversight body governing these practices. The FDA has really dropped
the ball.
Deceiving patients is wrong. By telling stories about bad refractive
outcomes to as many people as possible, and spreading the word through
the media, the workplace, church -perpaps with a website... damaged
patients can educate prospective refractive surgery candidates so that
they are less likely to be deceived.
My goal is to prevent patients with multiple risk factors for a poor
outcome, from having refractive surgery. Fellow damaged patients,
please join me in this worthy goal and speak out about your poor
refractive surgery outcomes!
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| serebel 2005-11-20, 1:01 am |
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How many times is this crap gonna be regurgitated? This is classic
Hanson spam. Even the loons at SE would say, "enough already"!
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| Eye, so your saying the long term effects of lasik is starting to
become appearent like it was with RK? I have done a search on google
and the concensus is that no one knows what will happen 20 years from
now to lasik'ed eyes. You are correct that some are unhappy even with
20/20 because they still have visual quality issues, especially at
night. From my research, about 90% are happy, 10% arent.
I still have a question for you eye, how well do you see now? 20/30?
What was your pescription before lasik and were you corrected to 20/15
with glasses? How large are your dilated pupils and how large a zone
did you get lasered?
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| Hello Eye,
I still have a question for you eye, how well do you see now? 20/30?
What was your pescription before lasik and were you corrected to 20/15
with glasses? How large are your dilated pupils and how large a zone
did you get lasered? Your info will help us be aware of the risks and
your experience
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| serebel 2005-11-22, 1:02 am |
| Seems like "eye" is not going to answer your question. You sound like
an idiot for repeating it all the time.
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