| Ragnar 2005-09-24, 2:38 pm |
| On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:40:17 -0400, "Barb" <Barb@AOL_nospam.com>
wrote:
>Mike R, You should abandon the idea of having refractive surgery
>IMMEDIATELY.
>You have HUGE pupils, and all forms of refractive surgery INDUCE distortions
>in
>your cornea called higher order aberrations. These visual distortions cannot
>be corrected
>with glasses. In patients with large pupils, their pupils open up so wide in
>dim light that
>they must look through a larger part of their cornea and see all those
>aberrations.
>
>People with tiny pupils look through a small dot in the center of their
>cornea and may
>not be affected by aberrations so much.
>
>Your corneal thickness is NOT very thick, your prescription in your left eye
>is high and
>you have a HUGE amount of astigmatism in your right eye.
>
>You are refractive surgery misery waiting to happen. I can speak from some
>experinence
>in this matter because my corneas were on the thin side, my prescription
>high like yours
>with astigmatism and my pupils large. My vision after refractive surgery is
>my daily waking
>nightmare. It is absolute trash.
>
>NO glasses or contacts have restored me to decent vision. I forgot to
>mention comfort. All
>LASER corneal surgeries FRY corneal nerves. This corneal nerve loss leads to
>dry eye which
>can be permanent.
>
>I know a young man in his early twenties who was perfectly normal and happy
>till he had refractive
>surgery. Now his eyes are so dry they won't open in the morning, and his
>vision is horrendous.
>Just getting by is a struggle for him. His eyes always hurt.
>
>The cornea was made to be a certain thickness to support the eye. The cornea
>does not regenerate.
>All corneal refractive surgery weakens and damages the cornea. Don't do this
>to your eyes!
>
>Get some contact lenses and appreciate the fact that you can be corrected to
>good clear vision and that
>your corneas were not trashed by some greedy surgeon.
>
>For your information there is a LASIK pimp on this site named Glenn Hagele
>who makes his living off the
>industry. Patients hate him for good reason. Don't be taking advice from
>Glenn. He's not a medical
>professional, he's just a salesman.
>
>Then there are two idiots named Ragnar and SE rebel who call the unfortunate
>people with bad LASIK
>outcomes who come here for help 'malcontents'. Why don't you take your
>questions to a bulletin
>board called D'eyealogues. Do a google search and you'll find it.
>
>Your astigmatism will make your treatment smaller and oval. This is a
>disaster for your large pupils. You
>will never see well out of the astigmatic eye again. Probably not out of
>either eye, your pupils are so large.
>
>High prescription, thin corneas, large pupils and astigmatism. The red flags
>warning against corneal refractive
>surgery. You have all of these. NEVER do it.
>
>
>"Mike R." <mikeriegger@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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