Taking care of your eyes after Lasik surgery

Before I undergo my Lasik eye surgery, I have to see the optemetrist to check on my power and for them to decide what will be the best configuration for my both eyes. I remember after I've done all the checking, there will be one session where the optometrist inform me the precautions that I need to take seriously after the surgery. Here, I would like to share some of the advice that I still remember for everyone out there to take it seriously once you have undergo Lasik eye surgery.

1. Please make sure that you don't take a bath, shower or clean your hair until the day after the surgery.
2. Try to avoid during shower, soap does not intact to your eyes a week after the surgery. You also need to avoid any hair spray and shaving lotion into your eyes for faster healing process.
3. Don't ever rub your eye after the surgery.
4. Do not drive within a week after the surgery or you are confident that you can drive. For your first time driving after the surgery, please bring someone along to help you in any difficulties.
5. You will be given an eye shield after the surgery. Please ensure you wear it while sleeping or at least a week to avoid any uncontrolled occurrence to your eyes.
6. If you decide to wash your face, please ensure that the tap water does not direcly get into your eyes at least for a week.
7. Please do not involve in any outside or indoor activity such as swimming, sauna or any sports a month after the surgery.
8. Some of us have to cut our hair or get hair colored or permed. Avoid this at least 10 days after the surgery.
9. Some of us like to have exercise as their daily routine. You may do so but after two days of surgery.
10. Please wear eye protection or a sunglass when you need to go outside or outdoor activity for at least a month.
11. Dryness is normal after the surgery and it is important avoiding any dirty and dusty environment. This will help you to control the dryness.
12. Please make sure you do not look straight to the sun directly. Please use any protection such as sunglass.

These are some of the tips that I still can remember from optometrist advice. I hope these tips will guide everyone out there to take care of your eyes after the Lasik eye surgery.

Take care and see in another post.

Procedures and complications

Every time I meet people that I know, they will ask what happen to your glasses, Did you break it? This is some of common questions I received because they know that I've been using glasses for a long time. So I started to explain that I'm free from glasses anymore. I can see without using anything, glasses or lens. So start to explain that I've undergo a Lasik eye surgery. Some of them know about the surgery very basic and some them don't know anything what is Lasik all about. So here I would like to share what is Lasik procedures and is there any complication after the surgery.

Procedures
Throughout the surgery, you will be awake. You actually know and feel what are the doctor do with your eyes. It sometime scarry because the femtoseconds machine come closer to your eyes. Once you have sit on the reclining chair, a numbing drops will be put into your eyes and once your eyes are fully numb, there will be a special tools to make your eyes open throughout the procedures. So the doctor will ask you to focus on a light to ensure that your eye are remain steady within the procedure. A suction cup will be placed on the surface of you eye and the laser will cut a flap on the protective membrane of the eye. This will allow to manipulative of the cornea. So the laser will start to reconstructive your cornea according to the correct configuration. One eye will take only seconds for this procedure to complete. Once complete, the flap will be restores to its position and it will heal on its own.

Complication
Here I would like to share some complication after the procedure. You may feel burn, water and itch. This is common for everyone after completing this procedures. Your vision are blurred after the procedure and I would recommend you to find someone to drive you home. You can't drive at all after the surgery and the doctor will give a protective guard for you to wear at night. You also need to place an eye drops to help you to overcome the pain such as antibiotic and other medications. For you to have a perfect vision, usually it will take more than 3 month for you to have a perfect vision and for your eyes to stabilize. Some people still need glasses after the procedures. This you need to see your doctor what has happen.

Ok. I'll be seeing you on another post sharing my knowledge and thoughts about Lasik for everyone to think and analyze before making any decision.

Bye...

Does LASIK safe for long-term?

If everyone are following my blog, I'm sure that most of you understand and have your own views what is Lasik all about. My previous post shared knowledge for everyone to consider undergo this surgery or not. After I shared my experience having this surgery, a friend of mine ask a question.."I don't believe you can see after 10 minutes of surgery and the procedures only took less than 15 minutes". Well this is what happen to me and the rest of us who opted to have this surgery. This are some of the questions that people may ask and sometimes is hard to explain within minutes you can see the world clearly without having glasses anymore. Anyway, I would like to share views from the expert that I've read from Foxnews. com/health on the long term effect after doing Lasik.

As this technology started in early 1990's, there are patients has been undergo with this treatment 18 and 19 years ago and they mentioned that their vision still perfect although they choose to use this kind of treatment during early days and using blades. This proof that Lasik does gave a long-term results.

In 2008, a Spanish researcher has produce a study by following 70 Lasik patients for almost 10 years to know the effect on vision towards this treatment. His finding was these patient had healthy corneas and their vision remained accurate. The study also indicate that the procedure is safe and the technology used is effectively  efficient.

So, these are some of the opinion from the expert that I would like to share and at the same time would like people who are interested to know about Lasik to think carefully before making any decision. As for me, the only issues was the dryness at the early stage but with eye drops it help. Other than feeling happy playing football without a wearing glass on it, I've enjoy to have numbers of other activities. It raised my confident level and I feel that sometime decision that we make does make our life changed.

I'll share my thought and opinion from people out there about Lasik in other post. By the way, I'm not promoting any doctors, clinics or hospital for this surgery by I'm sharing my views from experience that I've got for people to know about this treatment and think precisely before making any decision.

See everyone on next post. Take a very good care of your eyes. It is most precious gift from god!

What is Lasik all about...

These are some of the information that I would like to share all about Lasik Eye Surgery. Its good to know how does the procedures gonna be. Once we know all about Lasik, making decision is another challenging thing. So, think wisely before you made the decision and before that, enjoy reading!

LASIK, which stands for laser in-situ keratomileusis, is a popular surgery used to correct vision in people who are nearsighted, farsighted, or have astigmatism.

All laser vision correction surgeries work by reshaping the cornea, the clear front part of the eye, so that light traveling through it is properly focused onto the retina located in the back of the eye. LASIK is one of a number of different surgical techniques used to reshape the cornea.

What Are the Advantages of LASIK Eye Surgery?

LASIK has many benefits, including:

·    It corrects vision. Around 96% of patients will have their desired vision after LASIK. An enhancement can further increase this number.

·      LASIK is associated with very little pain due to the numbing drops that are used.

·      Vision is corrected nearly immediately or by the day after LASIK.

·      No bandages or stitches are required after LASIK.

·      Adjustments can be made years after LASIK to further correct vision if vision changes while you age.

After having LASIK, most patients have a dramatic reduction in eyeglass or contact lens dependence and many patients no longer need them at all.

How LASIK Works

The LASIK procedure is performed by ophthalmologists, medical doctors who specialize in surgical treatments of the eye.  Here is a general outline of the procedure:

·      Anesthetic eye drops are applied to the eye.
 

·      The LASIK surgeon creates a protective flap to access the inner corneal tissue. During this part of the procedure, your vision dims and becomes blurry for about a minute.  After the flap is created you are able to see the flashing fixation light of the laser and the bright lights used for the procedure.
 

·      Next the inner layers of your cornea receive computer-controlled pulses of cool laser light. Although the laser light is invisible, the laser makes a clicking sound as it gently reshapes the inner corneal layer to improve and in many cases, eliminate your prescription. During this part of the procedure, an eye-tracking device tracks your eye movements to ensure precise correction.
 

·      Following the re-shaping of the tissue, the LASIK surgeon carefully repositions and aligns the flap to its original position. Protective shields are placed over your eye to prevent accidental rubbing as the flap heals naturally and securely over the next several hours.

·      After the LASIK eye surgery procedure, patients feel moderate discomfort and irritation for a few hours, but most are comfortable after a nap and rest.

How Should I Prepare for LASIK Eye Surgery?

Before LASIK eye surgery, you will meet with a coordinator or eye surgeon who will discuss what to expect during and after the procedure. During this session, your medical history will be evaluated and your eyes will be fully examined. Likely initial tests include measuring corneal thickness, refraction, corneal mapping, air pressure, and pupil dilation. Once you have gone through the initial evaluation, you will meet the surgeon, who will answer any questions you may have. Afterwards, you can schedule an appointment for the procedure.

If you wear rigid gas permeable contact lenses, you should not wear them for at least three weeks before your evaluation. Other types of contact lenses shouldn't be worn for at least three days prior to the evaluation. Be sure to bring your eyeglasses to the surgeon so your prescription can be reviewed.

On the day of your surgery, eat a light meal before going to the doctor and take all of your prescribed medications. Do not wear eye makeup or have any bulky accessories in your hair that will interfere with positioning your head under the laser. If you are not feeling well that morning, call the doctor's office to determine whether the procedure needs to be postponed.

I hope my sharing will help in making decisions.

See U in other post.

Experience from LASIK EYE patience

It was a full house when we organize the eye screening and public talk by our volunteers doctors last week. We share so many thing with the participants and there are people who still consider to have Lasik surgery but not sure if they would go for this treatment. This talk has provide them with extra knowledge not only how to take care of our eyes but to know all about Lasik eye surgery. Most of them know that if they proceed with the surgery, there will not be any u-turn and they need to know everything prior for them to make any decision. Some of them who has issue on poor vision, has gain useful knowledge how to take care of their eye and what are the treatment available to help them improve their vision.

During this event, I managed to talk and share with people who has undergo Lasik eye surgery. Mr. Hisham Nor who has done this surgery a year ago share some of his experience. He said that he only read information on Lasik via the Internet. From his reading he knows a bit what are Lasik all about and after a while he made his decision to have this surgery. His issue after the surgery was the dryness of his eyes. The doctor who's doing this surgery does not inform him the consequences but only told him that his vision will be normal within a month. The dryness continues until now and to overcome it he will ensure to avoid places that has a lot of dust. After a year, this issue still continue and he has to bring along eye drop everywhere he go. He would like to advice anyone to ask a few doctor and not just reading it over the Internet.

I also met Mr. Arul who has undergo this surgery more than 6 month. He informed that his vision was better than before and having dryness only for 3 month and he's happy on his vision now. The most important for him was he does not need to wear glasses anymore. This make him happy after the Lasik surgery. His advice was prior to make any decision, do a lot of homework and ask a least 3 doctors on the implications and advantages of Lasik eye surgery.

My opinion was, the public need to be inform what is the advantages and disadvantages of Lasik eye surgery. This is to avoid people misunderstood this technology does not gave an equal vision for them. This surgery corrects our left eye for farsighted and right eye for shortsighted. If we're willing to have this kind of vision, you may do so but if we think that its not worthy, we have contact lenses and glasses as our alternative.

Think wisely before you make any decision. 

Eye Screening and Public Talk

We will be organizing a public talk and eye screening as an efforts to raise awareness among the public towards common eye condition, treatment conditions and eye care. Come and join this informative and interactive session with our experienced doctors for FREE. Our doctors will also talk on laser and non-laser refractive surgery procedures or known as LASIK which is available and discuss the pros and cons. You also know if you are qualify to such treatment of not. Our doctors will also speaks on common eye conditions that cause poor vision in the young as well as the elderly.

Topic are covered include

• Cataract
• Diabetes and age related
• Disorder of the eye such as blurring vision and double vision
• Glaucoma
• Cornea and contact lens related

SEATS ARE LIMITED!

Please call us at 03-80622422 to book your seat.

Venue: Bukit Puchong Community Hall

Date: 12 April 2014

Time: 9am - 12pm

SEE YOU THERE.

Which visual aids are the best?

Sometimes we are gifted with good pair of eyes and there are people need some visual aids such as contact lenses or a pair of glasses to improve our vision. There are people who are lazy wearing / using these visual aids and just continue with their lives although they know their vision was not perfect. Some people choose to wear glasses to improve their vision but at the end it is our choice what use and wear as long as we are comfortable with it. As time goes on technologies has been develop especially for people choose not to wear any visual aids. Lasik eye surgery is the technology that has been invented to help people who choose not to wear any visual aids.

Lasik stands for laser in situ keratomileusis, which means using a laser underneath a corneal flap (in situ) to reshape the cornea (keratomileusis). This procedure utilizes a highly specialized laser (excimer laser) designed to treat refractive errors, improve vision, and reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses. This laser procedure alters the shape of the cornea, which is the transparent front covering of the eye. Though the excimer laser had been used for many years before, the development of LASIK is generally credited to Ioannis Pallikaris from Greece around 1991.

Eye is gifted to us from god and we need to take care for this valuable organ. It is us who decide in what way to correct our vision. Before you decide which ever visual aids you need to especially when comes to Lasik, it is good that you make some research and homework or ask a doctor before you decide if you need to have a Lasik surgery. Find whatever information and knowledge and throw questions to people that has been undergo this Lasik eye surgery before you decide which is the best for your eyes.

Good Luck!