Hi all, Just want to share my experience so far with ICL surgery in WPG, Canada. 35 YO female, high prescription, contacts wearer, glasses since I was 7. I went for a set of consults in January/February 2024 for trans PRK. I had last been for a consult back in 2019 before my last pregnancy where I was told I was a candidate for PRK in my left eye but not in my right due to my high prescription/low corneal thickness. I was a bit disappointed to hear that I was no longer a candidate for PRK in either eye but decided to move forward with ICL in boht eyes. My glasses prescription is -10.25 R and ..read more

TLDR; under main body of text Hi everyone. I had my ICL surgery last Monday. Just wanted to share my experience as it helped me pre-op reading other people's comments on the procedure. Background: F32. UK. -9 right eye and -8.75 left eye. High astigmatism. Been wearing glasses since age 5/6 and contact lenses since 16/17. The day of the surgery was abit of a nightmare not going to lie. I booked my op for first thing in the morning so I didn't get myself worked up during the day. Turns out they didn't have a "kit" which was needed for my surgery, and so they had to arrange a courier to get it ..read more

I've wanted lasik for a long time and recently found out I have common variable immunodeficiency, I am taking cuvitru for immuglobulin replacement. I am considered immunocompromised because of my response to vaccines and just lower numbers that they're replacing. I was recently cleared for plastic surgery from gastric a few years ago tho. I also did some gene studies which said I'm at high risk of MD etc. No one lives past 50 in my family to know haha. I'm 36 now My astigmatism is pretty bad from what I've been told OD Sphere -4.75, CYL-1.0, AXIS 175 OS Sphere -4.00, CYL -1.0, AXIS 160 When I ..read more

I had 20/80 vision and astigmatism before LASIK. Can’t see crap further than arms reach, not the worst but not the best. I enjoy doing a lot of things such as off-roading and swimming that glasses are just bothersome to have on and contacts always hurt me eyes. I was approved for LASIK last month ($5,000) plus APR which was a big decision considering I’m building my credit (this helps) and also have a family to support. I got the go ahead, and decided it would hopefully be a great choice for the future considering the cost of my eyes getting worse every year. Anyways, fast forward to yesterda ..read more

I’m 40 year old male and seeking myopia reduction from my -20 glasses prescription with astigmatism. I’ve met with a surgeon and sounds like i can be reduced but not fully corrected. It’s my understanding that after the procedure I’ll have about a -2 to -3 script still requiring some correction. However, I’ll be able to wear “normal” glasses, have access to many different types of contacts and function better without either in certain circumstances. It would be quite a life changer from my current basically blind state and reluctance to wear glasses outside of my house. I just had my first me ..read more

Some background I have been wearing contact lenses my entire adult life, 16+ hours every single day, without any issues. That's despite leaving the contact lenses in on backpacking trips (frequent in summer) and overnight flights (couple of times a year), which is a bit iffy. My correction is around -8 D, with 2 D astigmatism, so I can't read anything without touching it with my nose; my odds of survival outside the house are slim, so I always need to remember to bring along backup contact lenses and/or glasses ? I have a pair of emergency glasses, but I never use them because it would take m ..read more

Not sure why I'm posting this. Maybe for therapy. Most of you know the risks. If I had found this subreddit prior to getting LASIK done I don't think I would have done it. 1.5 years post LASIK. I was 37 at the time. I had a mild prescription, only needing glasses to drive and watch TV, but I had mild astigmatism in my left eye which was making it hard to read spreadsheets and such for work. Decided to get LASIK without looking into all of the side-effects and how common some of them were. I found a "LASIK-mill" as I now know they're called, but it was very well reviewed and the surgeon had co ..read more

In both auto and subjective refractometry, the determined spheric and cylindric diopters have an accuracy of 0.25, which means the optimal value can be anywhere in a range of ±0.125 diopters. In contrast, the aberrometer can measure the corresponding values exactly. In the case of non-wavefront-guided treatments, are these rounded values considered, causing a slight under- or overcorrection? Are these treatments rely on the auto or the subjective refractometry data? In the case of wavefront-guided treatments, are the exact values considered for both the higher and lower order aberrations? su ..read more

Schwind Peramis is a combined topography device and aberrometer. In the other hand, Schwind Sirius is a combined Scheimpflug camera with a topographer. But, they say Sirius can also measure wavefront. Does it mean it can do the same ocular wavefront measurements as Peramis (so measure wavefront of the whole eye, through the pupil), or is it only corneal wavefront? Can wavefront optimized and/or wavefront guided treatment be done using the Sirius device? submitted by /u/Zix312 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hello, I had PRK 3 months ago and have been experiencing issues with my dominant eye (right). My right eye is significantly blurrier than the left, which is really nice and sharp. My eyes reached this point at about the 2-month mark, and since then, I have not seen any change in my right eye. I went to the 3-month follow-up appointment and was told everything looked fine, but there was no explanation for why my right eye has remained stagnant. I obtained a copy of the autorefractor results and discovered I have some astigmatism (-1.00CYL) in my right eye and (-0.25CYL) in my left. I was not t ..read more