Laser Surgery

I have been having blurred vision for awhile, and am having laser on the 22nd.
Now I have to cancell a couple shops I just scheduled, and hope they believe
me...do I need a Dr.'s note as we did in school. smile, I'm sure all will be o.k.,

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Irene - Hope all goes well for you and did you know that the eye is the quickest healing organ of the body?

I didn't know that, but it feels good to know...we're all a bit afraid of the unknown......thanks!

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When I had to have cataract surgery I was not really fond of the idea of anyone cutting around my eyes so did a bit of research on the good old internet and that was one tidbit I retained. It seems the eye can actually heal overnight for some things and pretty quickly for others.

Irene,

Please let me know how it goes? I will and should probably get it done.

I'm absolutely TERRIFIED of it though!

I would rather walk into a room with roaches (and that's the other thing that terrifies me - spiders, snakes, scorpions, I can ignore them, no biggie - but roaches, uh uh, no way, lived around Florida's 6" roaches too long!)

The IDEA of seeing this, this THING go toward my eye is just sickening. I know, what a wuss. (I'm also terrible at the eye doctor, I have to have my head locked in just for those glaucoma or "air" tests!)

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I had lasik surgery 11 years ago...one of the best decisions I've ever made. I used to be almost legally blind before the lasik. My eyesight is now 20/15!

A word of advice...if they offer you a valium, take it. I took the valium and was fine. A big burly man was in the waiting room with me. When he was offered a valium he declined. Well, he ended up fainting!!!

The procedure doesn't hurt, but you will feel some pressure.

Good luck!!!! You'll do fine

This laser is due to a cataract replaced 5 years ago, some stems grew back,
and the laser clears it up...the Doc said it wasn't a severe procedure and
wouldn't take long, he made me feel o.k. after that, I have to have extensive
testing on my eye, I may have the start of Glacoma, thank god it is now treatable. I'm looking forward to fully see again, but as I said to a friend, I look good without sight, when I see, will I frighten myself!!

Rainey, don't be a wuss, bite the bullet, with the technology today, along
with a great Dr., you'll be fine...

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Pheobe, i am just reading this thread and I also had laser surgery years ago and was almost legally blind at the time...so I just read "A big Blurry man was in the waiting room and had to laugh. But now i see he was burly, not blurry. only a joke a formerly almost blind person would understand.:
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> I had lasik surgery 11 years ago...one of the best
> decisions I've ever made. I used to be almost
> legally blind before the lasik. My eyesight is
> now 20/15!
>
> A word of advice...if they offer you a valium,
> take it. I took the valium and was fine. A big
> burly man was in the waiting room with me. When
> he was offered a valium he declined. Well, he
> ended up fainting!!!
>
> The procedure doesn't hurt, but you will feel some
> pressure.
>
> Good luck!!!! You'll do fine

Sandyf...LOL!!!

Irene, how did the surgery go?

Don't be afraid, was painless, lasted 5 minutes. They numb your eye with a drop, it's quite interesting, and after a few hours, I could see so much better, however, I am now hosting black spots looking like bugs, they have a name, (floaters).
The Doc spends one day a week just doing this, very common and great to see.

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wow, Irene, thanks for sharing, it makes me feel less nervous about the idea of laser surgery. Glad you are OK.

Glad it's over Irene, a few years ago I got those floaty black spots too. Went to the eye dr, he said don't worry, they'll go away....they did. But it scared me cause I never had those black things before.

Those floaty black spots are called "floaters" - apt, huh?

Irene - Am I understanding this correctly that you did not have floaters before the surgery, but you had them after the surgery? Are they supposed to go away?

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.

Floaters are not really a big deal. I have a ton of them in my left eye, but they are not from any surgery or other "event." They do NOT interfere with my eye sight. I have been treated very successfully for glaucoma for about 10 years now. With treatment, my eye pressure is lower than it was 60 years ago. Just be super aware that some of the many types of eye drops used to treat glaucoma may interfere with a few other meds' effectiveness. I had to change opthalmologists because mine didn't seem alert to that issue.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2012 03:27PM by walesmaven.

Correct, I never had them, now do, going back to Dr. in April and will talk about it, some people lose them and some have them remain, looks like bugs
flying around, moving along with the eye, have them in my house, not bad when I'm outside, but, very annoying. I am told I could have had them, but they were dormant, and laser woke them up, so to speak. Choosing between "floaters" or good vision, I'll take the latter.
MDavisnowell Wrote:
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> Irene - Am I understanding this correctly that you
> did not have floaters before the surgery, but you
> had them after the surgery? Are they supposed to
> go away?

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I was told the two required drops per day to control Glaucoma cost $90.00 a month, but it is your vision. I will be having extensive eye testing in May. Have a great Dr., and found this carrier from a change I made this Jan. due to an MS seminar...thank you AARP. My other carrier didn't do laser. The floaters are annoying, but remember, I never had them, so, definitely something
to get used too. Typing this there is a bug typing right along with me and slows me down a bit.

walesmaven Wrote:
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> Floaters are not really a bog deal. I have a ton
> of them in my left eye, but they are not from any
> surgery or other "event." They do NOT interfere
> with my eye sight. I have been treated very
> successfully for glaucoma for about 10 years now.
> With tratment, my eye pressure is lower than it
> was 60 years ago. Just be super aware that some
> of the many types of eye drops used to treat
> glaucoma may interfere with a few other meds'
> effectiveness. I had to change opthalmologists
> because mine didn't seem alert to that issue.

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My floaters always remind me of a dead spider hanging in front of my eye. They seem to come and go and I think mine kind of show up when I have been hanging on the computer too much.

Irene,
Ask your opthalmologist for samples of those eye drops, even between visits. My doc knows I am on a limited income and about half of all of my drops come from her supply of samples. That kept me out of the dreaded "donut hole" last year, just barely.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

Wales...thanks, will do, every bit helps at this point.

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I haven't posted on here in eons but have been lurking around a bit.. don't really do much shopping any more except for Ardent Svc..

Anyway - Irene, I'm glad to hear the surgery went well! I am having Lasik done on Wednesday of next week - excited but scared at the same time, especially because I am chicken of anything eye related. Was it actual Lasik that you had done, with the flap, or another type of laser eye surgery?

I have had floaters for several years now - I will tell you it is worse when you are looking at solid, light colored areas, like walls in a house or a large white area of a computer screen.

Hi Cindy, long time.....this was laser, lasik is totally different, laser is an
easier procedure, good luck.

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Not sure which eye drops you are on, but there are generic ones which just came out a few months ago for the ones that I was on which has been working out great for me and the cost is so much less. I would ask the doctor about it.

Irene_L.A. Wrote:
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> I was told the two required drops per day to
> control Glaucoma cost $90.00 a month, but it is
> your vision.

G3B and Irene,
Just a heads up. The eye drops that just became available in generic form are precisely the ones I had to get off of because they interferred with another medication that I must take. If you want more detaims about what med, please PM me for confidential info.

Either way, whatever you pay for stopping glaucoma in its tracks, repeat after me, "I'm worth it."

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

I already asked about generic drops and was told the ones I need do not come
in generic, that's why they cost so much and what I need as Wales said. They
work for Glaucoma, and "I'm worth it", and always believe what you Dr. says,
Doc knows best.

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So you gotta pick up a few extra jobs a month to pay for your drops..."YOU'RE WORTH IT!"

I'm really worth a bunch more,....like relaxing on a nice cruise without doing a report, or not going blind, or not supplementing my income, or or or....

SecretAgentMom Wrote:
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> So you gotta pick up a few extra jobs a month to
> pay for your drops..."YOU'RE WORTH IT!"

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update....eyes still bothering me, got new glasses and just went in for extensive testing to find out I have Glacoma in my right eye, have lost 1/4 of my vision....being treated with drops for two months to stablize eye in 3 months and will need surgery to drain fluid and possibly get a nerve transplant.....feeling insecure about driving, so, jobs cut back once again.

Update, I got a sample of generic drops, and they work with no problem, but,
I'm not on meds...cost so much less than the 90.00 I thought, and feel the
eye stabilizing, but still having surgery.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/08/2012 02:53PM by Irene_L.A..

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