Comments on: Expenditure of Lasik Eye Surgery: Check Up the Cost of Surgery http://lasikeyecost.com/expenditure-of-lasik-eye-surgery-check-up-the-cost-of-surgery.html Lasik Eye Surgery Resources & Lasik Cost Information Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:14:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jerzyson29 http://lasikeyecost.com/expenditure-of-lasik-eye-surgery-check-up-the-cost-of-surgery.html/comment-page-1#comment-589 jerzyson29 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:44 +0000 http://bankratescompared.com/?p=577#comment-589 It's nothing new. News is merely rehashing old complications with LASIK. Basically, FDA is reviewing the number of complications that come with LASIK. Can be mild as 30% experience dry eyes. 5% can experience night time halo effect (see double or triple vision of shinny objects like headlights or the moon). 1% can experience loss of vision. Most important consideration is that eye doctors should evaluate who's a proper candidate or not. Among those who had complications are the ones that doctors ignored disqualifying factors with the patient's eyes and operated anyways. FDA is reviewing those cases as well. It's nothing new. News is merely rehashing old complications with LASIK. Basically, FDA is reviewing the number of complications that come with LASIK. Can be mild as 30% experience dry eyes. 5% can experience night time halo effect (see double or triple vision of shinny objects like headlights or the moon). 1% can experience loss of vision.

Most important consideration is that eye doctors should evaluate who's a proper candidate or not. Among those who had complications are the ones that doctors ignored disqualifying factors with the patient's eyes and operated anyways. FDA is reviewing those cases as well.

]]> By: robert4932@sbcglobal.net http://lasikeyecost.com/expenditure-of-lasik-eye-surgery-check-up-the-cost-of-surgery.html/comment-page-1#comment-588 robert4932@sbcglobal.net Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:23:31 +0000 http://bankratescompared.com/?p=577#comment-588 Yes, complications do occur, in a percentage of cases, from the minor to the very serious. About 96% of people, even if they do have some side effects would still recommend the procedure to a friend. (Most common side effects: Rx not as near zero as hoped for. Dry eyes, temporarily or permanently. Haloes and glare at night, temporarily or permanently.) The essential thing about contact lens wear is that the Rx can be changed if the eyes do, and that if there are any problems the lenses can be changed or discontinued. To my mind that flexibility is worth a little inconvenience, but that is a personal decision. Opting for laser treatment, certain risks have to be taken on board as possible lasting effects. Hence the consent from that is to be talked through and agreed to. (sample below, along with the FDA Lasik site.) Yes, complications do occur, in a percentage of cases, from the minor to the very serious.

About 96% of people, even if they do have some side effects would still recommend the procedure to a friend.

(Most common side effects:
Rx not as near zero as hoped for.
Dry eyes, temporarily or permanently.
Haloes and glare at night, temporarily or permanently.)

The essential thing about contact lens wear is that the Rx can be changed if the eyes do, and that if there are any problems the lenses can be changed or discontinued.
To my mind that flexibility is worth a little inconvenience, but that is a personal decision.
Opting for laser treatment, certain risks have to be taken on board as possible lasting effects. Hence the consent from that is to be talked through and agreed to. (sample below, along with the FDA Lasik site.)

]]> By: Max F http://lasikeyecost.com/expenditure-of-lasik-eye-surgery-check-up-the-cost-of-surgery.html/comment-page-1#comment-587 Max F Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:11:26 +0000 http://bankratescompared.com/?p=577#comment-587 Over and under-correction are recognised possible side effects or undesireable consequences of Lasik. That should have been explained in talking through the consent form: see sample below. If it wasn't, he has grounds for complaint. Planning the amount of corneal removal is based on an *average* corneal reaction to the laser, but healing responses vary so, even with correct technique, an Rx reduced to zero is only aimed for, not assured. If there is no other reaction or problem, top-up treatment may well be a possibility.(with the same small risks as the original op), but it would be quite usual to wait three months to make sure the prescription has done all the changing that it's going to. (Re-lifting the flap for the adjustment is quite easy for much longer than that.) Over and under-correction are recognised possible side effects or undesireable consequences of Lasik.
That should have been explained in talking through the consent form: see sample below.
If it wasn't, he has grounds for complaint.

Planning the amount of corneal removal is based on an *average* corneal reaction to the laser, but healing responses vary so, even with correct technique, an Rx reduced to zero is only aimed for, not assured.

If there is no other reaction or problem, top-up treatment may well be a possibility.(with the same small risks as the original op), but it would be quite usual to wait three months to make sure the prescription has done all the changing that it's going to.

(Re-lifting the flap for the adjustment is quite easy for much longer than that.)

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