Lasik surgery
January 5, 2009
Lasik surgery means laser surgery. It is surgery performed for vision correction. Some important steps for safe and successful surgery are given below. These steps are important to safeguard a safe surgery with good results.
• Get your eyes examined for eye diseases like keratoconus or retinal problems before the surgery. If you have these problems, then you cannot have the surgery performed.
• A cycoplegic refraction will be performed by the surgeon, by paralyzing the ability of the eye to accommodate, so that he can get exact refraction.
• Don’t wear soft contacts for a week and hard contacts for about four weeks before going for an eye examination and surgery, as they can cause inaccurate surgery.
• Drops will be given to you to anesthetize the cornea; the measurement will be taken by tapping the cornea with a pachymeter to check the thickness.
• Some more numbing eye drops will be given to you and you will be made to wash your face with an antibiotic cleanser. Antibiotic eye drops will also be given to you. Ensure that you don’t take too much medication, as you have to be awake for the surgery.
• When the operation is about to start, the surgeon will ask you to shut the uninfected eye and will wide open the infected one with a surgical drape. Then you will be given a stronger dose of anesthesia. This dose stings a lot till it takes effect. Remember to get the complete medication so that you don’t feel the cornea being touched, as the cornea is very sensitive.
Post surgery:-
• You will feel heavy and sleepy after the surgery. You will be asked to wait for 20 minutes so that the flab of cornea beds down. Then you will be sent home, but you won’t be allowed to drive. So ask some one to accompany you.
• You will have to wear a pair of dark sunglasses all the time for a week to protect the eye from UV radiation.
• You will also have to wear a plastic shield over the eye every night when you go to sleep. This is to avoid any incidental rubbing.
• Be cautious for the first five days, as they are very critical.
• The doctor will ask you to use various eye drops. Use them religiously with the instructions.
• Remember to wash your hands before touching the eye or the nearby areas to avoid infection.
• You will experience fluctuation in your eye vision, so don’t panic. The cornea takes time to heal and it can take three to six months for the vision to stabilize.
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