I just got back from my follow up appointment and I am feeling good about the last 24 hours! Before surgery, I had a pretty substantial astigmatism, meaning my cornea was shaped like a football rather than spherical. And, I was slightly near sighted. Before this surgery I was at roughly 20/400 vision, meaning I couldn't read the giant E at the top of the eye chart. Besides that, I *never* was without my glasses because it pretty much made me feel motion sick to have them off for any period of time. I have always been very picky about my prescription lens, where if my eyes change even the slightest, I can tell.
Today, 24 hours after surgery I was reading at 20/30, which is likely to still improve a bit over the next couple of weeks.
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Yah, my eyes feel scratchy and my night vision is funky, but I'm using the drops constantly and the night vision is no worse than when I had rigid contacts 15 years ago. For the next couple of weeks, everyday I should notice my vision getting clearer/more crisp.
I'm on the verge of being an old sea hag, meaning I'm 40 and the average age for needing reading glasses is 42-45. 'Old eyes' or presbyopia happens when your lens becomes less flexible. I did talk to the doc about the monovision correction for this, where one eye is adjusted for distance and the other for close up. I decided against it because if it's something your brain doesn't adjust too, it seems to be the perfect storm for a migraine that will kill you. I figure I can deal with reading glasses as necessary.
Besides, how cool is it to have a pair of funky glasses perched at the end of your nose, to glare over as needed to make a point with staff, etc?
I went to
Nebraska Laser Eye, but actually went to their Sioux City office just because the schedule availability there meshed better with my calendar.
I had a coupon (!!) given to me by my ophthalmologist in Des Moines. The whole cost was $2500 for both eyes (normally $3500, I'm told), and if I need something redone in the next couple of years it's free. I never personally called Wolfe to check, but my doc told me it's about $4500 to go to Wolfe. Check out the nebraska website 0- you can watch a video of a procedure. I'm big on knowing exactly what is happening, so I really appreciated it.
I'm not a big fan of Wolfe - based on experiences with my Mom where I feel like we get shuffled around from specialist to specialist, yet no one answers your questions because it's not their specialty. But, I will give their plastic surgeon, Dr. Cassady a big should out for putting my lower eyelid back together this spring when a 8mm x 6mm square was removed because of skin cancer - his piecing job is so fantastic you'd never know 1/3 of my lower lid was removed. Of course, Wolfe initially failed, repeatedly, to diagnose the skin cancer until I demanded to have it biopsied because I've had other carcinomas removed. And yes, the Wolfe's doc decided to superscribe 30 days of antibiotics to clear it up ... I'm pretty sure that's NOT taught in any accredited med school.