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Lasik Eye Surgery Risk Factors You Need To Know

All surgeries have benefits as well as risks. There is always the possibility of Lasik eye surgery affecting your vision. You should thus consider the risks it carries and then take your decision.

You must make an informed decision. And thus you must learn the facts about Lasik eye surgery. You must know how the eye works and learn the intricate details about the cornea. Once you know about all this you should take time to find a good eye surgeon for yourself. One of the biggest measures you can take to reduce the risks is to appoint a talented and practiced surgeon as your surgery will be hugely dependent on who does it.

What is Lasik? Basically, it’s an acronym for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and is a laser eye surgery procedure that can permanently correct your vision. The operation has best results in patients who suffer the following conditions: from moderate to high degrees or myopia (nearsightedness), low to moderate conditions of hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism associated with myopia, and thick corneas.

People with normal vision can perceive objects lucidly, for the lights and shadows that play on and around the object are brought to a focal point by the cornea and the lens of the eye. Ideally, the curvature of the cornea should evenly match its length. However, people with astigmatism, myopia, or hyperopia, have irregularly structured cornlasikThus the objects appear hazy or disfigured.

Lasik targets to change the shape of the corneas by an accurate removal of the corneal tissue. This removal corrects the eye focusing ability. So what are the risks?
1. The most conspicuous risk is that you might totally lose your eyesight. This could happen if your diagnosis had been wrong or the operation should not have been performed because of some other serious medical affliction. You could be pregnant, have cataracts, rheumatism, diabetes, glaucoma, lupus, etc. Lasik eye surgery must not be performed under such circumstances.

2. Another grave danger is that you will lose perception, insight or acuteness of vision because you had large pupils and very poor eye sight in the first place.

3. If you have dry ear syndrome it could be made with surgery. Again, it’s vital you discuss this with your surgeon before you agree to have any surgical work performed.

4. You might also permanently have hazy vision, reduced contrast, or see blurry ghost-like shapes that do not exist. In many cases, these are temporary and will be pointed out as risks by your surgeon.

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Pan retinal coagulation or vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy?

I am a type 1 diabetic looking for questions about proliferative diabetic retinopathy. I have had diabetes for the last 15 years. I have maintained very good control over the years and excellent control over the last 2 years. I have just been diagnosed with Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and I am going in for surgery tomorrow morning. I have been told they will do laser surgery as well as another test (fluorescein angiogram). If they have already decided to do laser surgery, then why the angiogram? I know I have a vitreous haemmorhage, but does this always result in a vitrectomy? Do the results from the angiogram help make the decision as to whether or not a vitrectomy is needed. If the vitrectomy is not needed, what happens to the blood in my eye? Does it clear on its own?
Any help is much appreciated.

They will do the angiogram for a before vs. after treatment comparison. Even though they did one in the diagnosis, they will do another to be closer to the surgery time. This is standard operating procedure. They will do more as follow ups. I hate those fluorescein angiograms. They make me puke.

The blood should clear up, assuming the bleeding stops. The vitreous humor has transport mechanisms to help diffuse and clear the retina. However, the older you are, the less efficient these mechanisms are.

Good luck. It happens to the best of us, those pesky proliferative vessels. Good control is not the only factor. There are many. Diabetes sucks, but you gotta keep living.

Diabetes & Blindness Discussed By Dr. Brent Reed of Griffin and Reed Eyecare