Myope5
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Listen to the lasik victims speak their own problems!
----------Victim said:
Most LASIK patients report seeing daytime starbursts associated with reflection off bright objects.
One of the sources of these distortions may be abnormal refraction through the flap interface, which logically would not have the same refractive properties as a normal intact cornea which does NOT have an interface.
Junk under the flap is the rule, rather than the exception and junk under the flap could contribute to daytime starbursts.
Also it has been determined that most lasik patients have folds in their Bowman's membrane called microstriae. These could also be a source of daytime starbursts.
Surgeons, PLEASE tell your patients that the flap never heals and that they will have an interface for life. Recognize that you are decreasing the optical quality of your patients' corneas! They have a right to know, and you have the responsibility to communicate these facts!
----------Another victim said:
I watched a video of a flap that disintegrated when relifted for an "enhancement"
My question concerns the stromal bed under the flap. You can see it shining in the light and it looks rough and pitted. Looks like the microkeratome tore instead of cut, resulting in pits. Is that correct, or perhaps bits of the flap stuck to the stromal bed when the flap was relifted, and the cut really was smooth? I don't know. I know the flap is really really weak in the center, with barely 9 % of its original strength, so I don't see it sticking in the center.
I just don't understand how they could apply a wavefront to that and call it medicine.
----------Another victim said:
A microkeratome, when everything works properly, gives a very clean smooth cut. Then the surgeon performs laser ablation on the smooth, cut surface leaving it rough, pitted and pockmarked. Dead and dying cells remain in the interface, trapped with any junk that happened to be floating around that day in the operating room. Dead and dying cells release proteolytic enzymes and inflammatory mediators and may kill nearby cells when they release pharmacologically active substances while trapped inside an artificial interface 'cesspool' that cannot clean itself.
The flap may make some connection with the underlying stroma, but never heals completely to the stroma. This is why the flap can easily be lifted by the surgeon even a decade later with a simple tool. Perhaps lifting the flap after it has 'healed' and the term 'healed' must be used here in the loosest possible sense because the flap never heals.... causes some additional roughness on the interface surfaces.
The corneal nerves are also ripped apart again, so more dry eye.
Every patient should watch some videos of a LASIK surgery and enhancement, and a few that go wrong... before they decide to have a surgery with consequences that they must deal with for life.
That rough interface can't possibly refract light the same way a normal intact cornea would. Perhaps this is why all LASIK patients I have ever known admit to seeing sparklebursts or 'daybursts' reflecting off any bright object. I hate those. If those had been in my informed consent form it would have been enough to put me off LASIK surgery.
Everywhere you look there is something abnormal about your vision to remind you that you had LASIK.
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