About a week ago I had another eye appointment. After my lasik procedure my left eye was TACK sharp. My right eye left a little to be desired... My optometrist kept reassuring me that things would be fine. Somehow the right eye would magically catch up to the left.
First we treated the right eye differently with some drops than we treated the left. This had some good affect. After a month or so the left eye was perfect (better than 20/15 which is as good as he could measure) and the right was seeing about 20/25. I can only guess that my right eye was over corrected by the procedure. I was slightly near sighted. Dr. Knapp sent me home that day with a contact for my right eye. He said to wear it for the next 6 nights and to come back to see him. The contact had enough correction to make both eyes very even. It was great! Except I'd just paid a bunch of money and was still wearing a contact lens...
The first few days were really nice but then things became unbalanced again (which gives me a headache when I'm reading)... Each day was a little worse. I took the lens out Thursday afternoon. Guess what??? The right eye was MUCH improved! Almost perfect in fact.
I went back to see Dr. Knapp on Monday and the lens worked as planned... basically it irritated my eye causing the eye to lay down an embryonic layer of collagen cells (I'm going from memory here and have know idea what I'm talking about). The collagen cells pull water into the cornea that causes the eye to become more nearsighted... (yeah, I thought the guy was smoking crack too :)
He says things will continue to improve for a bit and told me to come back for my 6 month evaluation. Life is good! My vision is great!
Black magic or not, I'm a fan of intra-lasik (www.dishler.com)
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That's great, David.
ReplyDeleteI've gotten to where I completely take my eyesight for granted now.
Sweet!