Lasik Eye

This story is for my friends and also my family who wonder what it is like to go through a Lasik vision correction operation. I had shared my experiences with some other friends at work that have also had this procedure done, and there are enough variations to give insight to those who are trying to choose between different Lasik physicians or different Lasik centers.

First of all, my Lasik operation was scheduled for 3 PM in the afternoon, which was fine with me. One of the directions for the possible patient that has just had a Lasik operation was to go to sleep as soon as possible, in order for the healing process to begin quickly.Usually by the end of the afternoon I am too tired after working all day to be very nervous. Well, usually…

I had been there only for a few minutes when I was called into a preparing room to get ready for the Lasik operation, and to get instructions on how to care for my eyes once the Lasik vision correction has been done. They offered me some pills like Ativan, which is a mild sedative just to keep me calm during the Lasik operation. The lasers themselves monitor any head or eye movement and turn themselves off when it occurs, so it isn’t that the sedative is for anything other than psychological reasons. I took it anyway. All of my friends at work also took it, though none of us really felt any different than we did before. Apparently it is a mild, but good sedative.

My eyes were prepared for the Lasik operation by being dosed with some eye numbing drops and some kind of medication. I cannot be absolutly sure of the other pre-operative steps, as I think I was trying hard not to think about either Lasik or my eyes. Maybe the sedative was a bit stronger than I imagined it was.

At this point I was leed into another room for some time, where I sat back,relax a little bit, listened to the piped-in music, and awaited my turn in the Lasik operating room. There were two other persons waiting with me in this room, so apparently my doctor different setup for his Lasik patients than my colleagues. Both were alone in their pre-op rooms until they were escorted into the room where the Lasik operation was actually performed.

As to the Lasik operation itself, all of us have similar memories from this procedure. Each of us felt a little pressure when the various Lasik implements were used on our eyes, though there wasn’t any real discomfort or pain. There was a blurring of vision for the eye being worked on, but the real feeling was mainly audio - the clicks and the whirring of the machine. One of my colleagues also remembered a smell, somewhat reminiscent of hair burning. There may have been a slight smell during my Lasik operation, but it wasn’t significant enough for my attention to be really focused on it.

After a short amount of time, my Lasik physician said he was done and that I had been a good and calm patient. In all of our Lasik experiences, the procedure itself was much easier than all of our worries about it beforehand. I hope this helps those of you considering having a Lasik operation done.