So with the sponsor from the Lasik clinic starting the thread... I just wanted to shine the light on my Lasik experience for anyone interested in how everything worked. I am sure at every office there might be one or two things that they do different but for the most part they are all the same when it comes to the procedure part of it!
So here it goes!
So when you first get there you sign the final papers and they double make sure you are not allergic to anything, then proceed to give you a valium for pain and some antibiotic eye drops.
After about 5 minutes the nurse came back and gave me more drops.
About another 5-10 minutes later I can start to feel the valium doing its work and also about that time the Doctor comes in, I am pretty sure they have this whole thing timed.
first they sit you in a chair that is laid back. Then the real fun starts!
1. They put a suction cup device on the right eye to get the eye centered. This I would have to say was the most uncomfortable part of the whole surgery for the suction cup device is put under you eye lids and seals your eye ball in one position.
2. They then move the chair under the machine on the left and it presses down on the suction device and started to make the cuts for the flap.
3. Then they take the suction cup off and repeat the process on the left eye.
4.Now that my lenses are cut they move me under the second machine that is the laser that corrects your vision!
5. They tape the eye lids up and down so you cannot blink and moves the flap down.
6. Then they get the machine centered and let it do its thing. It sounded like hammers beating on a hollow metal drum.
7. Once the Machine is done correcting my vision (which took all of 33 second!) he puts a drop of some kind of solution and reapplies the flap!
8. The Doctor uses little brushes to get all the bubbles out just like you would if you were applying vinyl or tint to your car.
9. Then a another drop of the antibacterial stuff and he rips away the tape promising me I will still have eye lashes and eyebrows lol.
10. Then he just repeats the same thing for the other eye.
Nothing was very painful during the whole thing but just mostly uncomfortable. It was very strange though because you are awake for the whole thing watching the laser and the doctor use his tools on your eyes!
So here it goes!
So when you first get there you sign the final papers and they double make sure you are not allergic to anything, then proceed to give you a valium for pain and some antibiotic eye drops.
After about 5 minutes the nurse came back and gave me more drops.
About another 5-10 minutes later I can start to feel the valium doing its work and also about that time the Doctor comes in, I am pretty sure they have this whole thing timed.
first they sit you in a chair that is laid back. Then the real fun starts!
1. They put a suction cup device on the right eye to get the eye centered. This I would have to say was the most uncomfortable part of the whole surgery for the suction cup device is put under you eye lids and seals your eye ball in one position.
2. They then move the chair under the machine on the left and it presses down on the suction device and started to make the cuts for the flap.
3. Then they take the suction cup off and repeat the process on the left eye.
4.Now that my lenses are cut they move me under the second machine that is the laser that corrects your vision!
5. They tape the eye lids up and down so you cannot blink and moves the flap down.
6. Then they get the machine centered and let it do its thing. It sounded like hammers beating on a hollow metal drum.
7. Once the Machine is done correcting my vision (which took all of 33 second!) he puts a drop of some kind of solution and reapplies the flap!
8. The Doctor uses little brushes to get all the bubbles out just like you would if you were applying vinyl or tint to your car.
9. Then a another drop of the antibacterial stuff and he rips away the tape promising me I will still have eye lashes and eyebrows lol.
10. Then he just repeats the same thing for the other eye.
Nothing was very painful during the whole thing but just mostly uncomfortable. It was very strange though because you are awake for the whole thing watching the laser and the doctor use his tools on your eyes!
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