Health Issues

If waking up and being able to see is something you dream about, only to wake up every morning staring at a beeping red blur, then, you might want to consider LASIK surgery.

LASIK surgery is Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis. It is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea using a laser. They use a laser to cut a flap in your cornea revealing the stroma. They use lasers to reshape the stroma, and replace the cornea. This procedure can give you the vision that you always wished to have. You could walk out of that doctors office, and after a few weeks of healing, have 20/20 vision. Of course, there are no guarantees.

Some patients experience a loss of vision. They will lose lines of vision with an eye chart, and this is not correctable using lenses. So, if your vision today is correctable by lenses, this may not be worth the risk for you. The development of glare, halos, and blurriness are also possible complications of the surgery. Some patients develop dry eye syndrome and have to use eye drops. To top it all off, you may pay for the surgery, go through the surgery, and still need corrective lenses. With this list of complications, you would think that people would avoid this surgery unless it was necessary for them in their job. However, the FDA website warns that getting the surgery can put your job at risk, because some places have policies against having the surgery.

So, basically going into this surgery to correct your vision is putting your vision at risk. You can just wear glasses, or contacts to correct your lenses, and yes those methods do have their minor annoyances, but compared to the horrors listed above, they are nothing. I think that I will continue my daily blurry battle with the glowing red monster, I mean, honestly I set the alarm. I know what time it is going to go off. I dont really need to see it.