Yesterday (12th August) had Smile. It's not that bad as everybody says.
Alright, I had severe astigmatism, around -4.75 and -5.00 in my eyes, along with -2.50 myopia in both eyes.
I got the surgery, and to be honest, the surgery itself was the hardest part. I had some compliance issues because my eyes kept wandering around, but my doctor was extremely careful with me. At one point, after finishing my right eye, he actually paused and said, “You can stop if you want. We can refund you. There’s no pressure if it’s that difficult.”
During the surgery, when he told me to look at the green dot, I absolutely nailed it with my right eye. With my left eye, though, even though I thought I was looking directly at the green dot, he said I wasn’t. He would also tell me to look at my feet, and even when I thought I was doing exactly that, he would tell me I wasn’t. So it was pretty tiring for both of us.
Then came the lenticule extraction. He seemed to spend quite a bit longer on it than with other patients, and at one point I heard him say to his co-surgeon, “It’s so elastic, it doesn’t come out.”
After all that, he said we were done and that the surgery had been successful.
The first three hours were honestly great. I’d say my vision was already around 60% better immediately after leaving the clinic. Then, I guess as the local anesthesia wore off, I started getting a pretty intense burning sensation in both eyes. I slept for about five hours, and when I woke up, I had no pain anymore.
I’m currently on day two and using all of my prescribed drops. I’m guessing the slight haze I have is from the normal postoperative corneal swelling and healing, because I can already see the clock on the wall and read it. Before the surgery, I couldn’t even make out the numbers properly because they would basically disappear into the background.
Right now, my vision has a slight haze to it. If you play video games, the best way I can describe it is like setting the resolution scale to 90%. Everything is there and recognizable, but there’s some softness and a slight bloom around the edges of words and objects.
From what I understand, this is expected this early after surgery, but I’ll be having my check-up with my doctor today, so I’ll find out how everything is healing.
Still, after wearing glasses for over 15 years, it feels pretty surreal to finally be free of them. I started wearing glasses at 11 with around -1.75 astigmatism and -1.25 myopia, so seeing this much without glasses already feels absolutely ridiculous.
Hopefully the slight haze continues to clear as my eyes heal.
Edit:
Just came out of the doctor's office, he said normally after 1 day post op they expect a %70 vision but I scored %90 and surprised him. There is a suction bleeding top of my eyeball because of the complication and it should clear itself as he said.
Doing %90 on 1 day post is impressive he said and my bloom and blur should clear up gradually till next week.