PRK was done in 2019. Have spent over 20k$ in things post procedure due to side effects
Hey guys I got my prk procedure done in 2019 key Whitman Dallas Tx
Post procedure I probably had a 2 month recovery period before my vision as a beyond perfect 20/10
I still have the 20/10 vision now
Although now I deal with dry eye issues and convergence inefficiency
I started to have the side effects probably a year and a half after the surgery. I explained all my symptoms to key Whitman although they just looked at me like I was silly. They read my chard that I was 20/10 and said nothing is wrong with me. Although my issue was never vision it was the dry eye and the split vision.
Let me just say that you should never just take any doctors word for anything. I have been to 20 different eye doctors and specialists. I explain my symptoms to each of the 20 doctors and even though they’ve got degrees in this stuff they all will come up with a different explanation. It just goes to show how little is actually known about the side effects you will deal with getting this procedure.
I eventually came across a dry eye specialist after 6 years of going through different doctors.
Basically my dry eye was due to my mibomean glands being very much desalinated. I only have half of the glands left in my left eye and about 10% in my right eye. I would constantly just spend on all kinds of eye drops to get relief. I went through mibo xydra and whatever else you can get your hands on. They don’t really do anything I get that feeling reading posts on here. I see tons of people that they try them and nothing.
I ended up doing tixel treatments on my eyes and the specialist there said I developed ocular rosacea…. But she claims it cleared up with the treatments. The dry eye is still not fixed. I do not believe it will ever be good. I believe it will get worse as people develop dry eye as they age. I have a twin brother and he can no longer use contacts as we are now 30 and I guess age just does that to you. Although I believe my issues will be 20x his issues when we are 60….
Anyways after going through all these treatments with the dry eye specialist I still deal with split vision. My dry eye specialist referred me out to a split vision specialist after milking all her options. What I was told by three doctors is I need glasses to help my eyes relax…. (Each doctor also gave me a different perspcription by the way makes 0 sense to me) But it did not matter my vision still split. Even then I brought up vision therapy one of the recommendations was strabismus surgery(I did research on split vision the first recommendation is vision therapy)…. Yeah heck no I’m not doing another surgery. And then I was offered prisms but also I do not want to do that I’ve read it makes my split vision worse with no glasses.
And now we come to the present timeline. Dry eye doctor sends me to split vision specialist. Right away her recommendation is an online vision therapy course that will be 3 months long. I am 4 days into it and she claims I will be cured of the split vision by the end of the course. I will come back on here and say whether it did or not. I am hopeful but expect to be let down as I always am.
Moral of the story everyone do not get lasik/prk
Anyone that tells you it’s great is not thinking long term
We all will definitely need cataract surgery decades before we would have had we not gotten the procedure done
Any salesman that works in this industry 🖕 here you go. You do not know what you are selling and are not aware of the side effects. The surgeon who will perform your surgery will walk in wearing glasses. They do this for a living and know it’s no good.
And good luck to everyone else who is in my situation hopefully you have deep pockets and decent insurance you will need it.