Comments on: Lasik Surgery Fears http://www.fitnesstipsforlife.com/1472.html Improve Your Life Through Better Fitness Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:11:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tina http://www.fitnesstipsforlife.com/1472.html#comment-4887 Tina Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:22:02 +0000 http://www.fitnesstipsforlife.com/1472.html#comment-4887 Thanks for this info. I had Lasik about five years ago, and didn't have any problems until the end of 2006, when I started seeing blurriness. I wasn't too concerned at the time, because the doctor who performed my surgery had a high success rate, and was considered one of the best surgeons in the area. I thought I just needed a touch-up and things should be fine. Turns out that I had ectasia - a LASIK-induced form of a preexisting corneal disease called keratoconus. Keratoconus causes the corneal tissue in your eye to start thinning out. It's hard to detect (out of all the specialists I saw, only one could point out where the problem might have originated). This condition began a nightmare of doctors visits, ongoing medical bills, and a major emotional toll on my life. Anyway, aside from the surgeon making a comment along the lines of "Your corneas are a little on the thin side, but it should be okay," I was never fully informed about the possible consequences (the internet wasn't as prevalent as it is now) and NEVER heard about this condition from any of the doctors that I went to to research Lasik Do you have any more information on that FDA study set to begin next year? Thanks for this info. I had Lasik about five years ago, and didn’t have any problems until the end of 2006, when I started seeing blurriness. I wasn’t too concerned at the time, because the doctor who performed my surgery had a high success rate, and was considered one of the best surgeons in the area. I thought I just needed a touch-up and things should be fine.

Turns out that I had ectasia - a LASIK-induced form of a preexisting corneal disease called keratoconus. Keratoconus causes the corneal tissue in your eye to start thinning out. It’s hard to detect (out of all the specialists I saw, only one could point out where the problem might have originated). This condition began a nightmare of doctors visits, ongoing medical bills, and a major emotional toll on my life.

Anyway, aside from the surgeon making a comment along the lines of “Your corneas are a little on the thin side, but it should be okay,” I was never fully informed about the possible consequences (the internet wasn’t as prevalent as it is now) and NEVER heard about this condition from any of the doctors that I went to to research Lasik

Do you have any more information on that FDA study set to begin next year?

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