I am 5 days out after surgery. My experience is like piecing a puzzle of various other users' comments together. My vision history is basically glasses since I...
Takes time. I am going on 2 weeks now and my vision has improved immensely. I was worried in the beginning because it was difficult to see at night (with...
Hey guys, i suffer from pretty bad dry eye on daily basis,im considering icl but want to know if the procedure makes dry eye worse. Has anyone expierinced long...
Make sure you talk to your doctor and let him know you have severe dry eye. I have it and the doctor said it was not a problem in my case. In fact, it would...
I still have dry eye even after a year after icl surgery. I tried restasis but it made my eyes red and diidnt help. I just use artificial tears now when...
When I went for my ICL consultation, I discussed my severe dry eye problem with the doctor. Restasis alone was not helping me. He recommended tear duct drain...
I second the tear duct plugs too. I have them in my bottom ducts but had to get the top ones removed because of excessive tearing that wore away the skin...
OK, today I went in for my YAG iridotomies in both eyes. it went about like many here describe. a few drops in the eyes and I rested my head in chin and...
Quick update. I'm now a week and a half post surgery. My eyes still need time to stabilize, I think, but my left eye went down from 20/15 to around 20/40 and...
Hey Robert, Thanks for your reply, just curious if you had any dry eye issues prior to the icl surgery? Was the it visian or versieye? thanks heaps tc ... ...
Hey Nancy, your detailed responce is much appreciated, and it sounds like you were expiernceing exactly what i am, i actually have had the punctual plugs...
Hey Mary, I'm gonna ask about restasis see if it will help in my case, thank you for ur responce, much apprecaited:D ... dry eye. I have it and the doctor...
Thanks for your reply, much apprecaited:D ... but had to get the top ones removed because of excessive tearing that wore away the skin outside the corner of my...
[Edited to remove Dr. Name. -Mod] Ok.. So I'm totally freaked out because I found a you tube video of an ICL Surgery in China.. It looked totally barbaric....
For what it is worth, pretty much every surgery looks barbaric to me. There's entirely too much squishy stuff in the human body for it to look civilized. :)...
Yes, adding the upper plugs definitely made an improvement. I think there was about two weeks between insertion of the two sets. They measured my tears both...
... an ICL Surgery in China.. It looked totally barbaric. Anyone here had their Surgery in LA? ... I am scheduled for my surgery on the 14th also. I wouldn't...
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm still planning on going on with the surgery. I have been wearing glasses since I was 11 years old and have been hindered...
[Link replaced with neutral Wikipedia link. --mod] Hi, Here's a precise list of 5 questions I hope to get answered: 1) Did any of you suffer from corneal...
... I hated messing with all the solutions and cleaning and stuff. Plus the ability to see the alarm clock in the morning. ... They CAN and do close over,...
Hello - I hope it's OK for me to post an off-topic question here. I read this group regularly because I want/plan to get ICLs, but (as I learned here) I...
To answer your questions : I'm 47 years old and I had toric ICL's implanted in August 2007 here in Belgium. ... That was the reason I completely stopped...
I have a pair of them that I ordered off the internet from [an online Canadian website --mod]. I spoke to the optician that runs it and everything was pretty...
First, in reply to Michael Dwyer: Thanks a lot for the post you wrote. I guess you're right: Retinal detachment remains a problem simply due to the shape of my...
[I found another old message sitting in the list's queues. Sorry for the delay. -mod] ... I just found this an article where it says: "(Laser) peripheral...
Hey 'unoder', ... It might have been introduced, it might not, but my eye pressures were only once or twice measured on examinations the year before I had the...
I had my right eye done yesterday morning and am doing very well ! the surgery only took 9 minutes I was told. the doctor did decide to add a limbal relxing...
Congrats Greg! I, too, was seeing 20/25 the morning after my first ICL. At last check, about six months ago, which was 3 months after the surgeries, I was...
OMG I can see. My vision is a little blurry, but I can see. I have my post op this afternoon. So. I arrived around 12:30 at the surgery center. They put...
Melissa, glad your eyes are doing good! at least they did both eyes so you don't have to get sick again. I was never given an IV just Versed orally which I...
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