Thanks for the feedback guys! IR45N, I find it funny that I still think I have to 'do my contacts' before going to bed at night. And yet I adjusted very quickly to being able to see everything clearly when I open my eyes each morning! I love it!!
BigJack, Verisyse is considerably more than Lasik because it is a more complicated procedure. The cost of Lasik would have been $2200 per eye if I could have gone that route. Verisyse was $3700 per eye. The freedom to not have to wear glasses or contacts is worth the cost! As far as the month off training, given the length of time I'd like to be around on this planet, its nothing.
OneO and BigJack, the procedure itself lasted no more than 30 minutes per eye (probably not more than 15-20 but I didn't have a watch on). The area around the eye is cleaned, and then they use something sticky to grab the upper eyelashes and open the eye. Whatever it is that is sticky also has a plastic sheet attached to it. A hole is cut in the sheet so your face is covered and just the eye is exposed. A speculum is put in the upper and lower eyelids to hold the eye open. It sounds odd but isn't that bad.
Plenty of numbing drops are used and sure enough, I didn't feel anything. I only knew when the lens went in when the light above me suddenly went
very clear. Amazing! More numbing drops were put in my eye and then the sutures went in. I only know they were doing this by listening to the conversation. I had to keep looking down towards my feet for him to put in the sutures and this can be boring when all you see is your nose under the plastic sheeting! Once the sutures were done I saw this orange stuff getting rubbed on the eye. Turns out this checks for leaks. Everything was great so they rinsed the eye and were done.
When the speculum was removed I had this temporary feeling like I'd been punched in the face. It only lasted a few seconds. A clear shield was taped to my face to protect the eye and I was taken to the recovery area. Things were hazy and I was told it would last 5-6 hours. It actually lasted much less and I was watching tv with my left eye that night. By the next morning things were great!
About three days after the surgery there was a vein in my eye (it was fairly red and could easily be seen) that gave me a feeling of having an eyelash in my eye. As long as I kept my eye well lubricated it wasn't so bad. The office is overly air-conditioned and the eyelash-in-the-eye feeling was at its worst when I was at work. The feeling lasted four days and then the vein disappeared, taking the feeling with it. I did not experience this with the right eye by the way.
One of the post-surgery eye drops I was given had a steroid in it. Turns out I'm a steroid responder as it caused an increase in pressure when used in both eyes (took two days longer for the response in the right eye). The increase in pressure caused my vision to go a bit blurry. They advised me to stop using those drops and gave me some to reduce the pressure. Everything returned to normal within a day of stopping the one eye drop and using the other to reduce pressure.
Its a good thing I like sleeping on my back because for two weeks after each eye is done a shield had to be worn on my face to protect the eye. The left eye no longer needs the shield and tonight is the final night for the right eye. You can somewhat sleep on your side but it is pretty much impossible to get completely on your side with plastic on your face! Oh well, like the time off from training, its just for a short time!
Hopefully that explains things a bit more. If there are more questions please let me know and I'll be glad to answer.
Intraocular lenses (Verisyse)...I got them!
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