LASIK has people unaliving themselves
you know the eye surgery gets
so that you can see better and you don't have to wear glasses
like the very serious surgery that we'd
that we also don't see a lot of optometrists getting
like you ever notice when you go to get your eyes checked
that your optometrist are wearing glasses
they're not getting the eye surgery
I have heard so many times that there's a reason for that
so halos double vision
severe eye pain or all things that patients who are getting LASIK are reporting
like at higher rates every year
just
more and more people are reporting that they are having these chronic issues
some people are saying that they are in such bad pain and it is going under
like there's nothing you can do about it
that they are literally unaliving themselves because they cannot
they can't be free of the pain
a quick story time for you about some of the
like mean girl click girls in my office when I worked there
um we were talking about this one day
and they were asking why they were asking why I wouldn't consider LASIK
and I said that I had considered it
but I did a lot of investigating
there was actually one person that stopped me from wanting to get it
and there was a Detroit meteorologist that had like
an eye surgery corrective eye surgery to
so she wouldn't have to wear glasses
and this is her husband if anyone would have told me or my family
and said that she was capable of hurting herself
I wouldn't have believed you
something related to this procedure triggered this
although the mother of two had been told
the procedure would only take about five days to recover from
her husband said that within three or four days of the procedure
she started saying stuff like
I think something went wrong
I don't feel right he came home after that first day
fell into my arms and started crying
he said as the difficulties continued
um she went to five different ophthalmologists
who said she just needed more time to recover
I think this procedure sent her into such a dark space
her husband said detailing the notebook that she kept at the time
she wrote that because of the loss of her vision
I can't be a mom I can't be a wife
I can't work I've lost every aspect of my life
I'm really mad at myself for doing this
I don't know why I was fine with contacts
glasses weren't that big of a deal
it was fine I tell these mean girls at the office about this
and they literally were like well
I mean that's probably really rare and not common
like first of all
it's a really tragic story
but that's that's your response
like you are willing to take that risk
like I get like
maybe one day things will improve and the science will improve
and the the procedure will improve and get better
but right now it is such a scary
scary risk because of all of these cases
on the rise of this happening
the FDA is actually looking at redoing their guidelines
because they have approved LASIK
some people are saying that the pain is worse than childbirth
and there are online groups
so this woman Paula Kofer
who founded one
said that there are thousands of members discussing their postlasic experiences
um and she said the increase in members follows the publicized cases
like that of Detroit TV meteorologist Jessica Starr
I think it is really really important that more
that just as many people that know about what LASIK is and what it does for you
that those people also know the very real complications that can happen
and the risks
and the implications of those risks if you go in and you get the surgery
so um
I think they just need to be a lot more vocal about that