[0:00]
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 
[0:30]
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 
[1:01]
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 
[1:34]
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 
[2:06]
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 
[2:38]
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 
[3:11]
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