PreOp® Patient Education Opthamology: PRK Laser Eye Surgery

Modern excimer Laser surface ablations are totally painless during the procedure as well as in the follow ups. However the vision will recover fully in 3 to 4 days, unlike Lasik where it is few hours. However it is a boon for those with thinner corneas & aberrations.

Well , I got that part . They could have just used numbing drops .

he said he needed something stronger since he was gonna operate with a laser
(the only thing they used numbing drops on me was for checking eye pressure) =P

when i say "numb", after he gave me the shot, my eye got lazy, slowly drifted away from whatever i focused on, basically losing any control over it.

Well , i guess everything comes with a price then eventually you have some reward . Was the recovery bad ?

nope. everything was fine afterwards, i only had to wear an eyepatch tilll the next day =)

but i had to wait a while in between each eye they worked on. one day i get 2 shots in my right eye and then get it lasered, then 2 or 3 weeks later they do the same to my other eye

Ok , I am just curious to learn about this kind of stuff because I want to be a pilot and they are very strict about eye sight . Thanks

did it take away the pain though?!? i mean it mightve hurt

YEAH IT FUCKIN HURT! I HAVEN'T FELT ANYTHING SO PAINFUL IN MY LIFE!!! >=(

but thats just the 2 shots in the eye, i don't feel anything during the laser part. =P

The needle hurt but then U felt OK during laser, right? Still eyes R very sensitive

yup! didn't feel anything during the laser ^_^