Before You Let Them Cut on Your Eyes.wmv

Anyone considering Lasik should carefully consider what can go wrong and the odds of something going wrong, and should understand how the economics of the Lasik industry can cause them harm. There is a new video specific to the Wolfe Eye Clinic at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJW2UYUK_nI .

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• lasik
• wolfe eye clinic
• lasik complications

[joebtye3]

My answer is too long to post here but if you send me an email to tye.joe@gmail.com I'll send it to you. Bottom line is that you are taking a very big gamble with your most precious physical resource - your eyes - and because of the Lasik industry code of silence you can never tell the good docs from the bad ones.

[joebtye3]

I had double vision when both eyes were open because I had latent strabismus before the surgery - a condition that they should have checked for (I've seen several medical journal articles saying that every Lasik candidate should be checked for this, but most are not). I'm very sorry to hear about yours. It sounds like they might have programmed the laser wrong if they burned a line through your iris.

[joebtye3]

I am really sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, too many lasik docs who have a profound financial conflict of interest seriously downplay the dangers, and maintain a state of deliberate and militant ignorance regarding the harm they are doing to innocent people. The next time I do this video, I will not tell people that I'm not trying to talk them out of it, i will say that the risks are so severe that in most cases they are not worth taking. Good luck in finding some relief!!

[LASIKComplications]

@joebtye3 Is there something I can say or do to motivate you to make that new video now? :) I will put you on the front page of LasikComplications for a period of time.

[joebtye3]

@LASIKComplications I'll work on it. For anyone who watches this video, when I do the next one I will NOT say that I'm not going to try and talk you out of Lasik. Since doing this video I've heard so many horror stories, and seen the unethical side of this business, that I believe the risk is far out of proportion to any possible benefit.

[joebtye3]

@LASIKComplications This is newest video - with more to come: youtube.com/watch?v=AJW2UYUK_n­I . Comments welcome!

Joe

[crvc56]

@joebtye3

Hi Joe,

I had LASIK 15 years ago then PRK 7 years ago. I still have lousy night vision because of starbursts. Recently I spent $5k on scleral contacts that did not fix the starbursts. Now I find I have subepithelial scar tissue that might be the root cause of starbursts. More surgery is not an option so I'm kinda screwed for life.

kevin

[SaysSim0n]

I was considering it.

but now im split cause ..

did alot of research and im not sure anymore.

lets say i find a top of the tops doc who is i mean like really experianced and i know that my eyes are fine for the procedure and i pass him over some money beside so that he will take extra care....still to risky to do it?

cause i mainly hear about cases where ppl were not "in the condition"

sry for my bad english but i think you get the point

would be nice if you could send me a honest response

[007foppe]

ow should have told also my left eye has double vision i know why now cause of my iris they burned a line trough it plz answer me cause you say you have double vision ,with one eye, ?

[007foppe]

my left eye fucked yes -_- the clinic looked very trustful and also more expensive as other clinics :(