This story is for my family and friends who wonder what it is like to go through a lasic eye surgery vision correction procedure. I've shared my experiences with one or two colleagues at work that have also had lasic eye surgery done, and you will find enough variations to give insight to those who are trying to choose between various lasic eye surgery physicians or various lasic eye surgery centers.
First, my lasic eye surgery process was scheduled for 4 PM in the afternoon, which was fine with me. One of the directions for patient that has just had a lasic eye surgery process was to go to sleep as soon as possible, in order for the healing procedure to begin as rapidly as possible. And usually by the end from the afternoon I am too tired right after working all day to be really nervous. Well, generally anyway.
I had only been there a few minutes when I was known as into a space to prepare me for that lasic eye surgery procedure, and to get instructions (again!) on how to care for my eyes once the lasic eye surgery vision correction has been done. They offered me some Ativan, which is really a mild sedative just to keep me calm during the lasic eye surgery procedure. The lasers themselves monitor any head or eye movement and turn themselves off when it occurs, so it isn't that the sedative is for anything other than psychological reasons. I took it anyway. All of my colleagues at function also took it, though none of us really felt any various than we did prior to. Apparently it is a Very mild sedative.
My eyes had been prepared for that lasic eye surgery process by being dosed with eye numbing drops and some kind of medication. I cannot be sure from the other pre-operative steps, as I think I was trying really difficult not to think about either lasic eye surgery or my eyes. Perhaps the sedative was a bit stronger than I imagined it was.
At this point I was escorted into one more space for some time, where I sat back, listened towards the piped-in music, and awaited my turn in the lasic eye surgery operating space. There had been two other people waiting with me in this room, so apparently my doctor different setup for his lasic eye surgery patients than my colleagues. Both were alone in their pre-op rooms until they were escorted into the space exactly where the lasic eye surgery procedure was actually performed.
As to the lasic eye surgery procedure itself, all of us have similar memories from this process. Each of us felt some pressure when the various lasic eye surgery implements were used on our eyes, although there wasn't any actual discomfort or pain. There was a blurring of vision for that eye being worked on, but the actual sensation was mainly audio - the whirring and clicks from the machine. One of my friends also remembers a distinct smell, somewhat reminiscent of hair burning. There might have been a slight smell during my lasic eye surgery procedure, but it wasn't substantial enough for my attention to become focused on it.
After a short amount of time, my lasic eye surgery physician said he was done and that I had been a great patient. In all of our lasic eye surgery experiences, the operation itself was much simpler than all of our worries about it beforehand. I hope this helps those of you considering having a lasic eye surgery process done.
