can laser eye surgery regress?
About 14 years ago I had Laser surgery(the russian Technique where the cornea is cut like a knife) on my left eye. A few years later I had the right eye done(using a different technique, cornea is molded). Today(aged 40) my right eye has completly regressed and I am required to wear glasses again. Is regression common in laser surgery and could it be due to other factors such as my age? There doesn't seem to be much information on the web about people having to go back to glasses after they had laser surgery.
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Its not really "regression", its just your sight changing as you get older. Refractive surgery does not prevent these changes.
The patients I have seen with RK (the procedure you had on your left eye) have not regressed, they have advanced. They had a minus prescription before their surgery, now they have a plus one. Laser surgery does sometimes regress a little. It is perfectly normal for people at age 40 to require glasses to read. Having refractive surgery does not change this.
If your eye with RK is better than your laser eye, you are very unusual.
I would say its due to age as 40 is the age where presbyopia is believed to begin and even laser eye surgery doesnt stop this naturally occuring symptom.
Options are wearing contacts or a further procedure such as blended vision
hiya, i had lasik about 12 yrs ago when i was about 21 and they told me then that i should be fine until about my mid 40's where i might start needing reading glasses. All due to eyes changing with age like any other normal eyes do. Still so worth it though!
this may be a query you will ought to ask the first practitioner. Myopes do no longer frequently elect to be overcorrected to being farsighted however, so i might warning you against that. And your creative and prescient WILL visit pot later in lifestyles in spite of the laser. finally you will elect interpreting glasses, finally you will strengthen cataracts, and so on and so on.