My Position on LASIK Surgery

LASIK surgery is becoming more and more common. So today I want to talk about an article that came out discussing the side effects people have when they get LASIK and weigh the pros and cons of the surgery with you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. Article: Blurred Vision, Burning Eyes: This Is a Lasik Success? SUMMARY KEYWORDS LASIK surgery, eye, prescription, article, physical therapy, nearsighted, surgery, vision, patients, talk, eyesight, integrate, fda, brain, close, surgeon, correct, LASIK glasses, LASIK Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to my EyeClarity Podcast. Today I want to talk about LASIK surgery. But the way I'm going to do this is I'm going to bring up an article that was published in 2018 in The New York Times, and the title of the article is blurred vision, burning eyes. This is LASIK success. Now, I can go into the hundreds, probably 1000s of patients that I've treated over the years, who have had LASIK surgery, and then they've had side effects afterward. And I think I'll do that towards the end of the show today. But right now, I want to talk a little bit about this article because it was very revealing, in that, you know, LASIK surgery, although it has been around for a long time. In fact, the FDA approved the first lasers in the 1990s. And according to the article, almost 10 million Americans have had lasik eye surgery as a quick fix to get rid of glasses and contacts. And as far back as 2008. People were complaining after LASIK surgery, they had blurry vision, they had chronic pain, they had dry eyes. And there were both reports in the short term and long term risks and complications of lasik surgery. And in the article, they talk about 1/3 of the people at least who they reported on had serious discomfort in terms of dry eyes, blurred vision, difficulty seeing at night. And, you know, although although the FDA certainly is approved this particular surgery, there are outcomes that are less than, let's say, easy to deal with. In the article they talked about patients who suffer chronic halos excessive glare, difficulty seeing at night. And in some cases, people who got the monovision type of LASIK surgery, they even had more problems. Now, you've heard my report on mono vision in many video blogs, podcasts, written blogs. And whenever you correct one eye for distance and one eye for near, you're setting up a situation where your brain is definitely going to be confused. It's almost a double vision type scenario. Because if you think about it, let's say the right eye is your dominant eye. And that's the eye you're deciding to drive with, that's going to be correcting you for distance, and your left eye is your reading eye. And that's going to be correcting you for near that when you go to look in the distance your left eye is not engaging with the right eye. So this eliminates depth perception. At the same token, let's say you're on your screen for a few hours every day, while your left eye is carrying the load pretty much by itself because the right eye has fixed its focal point in the distance. So what the brain has to do at that point is suppress one of the eyes in order to see. So there's a gentleman who is quoted in the article,