is there a laser eye surgery for rapid eye movement and nearsightedness?
Chris H asked:
i am near sighted and have rapid eye movement would it be possible for me to get lasic eye surgery
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i am near sighted and have rapid eye movement would it be possible for me to get lasic eye surgery
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 am
That mostly depends on what you mean by “rapid eye movement”. I suspect you don’t mean the eye movements during deep sleep (”REM sleep”) — are you talking about nystagmus, which is involuntary rhythmic eye movements? For the rest of my answer, I’m assuming you do in fact have nystagmus.
There’s a few problems with this. First off, you’d need to go to a big laser centre with an upgraded eye tracker on their laser so that, during surgery, your eye movements can be compensated for. Some surgeons have this equipment but still don’t feel comfortable operating on people with nystagmus because the results may not be as good, and a complication in one eye’s surgery could potentially make the eye movements worse. Secondly, your reduced vision may be from the nystagmus, at least in part, which would mean the vision may not improve to a normal ‘20/20′ level after surgery. Thirdly, it’s possible that you aren’t nearsighted but have been given nearsighted glasses to help your vision by reducing the eye motion, meaning the laser surgery might not help either. Not being able to see your eyes, I don’t know, but even if everything else is fine, it might take some work to find a surgeon who’s familiar enough with these sorts of things to be comfortable.
Long story short, it’s not impossible, but it sounds like your eyes are complicated. Your best bet will be going in to talk to a surgeon at a major laser surgery centre near you — most places here have free consultations — and get some definite answers based on examining your eyes. Adam
November 25th, 2009 at 4:35 am
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