Laser eye surgery: Post op symptoms for long-sightedness correction?
Peter M asked:
Hi. I was wondering what the general symptoms are for people who have had corrective laser eye surgery and whom were long sighted. I hear for short -sighted people their vision is near 20/20 almost immediately, whereas long-sighted people it takes a lot longer after the operation to get full vision clarity back. Is this the case?
So when do long-sighted people generally get the deisred level of vision after the operation? ! day, 1 week, 1 month?
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Hi. I was wondering what the general symptoms are for people who have had corrective laser eye surgery and whom were long sighted. I hear for short -sighted people their vision is near 20/20 almost immediately, whereas long-sighted people it takes a lot longer after the operation to get full vision clarity back. Is this the case?
So when do long-sighted people generally get the deisred level of vision after the operation? ! day, 1 week, 1 month?
I hear for long-sighted people who have it, it can be anything up to 12 months.
September 25th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Hi, my name is Dr. Jay Lustbader, and I am an ophthalmologist with LasikPlus.
People who are far-sighted (hyperopia) do take longer to achieve their best vision after Lasik than people who are near-sighted (myopia). However, many do see quite well in the early postoperative period—-it just takes longer to achieve the final level of visual acuity.
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