http://www.eyeprocedure.com/blog/what-do-you-see-when-you-have-laser-eye-surgery/ Fri, 18 May 2012 00:31:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.eyeprocedure.com/blog/what-do-you-see-when-you-have-laser-eye-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Mommabear Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:16:11 +0000 http://www.eyeprocedure.com/blog/what-do-you-see-when-you-have-laser-eye-surgery/#comment-229 The doctor will first freeze your eye, then gently put a metal ring just inside the eyelids. This ring keeps the eye from moving. To signal the brain about what you see, the rods and cones in your retinas have to use up chemicals they've got stockpiled. Normally, your eyes are constantly flickering, to move the image around on your retinas so the rods and cones can replenish their supplies. If you keep hitting the same ones with an image, they'll run out of their stash and you'll start to see a purplish haze instead. This is what happens a few seconds after your eye is immobilized, your vision changes to a blank purplish color. You see nothing until the laser is turned on, then you just see the green dot. You will hear a zapping and may smell a "hair burning" smell. This is normal. How long the zapping lasts depends upon the correction level. I was -5 diopters and the zapping lasted about 45 seconds. Afterwards I wondered what I had been so worried about, and seeing the alarm clock the next morning made it all worth it! Good luck with your surgery. The doctor will first freeze your eye, then gently put a metal ring just inside the eyelids. This ring keeps the eye from moving. To signal the brain about what you see, the rods and cones in your retinas have to use up chemicals they’ve got stockpiled. Normally, your eyes are constantly flickering, to move the image around on your retinas so the rods and cones can replenish their supplies. If you keep hitting the same ones with an image, they’ll run out of their stash and you’ll start to see a purplish haze instead.
This is what happens a few seconds after your eye is immobilized, your vision changes to a blank purplish color. You see nothing until the laser is turned on, then you just see the green dot.
You will hear a zapping and may smell a “hair burning” smell. This is normal. How long the zapping lasts depends upon the correction level. I was -5 diopters and the zapping lasted about 45 seconds.
Afterwards I wondered what I had been so worried about, and seeing the alarm clock the next morning made it all worth it!
Good luck with your surgery.

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