If you can’t read what’s in front of your face, or you can’t see anything more than a foot away from you, you might be considering Lasic Eye Surgery to correct the problem. That would be a mistake. Don’t fumble around looking for your glasses. Read this article to find our how to improve your eyesight without surgery.

A procedure that permanently changes the clear covering of the front of the eye, called the cornea, is Lasik surgery. Medical term is Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis. This popular surgery promises miracles, like having 20/20 vision afterward. If this sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is. 95% of people are satisfied with the surgery. That is according to the industry, not the patients.

The F.D.A’s website lists some of the risks of Lasik surgery. They are: debilitating visual symptoms such as glare, halos, double vision or having worse night vision than you did before the surgery. Others are loss of vision lines on a vision chart that can’t be corrected with glasses, contacts or additional surgery. If you need additional treatment, that may not be possible and you’ll still need glasses or contacts.

If you develop dry eye syndrome after Lasic Eye Surgery, it can reduce visual quality as well as being uncomfortable. The condition may be permanent. If you have large refractive errors, the surgical results are not so good. If you’re farsighted, the improvement you got with surgery may diminish with age. Because Lasik is still a relatively new procedure, the long term safety and effectiveness is not known.

After Lasic Eye Surgery, some people who previously wore glasses for everyday use and glasses for reading, lose that option. They say it’s like keeping your contacts in and trying to read with them. This was reported in the New York Times, March 2008.

In 2006, the F.D.A. put together a task force to design a clinical trial to study the subject of Lasic Eye Surgery. Between 1998 and 2006, they received 140 negative reports and suspected many more were not being reported. Five to ten percent of adults who have the surgery need fine tuning afterward because Lasik can overcorrect or undercorrect the visual problem.

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