June 23rd, 2009

Lasik diaries, day 6

  • Jun. 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Rolling
Woo. Finally finished off the last of my antibiotics. There's still a little bit of the steroid solution left.
Halos are almost completely gone. Night vision is back to normal (and crisper than contacts, very cool). I'm still routinely amazed at how now I can pick out individual leaves on trees and can see the grain of a marker on a whiteboard from across the room. It's like someone increased all of my texture resolutions ^^

Pain/itchiness is hardly ever a problem (though yesterday I got an eyelash in my eye, that was pretty annoying, and it seems like the more saline solution I dump in my eye the more likely I am to stick bend another eyelash into a funky position). Tonight will be the first night I get to stop using the plastic eye guards when I sleep (yay! haven't been sleeping too well with those things stuck on). I think my brain/muscles/something is still adjusting to this new super-vision because I seem to be getting headaches after looking at the screen for a few hours. It might be that I'm still sensitive to glare. I'm not sure... my new minimum focal distance seems to be about 10cm, so it doesn't seem like my monitor would be too close (it's at about 50cm usually, but right now I've pushed it back as far as I can on my desk). Anyway, hopefully that gets better. Apparently my vision is expected to fluctuate for the first 3 months or so, so I might buy some of those $1 granny-style reading glasses while my eyes reprogram their microcontrollers so to speak. Or would glasses screw with the retraining? I dunno. Maybe I should go for ibuprofen instead? I'll have to ask tomorrow at my 1 week post-op exam.

Only other complaint is dry eyes in the morning when I wake up (eyes feel "sticky" and hard to open until I put in some eye drops), but in theory this should keep getting better. On the plus side I've gotten pretty damn good at aiming eye drops into my eyes now =P

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