OK, it's been a month since I last posted, and I'm 2.5 weeks post-op on my right eye. Sorry not to have written sooner. I've had the flu, moved into a bigger house, and am now working shifts. So it's been a bit crazy.
Anyway, the right eye surgery went fine. Same deal as the left. However, pretty much immediately, it was obvious that the vision wasn't as good. If you remember, my right eye is my dominant eye and sees much better than my left. Well, I was only getting somewhere between 20/30 and 20/40 a week after the surgery. Not bad, but not what I was expecting. So at the one week exam, I asked for a glasses prescription. Apparently, what's going on is that my astigmatism is limiting my ability to see clearly. Essentially, the corrective power of the Visian lens is right, but it did nothing to fix my astigmatism. The Visian lens is approved for up to 2.5 cylinders (I think that's how it's measured) of astigmatism. I have 1.0 cylinder in my right eye, so I didn't think it was an issue. Apprently it is.
So now I am wearing a light pair of glasses for my astigmatism. It's annoying, but mostly that I'm a little confused as to how I have arrived here. It was suggested to me that this wouldn't be a problem. Well, it is. We should be able to correct it with Lasik sometime in the next few months, but I would really have preferred not to do another surgery.
Secondly, I am having substantial problems with night halos. Driving at night is an adventure, to say the least. I see a light halo around all lights, but at the edge of the halo is a bright circle that causes the problems. I understand that this could lessen over time, and that there are drops that can help lessen these effects. I'm hoping that this resolves itself, or at least calms down a bit.
So I am not as happy as I had hoped to be. I'm feeling a bit misled, and I'm surprised by the halos because by all accounts that is not one of the normal side effects of this surgery. I have heard of some who have some halo problems, but not to this extent. We'll see how things develop over the next few weeks. I have my one month post op in two weeks, and hopefully my sight will have stabilized and my course of action will be "clearer" then. Pun intended.
