Doctors recommend avoiding LASIK. New FDA warnings in 2023.

For years the media has reported that LASIK may not be as safe as advertised based on the many patients LASIK has left injured, disabled, or even dead. Before you get LASIK, get the whole story. The real rate of poor outcomes is about 20%. 0:00 Some doctors who are not profiting from the procedure recommend that patients avoid LASIK. 0:14 Morris Waxler was the FDA official in charge of LASIK’s original approval process. He now believes the procedure should be pulled off the market entirely. 0:31 The FDA is developing new, strong warnings regarding LASIK in response to the thousands upon thousands of MedWatch reports submitted by injured patients. 1:04 Complications from refractive surgery have led some patients to take their own lives. Further reading for your due diligence: Top 10 Reasons to Avoid LASIK https://visionadvocacy.org/10-reasons... New York Times: Blurred Vision, Burning Eyes: This Is a Lasik Success? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/we... Archived version: https://archive.ph/mXvJ5 Topography of LASIK cornea with poor night vision https://sclerallens.com/topography-of... Why do optometrists and ophthalmologists wear contacts/glasses? https://www.optiboard.com/forums/show... LASIK – A Laser that blinds and kills https://eyedocmackay.com/lasik-a-lase... LASIK reshapes your cornea to permanently create an optical zone for vision correction that is much smaller than the optical zone of contact lenses (6.5mm vs 8-10mm+ respectively). This means that even for an average sized pupil in the dark (~7mm) some induced higher order aberrations should be expected to cause halos/starbursts, but if you have large pupils this type of vision loss can be severe enough to make driving at night dangerous. An optical zone smaller than your pupil size means that when viewing dark scenes in movies or games anything bright like UI elements, characters, subtitles, etc will have an ugly glow effect around them. Higher order aberrations cannot be corrected by glasses or soft contacts. I’d also suggest researching some of the rare but devastating complications like corneal neuropathic pain that could leave you permanently disabled and unable to even sleep through the night. Here’s the scariest part: There’s apparently no way to predict which patients are at a higher risk of this complication in order to screen them out. It isn’t understood why this happens to certain patients. Refractive surgeries are like playing Russian Roulette not only with a patient’s eyes, but with their very lives. #lasik #lasereyesurgery #prk #iclsurgery