I had my one year visit last Friday. I was still not happy with my vision, it lacked sharpness and at night it was especially poor.
My surgeon evaluated my vision and side that my left needed no magnification change and my right eye was -.25 I asked if an enhancement would help me and he said that he would not do it or recommend it. He offered me a glasses prescription. I politely declined because I knew that in the absence of an enhancement I'd be going to another doc for contact lenses.
I went to another eye doc today for a contact lens exam. My surgeon was correct regarding my magnification prescription but never mentioned that I had .75 units of astigmatism in each eye. When the optometrist gave me a pair of lenses to correct the astigmatism my sight was perfect.
I'm happy to be able to see perfectly again but obviously disappointed to be back in corrective lenses. What really bothers me is that through the 4 visits I've had with my surgeon he never told me that my problem was astigmatism. Instead he kept repeating that my eyes were virtually perfect with only a -.25 in the right eye. I knew I couldn't see well and I was made to feel like I was making it up or something.
I'm left wondering why he did not tell me about my astigmatism. It was obvious immediately to the optometrist. Could my surgeon really not fix this with an enhancement? Did he make a mistake in the initial surgery? (I didn't need special contacts for astigmatism before the surgery)
Anyway I'm moving past all this I guess. I'm happy that I can see again and all in all I'm glad that I had lasik. At least I can get by without lenses for many things.