Instead of re-typing all this out, I'm pasting what I wrote in the comments section of this REDACTED video. I think this is a very important video worth sharing, so I am embedding it here in this post. More people need to know. To this day, I'm really grateful to my friend Karen, for letting me know about this issue. Without her warning, I would definitely have had the surgery, and I'm convinced the dryness in my eyes would have gotten WAY worse!
The LIES about LASIK eye surgery they DON'T want you to know | Redacted
This is the video... and I will paste my comment (and the story) below the video.
This is the gist of what I wrote in the comments....
So glad you guys brought this up... just one more reason I'm so glad I CANCELED my surgery.
In 2003 I was scheduled to have Lasik the NEXT DAY, when by crazy coincidence, my friend and roommate Karen, who JUST HAPPENED to work for the American Academy of Opthalmology, came home from work, with an article that had JUST come out THAT DAY. It said that there are a lot of people who get DRY EYES from lasik.... but it can depend on the TYPE of Lasik you get.
I learned there are 2 types of lasik. They cut your cornea like a can lid, leaving a hinge in 1 of 2 places. If they leave the hinge at the top of your eye, it's called a superior hinge, which means they will sever your cornea by the part where your tear ducts are, making you have a greater risk of having dry eyes. If they put the hinge by the SIDE, by the nose, it preserves your tear ducts, and you are at less of a risk of dry eyes.
I had never heard of this, and the doctor never discussed it with me. In the morning, I called the 2 people I knew, who had lasik. I called my friend Ann, a receptionist I used to work with. She remembered the "hinge" was on the side, so it was a nasal hinge... and she did NOT have dry eyes. The other person I called was my friend Eric. His doctor gave him a superior hinge, and he did have occasional dry eyes.
That was enough for me to think maybe this really did make a difference. I took the article to my lasik doctor and asked if he could do a nasal hinge instead of a superior hinge. He got all huffy and said they don't do nasal hinges, ONLY superior hinges. I swear he just wanted to do the SUPERIOR hinge because it's CALLED a superior hinge and he considered himself to be a SUPERIOR sort of doctor. He was completely dismissive of my concerns, grumbling something about how, just because the AAO prints one paper, everybody gets all up in arms.... I just couldn't believe my ears.
I was so irritated with that doctor's attitude, I canceled my surgery and am so glad I did. I already had REALLY dry eyes, after taking accutane 3 times. I even had SURGERY to correct my dry eyes... a doctor put a plug in my tear ducts to keep my eyes from getting too dry.
That's how bad it was, so you'd think the doc would have taken this seriously but NOPE! He just wanted to get paid. I do get it that it SOUNDS like it makes more sense to do a superior hinge because gravity would make it seem like it makes the most sense to put the hinge at the top of the eye, so it call fall downward naturally and everything will stay in place. But a GOOD doctor would consider that leaving a patient with really dry eyes is not worth the risk.
To this day, I seriously wonder if it was like some kind of divine intervention, that I just happened to have a friend who worked for the American Academy of Opthalmology, who just happened to see, and print, that article, the day before my surgery. What are the odds??
I later learned had an online discussion on Yelp, warning someone else about this doctor. For some reason I thought this was some sort of private discussion in a chat forum, but then learned it was PUBLIC and the there was no way to delete it without deleting my whole Yelp account.... which I didn't do.
I felt kinda bad cause that not-so-nice discussion was the FIRST THING that popped up in google, under this doctor's name. But I got over it, and now I'm glad to think maybe I was able to warn other people about the difference between a nasal hinge and a superior hinge, when clearly, this doctor was not willing to take the time to warn people himself. He had a terrible attitude and should have been a lot more considerate towards patients who have GENUINE, VALID CONCERNS about a LASER BEING STUCK INTO THEIR EYE.... especially when there's no way to undo it, and it could cause lifelong complications.
It's really sad to hear that these 2 people mentioned in the video committed suicide, but I get it. When my eyesight is off, I feel really spacy which is equivalent to feeling depressed.
When I took Accutane for the first time at age 19, I felt REALLY spacey and depressed. My eyes were SUPER DRY, and very dry eyes can really mess up your vision and focus. And then found out a lot of people committed suicide after being on Accutane. I always assumed this was partly related to that spacey feeling they got from their eyesight being messed up. And now, listening to this article, I'm even more convinced that there is a connection.
I'm so sorry to hear this happened to these people. But I'm also really glad the people at Redacted are bringing attention to this serious matter. Love their channel. For anyone who wants to check out more of their videos, click HERE. I highly recommend subscribing as well.
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