I had LASIK surgery with a Staph infection 2-weeks post op, right eye. The infection centered very near visual axis under the flap. After lifting the flap 24-hours after pain/light sensitivity/loss of visual acuity (corneal antibiotics given 8 hours after first onset), infection cleared completely after a full 7 days. Infection left stria and scarring.

Now 1 year/2 months post-op, doctors are looking into removing flap which contains 50-75% of scaring/stria (estimated flap to be 100-150m). Current vision is 20/30 under office conditions, but very poor (20/100 with ghosting and variable blur and glare) outdoors or moderate/bright lighting, even with 11m RGP contacts for slight astigmatism and near-sightedness (-1.00 diopters); near vision is very poor as well due to ghosting. Doctors say PTK would create too much farsightness (+10d), which combined with my left eye (-4.5d -- other problems created this, but RGPs have corrected well) would create too much image size difference.

Do you have any information into flap removals or other possible treatments?

Sincerely,

Tim Pettit