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 is lasik, william - commerce, GA, 1/14/2002
  answer, William B. Trattler, MD Miami, FL 1/16/2002, (#1)
 good vision, william - commerce, GA, 1/17/2002, (#2)
High levels of farsightedness, Steven R. Corwin, M.D. Marietta, GA 1/21/2002, (#3)
can i have LASIK, shafi - doha, AR, 1/26/2002, (#4)
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"is lasik"
Posted by william - commerce, GA on 22:23:47 1/14/2002
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is lasik for me? left eye +4.75 cyl=+1.75 axis 116 right eye +3.75 cyl=+200 axis=63 right eye
[ lazy eye ] eye sight bad. would it do any good to have lasik on this bad eye?
mickey
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1. "answer"
Posted by William B. Trattler, MD on 08:09:11 1/16/2002
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You have a significant level of hyperopic astigmatism, and many doctors feel that treating above 4 diopters of hyperopia total has a lot of risk. Your level of hyperopia is equal to the hyperopia plus 50% of the astigmatism. So for your right eye, your level of hyperopia is +4.75 + 0.875 (this is 50% of 1.75)which equals 5.63.
Again - most doctors think that even though the lasers can treat up to 6 diopters of hyperopia, the quality of vision is not as good once a person is treated above 4 diopters of hyperopia.
I hope this helps
Bill Trattler, MD
Miami, FL
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2. " good vision"
Posted by william - commerce, GA on 16:47:34 1/17/2002
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>You have a significant level of hyperopic
>astigmatism, and many doctors feel that
>treating above 4 diopters of hyperopia
>total has a lot of risk.
> Your level of hyperopia is
>equal to the hyperopia plus 50%
>of the astigmatism. So for
>your right eye, your level of
>hyperopia is +4.75 + 0.875 (this
>is 50% of 1.75)which equals 5.63.
> Again - most
>doctors think that even though the
>lasers can treat up to 6
>diopters of hyperopia, the quality of
>vision is not as good once
>a person is treated above 4
>diopters of hyperopia.
>I hope this helps
>Bill Trattler, MDMiami, FL
when you say vision is not as good. how good are you talking about? with glass`s vision is close to 20/30 right eye prob.20/100 if i could see as good after lasik as i can with these thick glass`s i would be mighty happy.
thank`s
mickey
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3. "High levels of farsightedness"
Posted by Steven R. Corwin, M.D. on 18:18:31 1/21/2002
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There are a few possible problems doing LASIK on high levels of farsightedness like you have. The results are much less predictable than we normally expect for LASIK. Therefore we can't give you an exact level of vision you might end up with. It could be worse than what you now have with glasses. Secondly the vision sometimes continues to fluctuate after surgery. There is no treatment for that. A better solution for you might be an intraocular lens implant. As far as the "lazy" eye, nothing can be done to improve the vision in that eye. Surgery would just give you the same vision you have now in that eye but without glasses. If you would let me know your age, I can give you some more info about intraocular lens implants if you are interested in possibly pursuing this option.
Steven Corwin, MD
EmoryVision
Atlanta, GA
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4. "can i have LASIK"
Posted by shafi - doha, AR on 12:01:19 1/26/2002
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Dear sir/madam,
this is shafi age 29, i lasik for me? i have distance vision (i cant see things at distance)left eye -1.25 cyl=-0.75 axis 90 right eye -1.75 cyl=-1.00 axis=90. I am wearing glassed from past 15 -17 years, would it do any good to have lasik and not wear glasses permanently?
Regards
Shafi
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