I had LASIK on 11/22/04. The procedure went fine. My next day check up was fine. Over the next few days, I noticed my left I was seeing clear and well but the right was slow in coming around. My one week check up revealed striae (I think macro) in my right eye. My surgeon carefully looked at it and said that it only just barely protrudes into the axis. The right eye vision was 20-40. He ran me through the tests again that I had before LASIK and had me look through a lens that cleared up my right eye vision. He recommended not lifting the flap and that an enhancement was the best course of action because a prescription could correct the vision. I got a second opinion and that doctor agreed about not lift the flap.

In observing my right eye vision, I now know that the poor vision is due to double vision. No real difference at night or day. In a pin hole, I can actually see the thin blurring line that is causing the double vision. It runs right through the center of my axis – coincidentally in just about the same direction as the supposedly harmless striae. It seems that my right eye has some kind of imperfection, whether it is striae, irregular astigmatism, under-correction, or something else, I can’t seem to get a 100% accurate answer.

Is microstriae harder to detect then macrostriae? Because a lens corrects my poor vision, can I rule out that there is some kind of hard-to-detect striae in my axis or some other flap problem?

I really don’t want to have an enhancement if the real problem is not under-correction. I may come out worse. I wonder about the odds of having non-protruding striae AND under-correction in the same eye. Sometimes were there is smoke, there is fire.