I am 33yrs old and had my lasik 6 weeks ago. My vision now is 6/6 abd 6/9. The outcome seems good but my night vision quality has deteriorated, the ambience is dimmer than that suppose to be and difficult to focus on PC.
Now disaster come to me is the floaters. I encountered floaters the 2nd day of lasik. LASIK uses a microkeratome that is attached to the eye with suction. This suction raises the pressure inside the eye briefly and has the risk of induce floters in your eyes. I can see insects like particle whenever i read on a paper or stare on the sky. It can't ignore them as they are moving objects and is normal for human to sense a moving objects. Now i have to bare with all these little insects in my eye for life and i know there is no cure for this. Though there is no study on lasik that causes floaters but my case i can truly conclude that it occurs after lasik.

Your situation may not be as dire as it at first appears.

You mention symptoms that sound like reduced contrast sensitivity in your right eye. Reduced contrast sensitivity can make floaters appear more prominently than normal. If the contrast sensitivity reduction is related to issues that will resolve with healing or additional treatment, your awareness of floaters may diminish.

The brain is very good at learning how to ignore vision disturbances. An example is your blind spot. Everyone has a spot in their field of vision that is totally without vision – black. This is where the optic nerve enters the eye. Although we all have a blind spot, we don’t “see” it. This is because over the years the brain has learned to ignore this area and “look around” the blind spot.

Similarly, the brain can learn to ignore minor floaters. The first step to this is for you to not focus on the floaters and try to not be floater aware. That is easier said than done, but there can be times when you “forget” you have floaters and their vision disturbances are not so problematic.

We have a detailed article about Lasik and Floaters at http://www.usaeyes.org/faq/subjects/floaters.htm that you may find helpful.

Glenn Hagele
http://USAEyes.org
Lasik Patient Advocacy & Surgeon Certification

I am not a doctor.

Where did this patient mention that she had reduced contrast
sensitivity and floaters in her right eye

I think that the possibility of increased vitreous floaters should be
mentioned in all informed consent forms prior to Lasik. Particularly
when many patients go for the ''increased accuracy of the
femtosecond laser'' which requires a longer period of increased
pressure. It is possible that your new friends will settle or become
less noticeable over time. Good luck to you.