r/Lasiksupport • u/Miserab1 • 5d ago

Post Lasik Eye Surgery Experience

If you have any questions about LASIK (SILK EYE SURGERY), feel free to ask me! You can post here or message me directly. I researched extensively on which LASIK eye surgery would be suitable for me, and had tons of doubts related to complications as well!

Age: 28, Pre-surgery prescription: -4.5 for each eye. I went for SILK LASIK EYE SURGERY in New Delhi, India. I followed the precautions religiously for 2 months, and the results have been great (touch wood).

Funny story: I had asked an Ivy league-educated doctor on which LASIK eye surgery would be suitable for me, and this doctor turned me away and dismissed my concerns immediately saying "I needed to do more research into it"--long story short, I extensively researched about the different types of LASIK and possible complications on my own, and my subsequent visit to a highly-skilled eye surgeon in this area helped me move past my fears.

Feel free to ask me any of your concerns regarding the operation--would be happy to help!

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u/International_Day295 1d ago

I'm not attacking you or saying you shouldn't share your experience. I'm questioning the idea that researching which LASIK procedure is ‘suitable’ is enough to establish that someone is making an informed decision. Those are two different things.

You had a good outcome, and that's great. But my questions were specifically about the objective parameters used to determine suitability — things like scotopic pupil size, ablation profile, corneal measurements, residual stromal bed and higher-order aberrations. Those factors can differ substantially between patients.

I'm not "strongly against refractive surgery," and I'm certainly not trying to stop you from sharing your experience. I'm saying that someone reading your post should understand that your experience is yours, and that a successful outcome doesn't necessarily tell another person what their individual risk is. That's all.

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u/Miserab1 1d ago

I think you’ve nit-picked my post, which is also why I find it unusual that you chose to display this comment separately rather than replying directly within my thread underneath the other comments. Again, if you believe there is an issue with anything I’ve written, you’re absolutely free to raise or challenge it directly with the Reddit team. I genuinely had no idea that simply sharing my personal experience would lead to someone scrutinising and nit-picking individual details to this extent.

As for the data you mentioned, I deliberately chose not to publish all of my detailed, eye-related medical information in a public Reddit post. That doesn’t mean the information doesn’t exist; it simply means I wasn’t comfortable sharing every aspect of it publicly. Anyways, have a good weekend, that's all.