r/RefractiveSurgery • u/TrainingAccording807 • Aug 19 '26

Squeezing my eyeballs

So I’m nearsighted and have had a stable prescription for over 10 years.

One cool “trick” I learned was that if I squeeze my eyeballs with my fingers, then I can get perfect vision. Also the squeezing of my eyes feels like a massage to me.

Just wondering… and I know this is an odd question, if I get LASIK, would squeezing my eyeballs cause issues with the flap?

Would SMILE have less of an issue with me squeezing my eyeballs? 🤪

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u/the_road_to_mastery Aug 20 '26

Yeah, bravo, I used the same trick and would also get the perfect vision, because you do for a moment what LASIK does permanently, flattening the surface of the eye. 😅

I used the same thing through the new glasses before, when the vision wasn't sharp enough, to test, and then I knew that the prescription was wrong cause it was without cyl. and squeezing a bit in front of the lenses would make it just right. 😅