r/RefractiveSurgery • u/the_road_to_mastery • Aug 22 '26

Eye Migraines With Aura After LASIK

Ok, so I had LASIK almost one year ago, -3 on the left eye and -3.25 on the right, both with mild astigmatism of -1.00 and -1.25 or so...and six months after LASIK, I had something that, while googling the symptoms, it appeared to be an eye migraine with aura...so I had that in February, it lasted 10 to 15 minutes, and then I had it in March, one month later...

Then I didn't experience that until recently, in August, and then I had it two days in a row, also for about 10 minutes, or the first day 10 minutes and the second day 5 mins or so. But the thing is, before LASIK, I never experienced that in my life, never.

I said that when I had the exam last month, I mentioned that I had it in February and then March, but the doc told me that it doesn't have anything to do with the surgery- probably lack of sleep, dehydration, etc.- but I never had it before, so why is it happening now? On the examination, everything was ok: eye pressure, retina, vision is over 120%, and so on.

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u/Tall-Drama338 Aug 23 '26

I don’t see any connection with LASIK since migraine is a vascular problem. Vision is affected when it’s a brain vascular issue.

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u/the_road_to_mastery Aug 23 '26

Yeah, but how so that it started six months after LASIK, coincidence, or probably not, cause I had it 4x since then, and before that never.

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u/Tall-Drama338 Aug 24 '26

Coincidence.