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Fun fact, or not so fun fact, this is actually part of the surgery to help with Keratoconus. Or at least ir was a few years back when I got treated.
You have to be awake for it, because immediatly following it you have to do some eye tracking stuff under a UV light.
The scraping itself isn't too bad, you get these numbing eye drops that make it so you can't feel anything. I don't know if it's because your eyes are attatched to your skull, but you can hear it. And that's awful.
The recovery is hell too. You're effectively blind in one eye. And it's incredibly painful. The worst part is, is that they only do one eye at a time so you have to go back in a year knowing exactly what's going to haplen to you.
And they don't even give you a copy of fifa 2016 π©
No, all I got was an eyepatch and a bottle of painkillers.
Eyepatch you say...?
regarding eye surgery - my ex had a LASIK procedure done, and she said the most awful thing about it was the smell of the burnt off eye material.
I did SMILE couple months back, don't know what you guys are talking about. No burned eye smell, only a couple of seconds of blindness in one eye, go home, sleep, no pain afterwards. Didn't hear much either, despite the doc clearly moving a metallic object under my cornea
I was, indeed, seeing subpar and blurry for a month, but now it's okay.
Might be wrong about this, but don't they implant a supportive ring for keratoconus?
I got Lasik last year. I could smell it, but idk about that being the worst. I did not care for the calipers that held the eyelids out if the way, or the machine physically suctioning onto the eye itself. I got a lil Valium (thank goodness) and a teddy bear. The bear was forced into my hands, and I remember thinking "oh, the fluff is missing from the middle. I wonder why that is." when the suction was applied, I squeezed it so I didn't move or anything. Hands fell right into the cavity of missing fluff. "oh, that's why" I thought.
Actually, you can even hear your eyes moving, or could, if your mind wouldn't just filter out that noise. However it is possible for you to hear it if you are affected by some pretty severe cases of ear infection. I hear it's kind of a sloshing noise.