Laser Eye Surgery Video

Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   creative ways to display information about laser eye surgery?
   i have a project about laser eye surgery to do
   and i am against it
   whats a creative way to display the information i recorded?
   no bristle boards or plays or videos please. this is due tomorrow.

   • ANSWER:
     get an eye-shaped piece of poster board and use a laser to burn in your information

2. QUESTION:
   Videos on Laser Eye Surgery?
   hey everyone, Just a brief intro....I've been researching/considering to do this lasik procedure and I've been looking around for some good videos on topic. So far the best site I found was http://www.lasereyesurgerytruth.com . Anyone know any other good ones?

   • ANSWER:
     my desk top

3. QUESTION:
   Is there a way to improve your vision with out laser eye surgery?
   Because i hate wearing glasses and ive been wearing them since the fourth grade, because when i was little i used to play a lot of video games.

   • ANSWER:
     Playing games and watching TV does not ruin your eyesight...it's a myth...I asked my opthamologist. You could always try contacts but to be honest, I prefer to wear glasses since their less worry and a cinch to put on and take off...plus glasses make me look smarter

     Other than some sort of corrective lenses (contacts, glasses, surgery (which is really experimental and a bad idea)) there is no way to improve your eyesight.

4. QUESTION:
   laser eye surgery worries?
   Hi all, Im thinking of having laser eye surgery and thought that a video of the procedure would answer most of my questions. Unfortunately the video frightened the crap out of me and now im having second thoughts.

   My main worry is, Can you see them slicing your eye open???

   Im also a bit worried about flinching.

   Im a big baby when it comes to this sort of thing and would really like to hear from people that have had this done.
   Many thanks. Andy

   The video I watched:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V4I2xzwGd4

   • ANSWER:
     One thing i need to say, it does not matter if you see them, you will have so many drops that you won't feel a thing, the mikrokeratotome part is quite uncomfortable, but that is it really. By the way you cannot see them do it because your vision will be blurred of.

     Good luck

5. QUESTION:
   Will Laser Eye Surgery Become Easier in a Few Years?
   After watching a few videos of it happening, I've decided I'm not getting it done. But in like 4 or 5 years time, will laser eye surgery be simpler, i.e wont last as long, no discomfort, no need to cut a flap.

   • ANSWER:
     not much easier than right now

6. QUESTION:
   Laser eye surgery questions?
   I'm only 15, so I may not be getting it for a few years til my eyes stop changing. I just have a few questions about it, before I even consider it:
   1.How is it done? can you give me a detailed description? Not just "They scrape your eye, you keep it open" etc. What do they use and all that?
   2. I watched a video online on a girl who got it done, and she said for a while her eyes were open, but it was black. I freak out when I'm blinded. If I'm in total darkness I will freak out. it's not a fear of the dark, it's a fear of being blinded, and not being able to see.
   3.How long does each eye take?

   • ANSWER:
     I had it done a week ago!

     1. They first lay you down on a padded bed thing, and swing the laser machine over you. They then fit the instrument that keeps your eyes open on your eyelids, which feels a bit uncomfortable but not too bad.

     Then comes the blinding part - they use a suction thing to stop your eye from moving while they cut the flap. It felt like someone was pressing on my eye and my vision went grey for about five seconds. I could hear the vibrating from the microkeratome cutting the flap in my eye but not feel it (other than a vibration).

     Then the doctor puts eye drops in my eyes, and peels the corneal flap away and my vision changes from sharp to almost like looking in a stained glass window. Then I have to stare at a red light for around a minute per eye. They count down. You can smell a funky smell like hair burning... but no pain.

     Repeat for the other eye!

     I was in the operating room maybe 5-10 mins total.

7. QUESTION:
   Does Laser Eye Surgery Hurt?
   I'm planning on getting LASEK next year, I have seen videos of the procedure being done and it looks bloody painful and horrible. Especially that thing that holds your eyes open.

   • ANSWER:
     I had laser eye surgery earlier this year. There is absolutely no pain involved. It is uncomfortable but not painful. I have not yet suffered from any side effects either. I would recommend getting laser eye surgery to anyone. One of the best decisions i ever made.

8. QUESTION:
   laser eye surgery?
   i am thinking of having it done but im a bit worryd about how painfull it may b? i also seen a video on youtube (that almost made me sick) of someone having it done, i dont fancy someone shaving my eyeball with a razorblade.... does this HAVE to b done as i know there are diffrent methods of doing it.

   • ANSWER:
     Laser eye surgery is very safe nowadays. There is one company that is very famous in India that arranges Laser surgery for foreigners in India. They are called the Fly2india4health Consultants. I read a lot about them in the Newspapers and about their patient stories. I have also read that they arrange financing for international patients, as all surgery is not covered by insurance or by the stinking NHS.

     They also have photos pasted of their International patients. You can checkout their website. The cost savings are incredible. As a doctor I personally believe that your Dental surgery can be easily handled in India, as the quality of Healthcare available here is simply best in the world. The surgeons are USA/UK trained and facilities are 5 star.

     My cousin got her Dental surgery done there and she is more than very happy with the results. She is all praise for Fly2india4health Consultants. She paid just 20% of the cost what she was quoted in USA and it was like a wonderful vacation for her. Hope this helps

     Source(s):
     http://www.fly2india4health.com

9. QUESTION:
   Is my eye vision bad?
   Is my vision really bad? I’m 18 and have 6.0 are what my glasses are. They seem really thick and If I have bad eyes. I did watch a lot of TV as a kid, and played video games a lot too. So is my vision bad, my doctor said it’s not good, and it’s not bad. I was thinking of getting laser eye surgery. Should I get laser eye surgery? How does this work

   • ANSWER:
     Its bad!

10. QUESTION:
    Is there a way to improve eye sight?
    I was just wondering is there a way to improve your eye sight without laser surgery or anything like that, just like maybe some kind of training for your eyes.

    And, i would also like to ask this: Does your eyesight get progressively worse if you are inside a lot and staring at a computer or tv.

    I used to have 20 20 vision, but then i stopped going outside as much and played more video games and then my eye sight got worse, i am not sure if it got worse because of that, but i think so, is it true?

    Any answer helps

    • ANSWER:
      To answer your question, yes - prolonged near work for long hours over many days/weeks/months...can cause a slow (but significant) increase in nearsightedness. This is due to the accommodative system of the eye - the reflexive system that allows you to focus at near. The accommodative system slowly "locks up" and struggles returning to a fully relaxed state.

      Foods high in antioxidants (green, leafy veggies) or beta carotine (carrots) are great - but they won't improve your vision. These may benefit the retina (to a certain extent) and help reduce the risk of developing diseases such as macular degeneration.

      To help prevent any increase in nearsightedness (myopia), you can take some very simple steps. First, practice "visual hygiene" - little things that help promote relaxation of the accommodative system. These include breaks during intense sessions of near work, using proper/full lighting, and avoiding reading at a super close distance. This website goes into more detail: http://www.eyegal.com/eyestrain.htm .

      Second, increased eyeglasses prescription due to hysteresis of the accommodative system can be slowly reduced by vision therapy. VT works the accommodative system and "normalizes" the near/far vision shifts to promote full relaxation of the lens and ciliary body of the eye (both responsible for near focus). This is an involved process, but can be quite successful (depends on the patient, motivation, etc). Some optometrists are involved in VT, as are orthoptists and some occupational therapists.

      Try the visual hygiene tips first.

11. QUESTION:
    How to be less afraid of CONTACT LENSES, and other things related to optics?
    i've been wearing glasses for quite a while. and i kinda want to get contact lenses, cuz i think i look better without glasses. but you know how people have like shark phobias, or snake phobias? i have EYE PHOBIA, even when you talk about somehting about eyes, or how your contacts slipped out of your eye or something, i'll start squirming around in my chair or something. Also, in grade 8 i watched a science video where someone was doing laser eye surgery, and i started tearing because i got so scared. Furthermore, when my eyes get red, my dad makes me use eye drops, but i would cry as well cuz im way too scared.

    so does anyone know how to help me with this problem? cuz i really want to try to get contacts, but first i have to overcome this fear. any ideas? thanks A BUNCH !

    • ANSWER:
      i swear that is EXACTLY like me to the point. i have some weird eye phobia, like when people try to get an eyelash out their eye, freaky. and it is impossible for me to put eyedrops in . yeah i used to be the same. i've been wearin contacts for about a month and a half now lol, a newbie. its great. like you're thinking "omg, im finna jab my eye out" just relax, i hold me breath until it's all the way in and bam, you can see. i swear, u only barely feel it after a while. the first week is going to be difficult but after a while you'll thank the man who invented these things. and don't worry about how long it takes to first put them in, took me two saturdays and four hours, kinda broke the store record lol.

12. QUESTION:
    My father has bipolar disorder. Will I also have it?
    My father has bipolar disorder (disease started after my birth). He takes regular dose of lithium carbonate and stay in control because of it. If he leaves it for a week the symptoms start appearing. He has low IQ level and was poor in studies and logical reasoning. But he is not a mentally retard and has average thinking ability. My grand mother had the same disease (disease started before the birth of my father). One of my father's sister also has permanent mild (below average I would say) bipolar issue. So, I would say that my father and my aunt inherited the disease from my grand mother. My father has three sisters and none of their children (my cousins) and neither me nor my sister have this disease. Me, my sister and my cousins are 20-30 in age and do not show any signs of it. Is there any chance that I might have it at older age? I am totally aware of this disease and what effects it causes to the behavior because I have seen my father, my grand mother and my aunt suffering from it. I am in perfect health state and go to the gym 2-3 hrs a week and do yoga and meditation 2-3 hrs a week as a preventive measure. Will this help? I have never taken a lithium test so I do not know how good my lithium levels are. Should I take lithium tests on regular basis to my check levels? I do not have any disease and had a laser eye surgery to correct short-sightedness caused by TV and video games. I was good in studies and I have good IQ and reasoning capabilities.

    My concern is that my father requires regular dose of lithium carbonate to remain in control. None of my three aunts (father's sister) need medication because only one has very mild permanent symptoms of it and does not require medicine to control it. So, I am the only child in my generation whose one of the parent has it. And hence I am always worried.

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13. QUESTION:
    Do Does Really Help The Eyes As They Say?
    All those sites that say do these eye exercise over time it will hepl with one's eyes. Does it really work. Would one who have been wearing glasses, have not strong be a little less stronger glasses the next time he or she go for new glasses. Would it help one see a little more detail from how far, then before. Like say from where the sofa is and where the audio/video reciver is. Would one see the screen's little words a little better with a little more details again then before. I know it not going have one get rid of wearing glasses, that take laser eye surgery. What about those little bit of help.

    What have been proven to be true or fake as hell and really does help at all, by public health people or doctors. When I find the links to them I'll post them.

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14. QUESTION:
    Why do peope hate jews so much?
    why do people hate jews so much we helped a lot of people infact heres a list of some jewish inventors an how they helped:

    Robert Adler-remote control
    Selig Percy Amoils- ophthalmologist; Cryoprobe
    Zora Arkus-Duntov-co-designer of Corvette sports car
    Herman Aron -invented the electric meter
    Ralph Baer-video games console "Simon"
    Itzhak Bentov-Remote controlled cardiac catheter
    Lodewyk van Berken[3]1456: invented scaif, a diamond polishing wheel
    Emile Berlinerinventor of gramophone
    Samuel Blumco-inventor of laser eye surgery LASIK
    Baruch Blumberg and Irving Millmanvaccine for Hepatitis B
    Gustav Buckyradiologist bucky grid x-ray
    Joel Davidson1954: 100% solar powered vehicle
    Carl Djerassi[4], Gregory Pincus[5], and Frank Colton[6]oral contraceptive, antihistamines
    Paul Eislerinventor of printed circuit board
    Gertrude Elionanti-leukemia drugs Nobel Prize (1988) in medicine zovirax
    Sam Fedida: inventor of Vie
    Joel Engel-co-inventor of cellular technology
    and much more!

    • ANSWER:
      Anti-Semitic accounts in the New Testament have taught mankind to hate the Jew. As long as the New Testament continues in print (at least in its present form) the Jew will be hated. Here are but a few verses from where Christianity borrowed its anti-Semitic sentiments.

      “The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8.12)

      “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold your house is left unto you desolate.” (Matthew 23.37,38) Then answered all the people (Jews) and said, “His blood be on us and on our children” (Matthew 27:25). 1 “But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you to councils, and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten” (Mark 13.9)

      “He that believeth not shall be damned” (Mark 16.16)

      “Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And I say the truth, why do you not believe me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God” (John 8.43-47)

      “Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so you do. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers” (Acts 7.51-53)

      “It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you and judge yourself unworthy of everlasting life, we turn to the Gentiles” (Acts 13.45-51)

      “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake ... wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.” (Titus 1.10-14).

      “The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God and are contrary to all men: forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.” (l Thessalonians 2.14-16)

      “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is an antichrist, that denieth the father and the son. Whoever denieth the son, the same hath not the father” (l John 2.22,23)

      “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan ...” (Revelation 2.9,10)

      “Behold I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not but do lie; behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet...” (Revelation 3.9)

      now examine the words of some Christian “saints” and leaders and notice how their anti-Jewish expressions are based on New Testament verses listed earlier in this article.

      Origen: “Their rejection of Jesus has resulted in their present calamity and exile. We say with confidence that they will never be restored to their former condition. For they have committed a crime of the most unhallowed kind, in conspiring against the saviour.”

      St. Gregory: “ Jews are slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, enemies of God, haters of God, adversaries of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, advocates of the devil, brood of vipers, slanderers, scoffers, men of darkened minds, leaven of the Pharisees, congregation of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners and haters of goodness.”

      St. Jerome: “....serpents, haters of all men, their image is Judas ... their psalms and prayers are the braying of donkeys..”

      St. John Chrysostom: “I know that many people hold a high regard for the Jews and consider their way of life worthy of respect at the present time... This is why I am hurrying to pull up this fatal notion by the roots ... A place where a whore stands on display is a whorehouse. What is more, the synagogue is not only a whorehouse and a theater; it is also a den of thieves and a haunt of wild animals ... not the cave of a wild animal merely, but of an unclean wild animal ... When animals are unfit for work, they are marked for slaughter, and this is the very thing which the Jews have experienced. By making themselves unfit for work, they have become ready for slaughter. This is why Christ said: “ask for my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them and slay them before me’ (Luke 19.27).”

      St. Augustine: “Judaism is a corruption. Indeed Judas is the image of the Jewish people. Their understanding of the Scriptures is carnal. They bear the guilt for the death of the saviour, for through their fathers they have killed the Christ.”

      St. Thomas Aquinas: “It would be licit to hold Jews, because of the crimes, in perpetual servitude, and therefore the princes may regard the possessions of Jews as belonging to the State.”

      The teachings of Martin Luther:

      “Know, 0 adored Christ, and make no mistake, that aside from the Devil, you have no enemy more venomous, more desperate, more bitter, than a true Jew who truly seeks to be a Jew... a Jew, a Jewish heart, are hard as wood, as stone, as iron, as the Devil himself. In short, they are children of the Devil, condemned to the flames of hell.”

      “O Lord, I am too feeble to mock such devils. I would do so, but they are much stronger than I in raillery, and they have a God who is a past master in this art; He is called the devil and the wicked spirit.. They have transformed God into the devil, or rather into a servant of the Devil, accomplishing all the evil the Devil desires, corrupting unhappy souls , and raging against himself: in short, the Jews are worse than the devils.”

      “What then shall we Christians do with this damned, rejected race of Jews? First, their synagogues should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. And this ought to be done for the honour of God and of Christianity, in order that God may see that we are true Christians. Secondly, their homes should be likewise broken down and destroyed. Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayerbooks and talmuds in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught. Fourthly, their rabbis must be forbidden under threats of death to teach anymore.”

      “Now whoever wishes to accept venomous serpents, desperate enemies of the lord, and to honor them, to let himself be robbed, pillaged, corrupted and cursed by them, need only turn to the Jews. If this is not enough for him, he can do more: crawl up into their...... and worship the sanctuary, so as to glorify himself afterwards for having been merciful, for having fortified the Devil and his children, in order to blaspheme our beloved lord and the precious blood that has redeemed us. He will then be a perfect Christian, filled with works of mercy, for which Christ will reward him on the-day of judgment with the eternal fire of hell (where he will roast together with the Jews).”

      “In truth, the Jews, being foreigners, should possess nothing, and what they do possess should be ours.”

      “...Cursed goy that I am, I cannot understand how they manage to be so skillful, unless I think that when Judas Iscariot hanged himself, his guts burst and emptied. Perhaps the Jews sent their servants with plates of silver and pots of gold to gather up Judas’ piss with the other treasures, and then they ate and drank his offal, and thereby acquired eyes so piercing that they discover in the scriptures commentaries that neither Matthew nor Isaiah himself found there, not to mention the rest of us cursed goyim..”

      “If I find a Jew to baptize, I shall lead him to the Elbe bridge, hang a stone around his neck, and push him into the water, baptizing him with the name of Avraham!.. I cannot convert the Jews. Our lord Christ did not succeed in doing so; but I can close their mouths so that there will be nothing for them to do but to lie upon the ground.”

      “I hope I shall never be so stupid as to be circumcised; I would rather cut off the left breast of my Catherine and of all women.”

      “If we are to remain unsullied by the blasphemy of the Jews and not wish to take part in it, we must be separated from them and they must be driven out of their country.”

      These anti-semitic words uttered by popes, priests, pastors and laymen, were put into action by unruly Christian mobs and later by Hitler’s followers.

      Over time, Christian anti-Semitism acquired a racial dimension along with its religious thrust. This had significant consequences. After all, when Jew-hating was rooted in religion, a Jew could convert to Christianity and become, as it were, fully kosher. But when states began forcing Jews to convert—or face expulsion or execution—the authenticity of the Jews’ conversions became suspect. After Christians conquered Spain from the Muslims in 1492, they forced Jews and Muslims to convert, flee, or die. Many Jews converted yet practiced their old faith secretly, leading church officials to make new rules discriminating against all so-called conversos.

      In the 19th century, anti-Semitism became increasingly racialized. The Enlightenment certainly made life better for Jews, at least in Western Europe, where religious tolerance took hold. Yet the Enlightenment also brought new “scientific”—or, as we now say, pseudoscientific—notions that human beings belonged to different races, some superior to others. Under these notions, Jews (as well as Africans, Arabs, and others) were deemed to be biologically and thus immutably inferior to white or “Aryan” Europeans.

      Alongside racism, 19th-century Europe also saw the spread of nationalism: the idea that every people deserved its own state. Nationalism served to justify the repression of “alien” peoples, especially Jews—not just in eastern Europe, where Jews lived in ghettos, insulated from their Polish or Russian compatriots, but even in Western Europe, where many Jews were assimilated and considered themselves full citizens of their countries. This new form of ideological anti-Semitism—seeing the Jews as an alien and inferior people amid Christian European nations—finally got its name in 1879, thanks to an Austrian journalist named Wilhelm Marr.

      By this point, the ideology of anti-Semitism had bred elaborate theories about the Jewish people’s evil. In some cases, ancient religious bigotries were updated, as in the “blood libel” that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood in making Passover matzot. (In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ukraine, and elsewhere, Jews were actually tried in court on such charges.) In other cases, the slanders were new, as with the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a document fabricated by Russian secret police that purported to divulge the Jews’ conspiratorial plans for world domination.

15. QUESTION:
    "Werid" Al Yankovic Link...?
    there was a video on youtube of him having an interview and he was telling a story about him getting laser eye surgery and when a contact lense fell out, he thought it was part of his eye! but i cant find the link.. find me the link and you'll get best answer + i'll be really grateful thanks,

    • ANSWER:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYovMcKcLI4
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiPSIY9aZ4g
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNiE-wSXGVg

      That's parts 1, 2 and 3 of an interview (not sure it's the right interview)

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFeiaUhuwg <<<

16. QUESTION:
    What to do with my vision?
    I have incredible eyesight in my right eye to the point where i can make out car number plates from a long way away, in fact I've given up playing video games just to preserve it however im finding it more difficult now to stop my left eye doubling up my vision, its causing me some severe migraines but i do a lot of studio and editing work so it could just be the lighting, im considering getting my eyes looked at but i dont want to compromise my overall vision by getting laser eye surgery, my right eye's vision has helped me become very good at studio work but i fear i may loose my vision all together, surely its not worth it?

    • ANSWER:
      Woah, dude. Listen, can you make sure to put PERIODS in your writing? If you look at your paragraph, it is practically one long sentence.

      Get your eyes checked. My friend has perfect 20/20 vision in one eye while the other eye is nearsighted. So she wears glasses, but one lense is just normal glass without perscription.

      This might be the case for you.

17. QUESTION:
    how much should outsourcing influence my career choices?
    I am currently working on a degree in graphics design. I am considering changing majors, but I'm not sure exactly what to switch to. Health care might be more stable and harder to outsource.

    I probably wouldn't consider majoring in programming or engineering because a lot of those jobs are getting outsourced to India and China. I was a little worried about graphics design and web design being outsourced, especially in this economy. What are some jobs that are very hard to outsource? It seems like almost anything can be outsourced, so should outsourcing be a major concern when I decide on my major?

    Is Civil engineering or architecture much harder to outsource than other engineering jobs like mechanical and electrical engineering? Since you are building something designed for a specific location, I figured it might be more convenient to hire locally than outsource.

    Would therapists probably ever be outsourced much through video chat or anything like that?

    I'm also considering what jobs might become more obsolete in the future by the time I got a degree in them. For example, an optometrist makes a good salary, but they might be less in demand in the future because of laser eye surgery. Then their salary and job stability will decrease.

    I also don't want to major in pharmacy because I'm afraid I would accidentally fill the wrong prescription. I'm afraid of anything that requires that much attention to detail. It wouldn't bother me as much if I had the opportunity to correct a mistake and there wasn't so much at stake like losing my license or something. Or at least if it was harder to make a mistake with major ramifications. Optometry or dentistry would be a little more appealing in this way, but I'd rather not have to clean other people's mouths and I'm afraid optometry would be less in demand by the time I finished my education.

    Does anyone have any useful knowledge or suggestions based on what I've discussed?

    • ANSWER:
      My complements to you for thinking strategically.

      I'll suggest that you spend some time with the "Occupational Outlook Handbook", either online at http://www.bls.gov/OCO/ or in print at your local library.

      It's researched and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the (U.S. Federal) Department of Labor.

      Your tax dollars at work. Take advantage of it!

18. QUESTION:
    REMOVING CATARACS....?
    alright i guess when i was little...like 2years old i got catarac sugery.
    now im 16 and i just found out that next week i am having them remov ed....now i have watched some videos on youtube of catarac surgery and it looks like it HURTS LIKE HELL....my question...

    Do you feel any thing, or is it painless?
    Do they put you to sleep or are you awake?
    if it hurts, is there an option to use laser eye surgery or at least give you laughing gas.....

    prob dumb questions but i have looked on google and cam up clean...any help would be great!
    THEY PARALIZE AND NUMB THE EYE!!!!!

    IS IT DROPS OR A NEEDLE...IF ITS A NEEDLE IM GONA KILL MYSELF AHAAHAHA

    • ANSWER:
      well first you should know its spelled CATARACT (you left off the T)

      no it doesn't hurt. they numb your eye so you don't feel it. and they also paralyze your eye so you won't have to try to keep it still or anything.

      it depends on the surgeon what type of anesthesia they want to use. you may just get something to relax you or you may be sedated so you drift in and out of sleep or you may be but completely to sleep.
      (personally i like being fully asleep for eye surgery cuz other wise it seems like you are being operated on for a really long time even if its only 30 minutes)

      you can get a lot of good info from this website about cataracts and the causes, symptoms, and treatments:
      http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/cataracts/cataracts-topic-overview

      i believe the cause for your was probably congenital (born with them) cuz the dr's dianosed it as such young age.

19. QUESTION:
    Should I get prescription reading glasses?
    I really don't know what to do.

    Since I was 11 (14 years ago as I am now 25) or maybe younger I have been wearing glasses. The problem, if indeed it is one, is that during that entire period I have been wearing my distance glasses for absolutely everything including extremely close work and reading music.

    Thus, I believe that both sides of my vision are bad. Reading street signs even with my distance glasses is tough, and yet if I take them off I can't read this computer screen.

    If I get reading glasses, will it take some of the strain off of my eyes? (I am referring to the notion that reading with reading glasses would be better than reading with distance glasses.)

    What I don't get is that, when I tell an optician (optometrist? whoever does the eye exam at the eyeglasses store...) that they are for distance, they don't pick up that since I walked in wearing them that I am wearing them for absolutely everything and that that might be a bad thing.

    I asked her about reading glasses and she said "oh you're still young and you should let your eyes focus naturally while reading" but I forgot to tell her that they are already crap since I have been wearing my distance glasses for everything, and so you should give me reading glasses because that's what I came here for. But instead I just sheepishly took her comment and ended up leaving with, well, not what I wanted or what I thought I needed.

    So basically should I get prescription reading glasses and would it help me?

    (The ones at the checkout counter at the drug store don't work for me, probably because I also have a stigmatism.)

    And no, for the time being I am opposed to surgery unless they can knock me out at the door and have me wake up without remembering it. But supposedly they can't know you out because your eyes move uncontrollably.

    I have seen videos of the surgery where they are holding your eyes open with clamps, and I think it is also necessary to do so for laser surgery. I'm not letting anything like that near my eyes if I'm aware of it. And if they have to tie you down to the bed to keep you from batting the doctor's hands away, then that's akin to torture. (And even if they tell you that you won't be able to see it, that's not true either. A friend of my mom's had cataract surgery and he could see the curved needle coming down to sew up his eye even though he couldn't feel it.)

    But supposedly they have to keep you aware because, if they out you to sleep, your eyes move all around and they can't do the surgery.

    Well, sorry if this turned into a flaming rant but I will leave it this way to show how concerned and/or scared.

    • ANSWER:
      Call whoever wrote your current prescription and ask for a copy. Take the copy of the prescription and post in the usenet group sci.med.vision (which can be gotten to through google groups) and pay attention to anything Mike Tyner, Dr. Judy or Robert Martellaro tell you. Ignore the resident loon, Otis.

      It's a pretty common progression for nearsighted people to become more nearsighted in early adulthood. With astigmatism, you're probably going to want glasses full time. If they are very strong glasses (like -5 or more), you're going to need to be more picky with how the glasses sit on your face.

      I'm guessing that what you really need is a good refraction ("eye test") from someone who is really a skilled refractionist, not any random doc at the optical shop, and glasses that are carefully made so they really help your astigmatism. Or you may do better with contact lenses -- many people do.

      Towards the end of her life, my mom was having terrible trouble seeing, and I finally persuaded her to try the practice that I'd found that specialized in people with "low vision". They spent nearly an hour on the refraction part of the exam, and we spent almost an hour while the optician they'd referred us to very, very carefully measured her for frames and lenses. Then another hour of fitting and adjustment when the lenses were made. Suddenly, she could see well again for the first time in about 10 years, and spent the next 6 years happily reading, watching tv, and doing all sorts of things she thought she'd no longer be able to do with her eyesight. A good exam and fitting can make that much difference.

      PS: If you really think readers would help, you can try on some over your current glasses. What reading glasses do in this test, when someone is nearsighted is "subtract strength" from your current glasses. Yeah, you'll look silly, but if they do help, you can have bifocals or progressive lenses made.

20. QUESTION:
    Do ipods damege your vision?
    I had a laser surgery six months ago and I am 20/20 too. I want to take care of my eyes, i wonder if to watch videos on your ipod video will damege some eyes.
    i paid around 00.00

    • ANSWER:
      It may damage your eyes if you use it a lot (meaning 8 hr a day) and you put it very very close to your eyes... otherwise don't worry 'bout it

21. QUESTION:
    Nervous about Lasik, need personal experiences!?
    This December my dad and I were going to get Lasik surgery together but after watching some videos of the procedure, i'm not so sure anymore. Also, I am nervous that I will not be able to keep my eye steady when they use the laser, what if i move it and the laser touches the wrong part of my eye?! I am really nervous so tell me about your experience, good or bad, how you felt, and if you are happy with your results and if the procedure was definitely worth it.

    Here are the movies I watched so let me know if it was anything like this, or just comment on them in general.

    http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=29950&fr=yfp-t-501

    http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1077999647&fr=yfp-t-501

    Also, in the second clip they poke something into the tear duct but not in the first one, but maybe they just didn't record that part, but do they always do that??
    If you have had the surgery, are you able to rub your eyes like you could before the surgery? or do you have to be more careful when it comes to that?
    Because I know they have to peel part of your eye up for the procedure and wanted to know if they fully heal (as if they never cut your eye) so you can normally rub your eyes again if you have an itch.

    • ANSWER:
      Hi there AskandAnswer! I just had PRK last week...and my husband had LASIK about a month ago. I work with a group of ophthalmologists...and didn't watch the procedures until I watched my hubby's procedure...and walked out of there like NO WAY!! After researching the procedures and surgeons and technology, I thought again.

      The newest technologies have "eye tracker" systems...where they will lock onto the pupil for small involuntary eye movements.

      I was soooooo anxious and nervous...even when I went in for my consult I was shaking! Let alone the day of my PRK...I was a nervous wreck.

      They did offer me a valium, which of course I took! and that helped take the edge off my anxiety and nervousness.

      They got me all situated, and there was this little amber flashing light that I stared at for the whole procedure. I tell you, it was so quick! They had mapped out my entire cornea (twice because I had to have the custom wavefront) and had everything entered and checked in the computer that drives the laser three times or more. Just before my surgeon did anything to either eye, he used numbing drops that took effect immediately. There was a tiny bit of pressure, but absolutely NO pain. It actually took longer for the prep than for the actual laser, and the techs counted down how much longer. I didn't have anything put in my tear duct. I know that plugging the tear ducts helps with eye dryness for people who do not have laser correction surgery, so perhaps it's what that particular surgeon does to help with the postop dry eyes. It looks like what they did was insert a "punctal plug" into the eye's drainage system to help with dry eye postop.

      I had the PRK, which is a little different than the LASIK. I didn't have the flap created. Instead, a very very thin part of the eye called the epithelium (only about 1/4 the thickness of the LASIK flap) was removed. After my procedure, I was put in "bandage contact lenses"...yup...just plain no power contacts used to help the cornea heal...and was in those for four days. I could see the instant I came out from under the laser. The next four days were an experience with some fluctuating vision, some dry eyes (more like when your contacts are dry), four times a day drops (three meds), and keeping my eyes closed as much as possible to help with the healing and other symptoms. The PRK procedure does have a slower healing time, and wasn't as comfortable as my husband's LASIK.

      Well, I finally got those bandage contacts off this past Monday...and here...one week postop, I am seeing better than I have in my life without correction! I'm not 20/20 yet, but it's still TONS better than the 20/400 and worse vision I've had my entire life. The discomfort I had over the weekend (and they did give me numbing drops and Vicodin along with Motrin) was worth it.

      Now, my husband was seeing 20/30 and 20/20 the day after his LASIK, had only dry eye symptoms, and today, about 4 weeks postop, is seeing 20/20 in his 'bad eye' and 20/15 in his good (he'd been previously correctable to 20/10 in his 'good eye'). I do not know my actual vision (next postop they will check...and it's not til next week), but I think it's at least 20/30 in my 'good' eye and at least 20/40 in my historically weaker eye...and I've been seeing steady improvement all week.

      We are both VERY happy with our results...and I tell you...even if I end up needing some driving glasses and reading glasses in the next few years...no biggie! It is sooooo much better than the real thick glasses and expensive contacts that I used to have. Yes, the videos are pretty similar to what I saw with the exception of the purple dye and the punctal plug, with my husband's surgery.