If you can’t read what’s in front of your face, or you can’t see anything more than a foot away from you, you might be considering Lasic Eye Surgery to correct the problem. That would be a mistake. Don’t fumble around looking for your glasses. Read this article to find our how to improve your eyesight without surgery.

A procedure that permanently changes the clear covering of the front of the eye, called the cornea, is Lasik surgery. Medical term is Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis. This popular surgery promises miracles, like having 20/20 vision afterward. If this sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is. 95% of people are satisfied with the surgery. That is according to the industry, not the patients.

The F.D.A’s website lists some of the risks of Lasik surgery. They are: debilitating visual symptoms such as glare, halos, double vision or having worse night vision than you did before the surgery. Others are loss of vision lines on a vision chart that can’t be corrected with glasses, contacts or additional surgery. If you need additional treatment, that may not be possible and you’ll still need glasses or contacts.

Lasic Eye Surgery is still relatively new and it’s safety and effectiveness is not known yet. After surgery you can develop dry eye syndrome which is uncomfortable, can reduce visual quality and may be permanent. Farsighted people may see an improvement at first, but that may diminish with age. And the results for people with large refractive errors is not so good.

After Lasic Eye Surgery, some people who previously wore glasses for everyday use and glasses for reading, lose that option. They say it’s like keeping your contacts in and trying to read with them. This was reported in the New York Times, March 2008.

Lasic eye Surgery can overcorrect or undercorrect your visual problem. This leaves 5 to 10% of patients who need to have their vision fine-tuned after surgery. The F.D.A. received 140 negative reports relating to Lasic between 1998 and 2006. They suspected many more were not reported. They put together a task force in 2006 to design a clinical trial to explore it after deciding that too few well designed studies had been done.

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