Before You Let Them Cut on Your Eyes.wmv
Published by admin on April 8, 2010
Anyone considering Lasik should carefully consider what can go wrong and the odds of something going wrong, and should understand how the economics of the Lasik industry can cause them harm.
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Anyone with an …
Anyone with an unhappy LASIK result might not broadcast that fact. If only to keep their job. If I were required to drive at night I would have killed someone by now because of my lousy night vision. In the optometrist’s exam chair I’m 20:20. At night I can’t drive.
You are entitled to …
You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. “95% satisfaction” is LASIK industry spin? designed to fool the public. I read the full text of the article and references. Go to lasiknewswire(.)com and read “The Truth Behind LASIK Satisfaction”. The LASIK surgeon-author of that junk article included “somewhat satisfied” patients in the satisfied rate. The author also hid complications (“side effects”) reported by “satisfied” patients, which was in the double digits.
You are entitled to …
You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. “95% satisfaction” is LASIK industry spin designed to fool the public. I read the full text of the article and references. Go to lasiknewswire(.)com and read “The Truth Behind LASIK Satisfaction”. The LASIK surgeon-author of that junk article included “somewhat satisfied” patients in the satisfied rate. The author also hid complications (“side effects”) reported by “satisfied” patients, which was in the double digits.
95% success is …
95% success is different. I went to a high end facility that turns away a lot of patients and you meet the surgeon in advance of surgery. Less than 1 in 800 patients at that facility “if they had it to do all over again would not have LASIK.” To be clear, they told me that most patients can find something they “wish was better” but less than 1/800 would actually undo the surgery if they could. This place also fixes problems but they are not a discount LASIK chain!
@peopleselbow I …
@peopleselbow I have sympathy for your friend, who is an example of one of the things profoundly wrong with our healthcare system. But you cannon begin to compare success rates of cancer therapy – treatment for a disease that is otherwise agonizingly fatal – with those for Lasik, a largely cosmetic procedure on otherwise healthy eyes that only need glasses to see straight.
I am sorry for your …
I am sorry for your friend, who is a great example of one of the many ways that our healthcare system is broken. But you cannot begin to compare success rates for chemo, treatment for a disease that without treatment is almost always fatal (and agonizingly so) and Lasik, which is a largely cosmetic procedure on healthy eyes that just need glasses for vision correction.
Things are looking …
Things are looking up mainly because the days are getting longer. Yesterday it was getting light as I left for work and there was still light on the horizon when I left for home at the end of the day. So for the next seven or eight months I won’t be driving in the dark. I sent back the RGP Wave lenses for a refund. Just too painful to keep in my eyes more than an hour.
Thanks. My had …
Thanks. My had breast cancer and undured a mastectomy and months of chemo. Five years later the doctors say she’s cured. It’s hard to whine about lousy night vision when I see what she went through. But I’d still like to run down that b****** LASIK doctor.
kevin
@crvc56
Hang in …
@crvc56
Hang in there and forgive yourself. I have a hard time letting go but I have to.
Joe,
What are the ” …
Joe,
What are the “success” rates of chemo and radiation therapy? I believe they are low as well so I am not surprised that the medical community is deems the 95% success rate as satisfactory.
My friend went through over 5 years of – chemo, radiation, stem cell and died. Yet his wife is saddled with debt because of the bills.
Hi Kevin, I hope …
Hi Kevin, I hope that over time things will get better and that others will listen to your warning. With much sympathy.
I just got RGP wave …
I just got RGP wave lenses in hopes of helping the starbursting that LASIK left me with. But so far the lenses are painful and do not have the right prescription. I see worse with them. So now I have to make the three-hour drive back to Utah to have them redone.
Not a day goes by that I don’t wish I’d never had LASIK.
kevin
If the industry …
If the industry hype was accurate, you would not have read page after page after page of things going wrong. Most people who have Lasik are happy with it, but there is a substantial number of those for whom it was the beginning of a real nightmare.
You are absolutely …
You are absolutely correct about buyer beware. I’m not sure where you got the 1 in 800 figure but it is a gross underestimate of the percent of people who regret having had Lasik. The industry’s own figure is 5 out of 100.
Superb procedure …
Superb procedure but buyer beware. Avoid the LASIK “chains” where you don’t meet your surgeon until you are having surgery. Otherwise you will get a sales pitch and a screening supervised by an optometrist. Yesterday’s technology is always cheaper. 1 patient out of every 800 patients regret surgery where I went but it cost me over $5K for both eyes but I wanted the best and had ALL of my questions answered before having the surgery!
I came within 10 …
I came within 10 minutes of destroying my life with Lasik. But after reading PAGE AFTER PAGE AFTER PAGE of the things that could go wrong, I bailed. What should I have done? Had my eyes destroyed and then asked God “why didn’t you warn me?”. He DID warn me. And I heeded it. Gives new meaning to the phrase “Thank God”.
@Kleurrijke, have …
@Kleurrijke, have you seen my newest video, LASIK Flap Never Heals – The Sequel? The words are right out of the mouths of LASIK doctors. It’s funny you said “don’t give me ****** stats that reflect 200 persons”, because that’s about how many patients were enrolled in LASIK clincial trials (per trial).
1 on how many had a …
1 on how many had a bad experience … ? don,t give me stats that reflect 200 persons. Get your own opinion but this video is total crap
Don’t get me wrong. …
Don’t get me wrong. I think LASIK sucks. i am just a skeptic and it seems to me that Dr, Boshnick has made quite a little industry for himself. His web site uses a lot of half truths and false information. He dispenses the same Synergeyes and Jupiter lenses that many other OD s do across the country. He uses deception to have people fly to Miami. He is also buddys with one of the top LASIK doctors in the country.
I agree! Any …
I agree! Any doctor who will devote him or herself to treating damage caused by another doctor (at least in my case, the Lasik surgeon and his clinic totally lost interest once it became clear that more eye drops wouldn’t resolve the problems) – and to donate time to those who can’t afford to pay takes one back to the chivalry of the old docs who made house calls.
I gave this video a …
I gave this video a 5-star rating.
I don’t know of a …
I don’t know of a more anti-LASIK optometrist than Dr. Boshnick. He does so much for damaged patients that HE DOESN’T GET PAID FOR. His work doesn’t stop when he leaves his office. I hope he truly is earning a good living because he deserves it, and more.
@peopleselbow
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@peopleselbow
Please let me know where I can find a compassionate knowledgeable doctor who works for free.
@peopleselbow
Your …
@peopleselbow
Your comment “Don’t let Dr. Ed Boshnick fool you” implies that his motivation is strictly pecuniary. His long established practice is partially based on helping those with visual disesase/trauma. He is compensated as would be expected for providing a good/service. He is explicitly anti Lasik as his site states “If you are comfortably wearing contacts or glasses, don’t even think about getting involved with Lasik”.
@midnightcatfight
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@midnightcatfight
…and makes a lot of money selling lenses.
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