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What Causes Someone That Has Lasik Eye Surgery to Lose Their Eyesight Again?
What causes someone that has Lasik eye surgery to lose their eyesight again? Like their eyesight deteriorates as time progresses...and then they're blind again? Why? What the explanation behind this?
Tags: lasik eye surgery, Visual perception, Medical Specialties, Eye surgery, United States, Human Interest, eyesight
Lasik only fixes the problem that is there at the time of the surgery. It doesn't stop the vision from changing again after.
That's why they usually wait until the mid 20's at least to make sure the vision is stable and not changing anymore, but there are never any guarantees that it won't change at some future time.
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LikeDislikeall kinds of things but the 2 most common are:
1) presbyopia. lasik has never & will never treat this. *E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E* over 45 W-I-L-L need reading glasses to see up close. it is going to happen. loads of people falsely believe (or have heard etc) that once you have lasik you're done & you'll never need any form of vision correction ever again...but they're wrong. you'll lose the ability to focus in your early 40's and you will need reading glasses (or reading contacts, etc)
2) regression: some nearsighted people get nearsighted again. usually its b/c they weren't "done" getting nearsighted in the 1st place & they got lasik anyway, or someone thought they were stable but they actually weren't
as a point of clarification: neither of those makes a person "blind". big difference between "blindness" & refractive error
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