Can your vision go back the way it was after laser eye surgery?!

Can your vision go back the way it was after laser eye surgery?

I'm thinking about ditching my pair of glasses. If I were to go to Lasik for example and have the treatment, is it possible that a few years from then my vision can go back the way it was? Btw, im about 5.3 on both sides and it's pretty stable for a year or two now. All serious answers will be appreciated. Thank you.

1 week ago
So will the regression after two years be a linear pattern or a exponential one?

LASIK will correct your vision to as good as it was corrected with glasses...so if you see 20/20 with your glasses on...there is a very good change you will see 20/20 after LASIK.

Most people will, once they hit their 40s, need reading glasses. This is because the lens, not the cornea, stiffens with age...people who haven't had LASIK have this same problem.

With the exception of most likely needing reading glasses starting in your 40s, unless a totally different eye problem surfaces that causes decreased vision retinal degenerative disorders, cataracts), you will have the same vision as you have once the healing process has finished postoperatively.

I had PRK a little over three weeks ago...and my vision is almost to 20/20 in my right eye and 20/20+ in my left. I'm still healing. My doctor expects that once my healing course is through, going by what I'm seeing now, I will be able to attain the 20/20 vision that I had achieved with contacts. I know that in a few years, I will need reading glasses, but so do most people.

The regression you mention...it isn't the same as needing to have glasses with a -5.3 strength that you have now...it is just needing a little + factor to help with reading.

As with any surgery, there are risks, postop complications, and there are certain criteria that need to be met prior to becoming a candidate (no glaucoma, no cataracts, no existing corneal diseases like Fuchs', corneal thickness must be of a certain value to name a few).

I personally can live with the fact that eventually I will need readers, but compared to the cost of my glasses and contacts, that's nothing.

The link below is to articles written by ophthalmologists. Choose the 'Myopia' links to read more about how each of the technologies available help, what their contraindications (who shouldn't have the surgery) are, risks, complications, and expected outcomes based on studies that have been performed. If you are farsighted (hyperopic), choose those links.

In short, assuming your eye health stays as good as it is today, you won't regress to needing the same strength glasses you have right now. The main reasons for visual decline after LASIK have to do with other, non-refractive conditions like age-related macular degeneration, degenerative corneal problems, cataracts, and other ocular diseases that are out there that tend to affect us in our older age.

I hope this helps. Laser surgery has come a long way since 1995 and the long-term outcomes are promising. Less than 5% of surgery recipients has a continuing complication 3 months or longer after surgery...and it really depends on your surgeon...the better education, the more experience the better...do not go by cost alone...I'm a strong believer that you get what you pay for...and vice versa.