Anyone Out There With Bad Vision?!
Question:
Anyone Out There With Bad Vision?
I'm really young and I already have extremely bad vision. My right eye is -9.00 diopters, my left -7.00.
Could LASIK entirely cure it? Also, I have a question about LASIK. Let's say my vision is -9.00D (which it is) and a laser that cures up to -7.00 is used on it. Would I be left with -2.00D?
Thank you!
Answers:
You have signifcant MYOPIA. This level of nearsightedness can be helped with Cornea surgery, LASIK and you'd be glad you did the surgery if everything went well. But people with this degree of myopia also have retinal problems, so be sure to see a retina specialist first to make sure the manipulation during the laser surgery won't cause a retinal detachment.
The number indicates how powerful your eyes are. The formula is P=1/m where P is the power...the -9, and m is meters. so it's one over the distance in meters, which for you is 1/9 of a meter or just over 10 cm.
if you were a -1 you'd be focused 1 meter away.
if you were a -2, a half meter away.
-3, a third of a meter away.
This advise is coming from someone who fixes retinas.
A retinal detachment is a -9 eye is VERY difficult to fix, statistically.