PRK vs LASIK Eye Surgery – Procedure, Recovery and Cost
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Learn the differences between prk and lasik! In this video we review how laser eye surgery works, an overview of the prk procedure vs the lasik eye surgery procedure, the cost of lasik vs prk and some pros and cons.
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—- Key Items Reviewed in this video —-
The PRK procedure vs the LASIK eye surgery procedure
Prk eye surgery recovery vs lasik recovery
LASIK vs PRK: Dry eyes, lifestyle, corneal thickness
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About This Video:
Prk surgery is a commonly performed eye laser surgery as an alternative to lasik. If you have been considering lasik eye surgery, then you may have heard of prk surgery and wondered about this form of laser eye surgery procedure. Although both of these eye surgeries have very similar results in visual recovery, prk requires a longer recovery time vs lasik. In addition, there are several other factors to consider between lasik vs prk. This video briefly discusses how corneal thickness, dry eyes and cost of the procedures may influence which procedure you go with.
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QOTD ? Which Procedure do you think is better? Have you or a family member gone through refractive surgery? How did it go?
I watched your video before getting PRK, and your video encouraged me to do it, one of the best decisions in my life! I don’t have to worry anymore on buying glasses or contacts and all that stuff, it’s amazing to wake up in the morning and everything is clear!
What would you say is a better procedure for someone who experiences Anxiety?
@vinit chaudhary omg smile is the worst Google the weather girl who committed suicide because of smile she is on YouTube too.
4 days post lasik, and I am incredibly happy with the results already!!! It’s life changing! I had terrible vision (couldn’t see the big E on the eye chart) and severe astigmatism. Already 20/20!!!!
I’ve done a PRK 3 months ago and I am extremely happy about it! Everything is perfect so far and the recovery time wasn’t that long. I did a “Streamlight” method which is the newest version of the PRK ?
P.S. I’ve watched lots of your videos before the surgery and that helped me a lot! Thank you for the great content!!!
I wish doctors could just make drops that give you 2020 vision
Exactly
Even if they could, they wouldn’t (not even advertise it)….less $$$ for them
as i know that will available soon
@troy batinga I’ve got high prescription
For sure ???
So i have to either risk drying my eyes out forever and PAY hundreds of dollars for someone to SLICE my cornea OR wear contacts/glasses till i die when my eyes are getting worse everyday and with a fear of going blind eventually?!!. Bruh people who have natural perfect vision are really so darn lucky
@Emmanuel Juma There is a 3rg procedure you could look into called SMILE thats the one im considering.
Bro it’s not that bad I had terrible vision and I got LASIK and I’m perfectly fine it’s so amazing looking at the world with my eyes now and my was scared that I would be depending on eye drops due to dry eyes but after like 3 weeks I don’t need lubercating eye drops anymore
Did he not say the risk of eye dryness is for lasik?
@Emmanuel Juma yeah
@Miller logeswaran for every surgery. there are tons of people that get dry eyes after prk too… forever.. So basically it is a lottery.
Got my lasik surgery like five years ago. They guaranteed the life time care service for free after surgery and I go get checked up every year or two when I can. Very satisfied with the life changing decision I’ve made. Been having 10/10 visions and can’t be happier than before. You just have to get it done at the right place.
Is it necessary to visit doctor after surgery
Is lasik surgery painful?
Got my PRK surgery 7 years ago. When I was 30 years old. After that time I developed MGD and dry eye syndrom. It has been very uncomfortable and frustrating. I don’t recommend any of those surgeries. I regret it and would have preferred wearing glasses for the rest of my life and have healthy eyes.
@Toto 4ever OMG Google the weather girl she committed suicide because of smile there are YouTube vidéos of her.
I don’t want to get eye surgery but I’m also terrified of some world ending event happening and be being without glasses for the rest of my life. It worries me that one of the things between me and possible survival in life is plastic and 2 pieces of glass
YO I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME ?. Like how am I supposed to get an apocalypse boyfriend if I’m wearing glasses all the time or (if I lose them) if I can’t even see. I guess I could raid contact lenses from the optometry but like, that’s an extra risk ya know? (esp w the world ending and all)
Same!
I get that completely
Lol, I’ve literally always had this thought and assumed I was the only one.
@Fluffy PolarBear if this boyfriend is carrying a baseball bat wrapped with barbed wire , then you should be ok. The bat is named Lucille btw.
Lasik legit looks like peeling a grape.
they did surgery on a grape :0
From what I’ve heard, they did surgery on a grape.
The da vinci way
I KNOW RIGHT LOL
I had LASIK in AUGUST/2005. I was (Left): -10.00 (Right): -10.50 My recovery was very, very, slow.
And my left and right eyes had very different recovery time. One (Left) achieved sharp vision in about 4 months and the (right)
eye was only completely recovered in about (8 months). The problem with that was that due to the difference in both eyes I started to
have double vision. My doctor stated that this was normal due to my high Miopy. But before my surgery I had never read comments
of such a slow recovery and I almost became desperate thinking my surgery was a disaster…
But, after this long suffering my vision became absolutely sharp clear (in the left eye) and (90% clear on the right eye) and now,
even 15 years after it, I don’t need any glasses or contact lens.
But, I have to say that I have little guilt in this story…
Before the surgery (3 or 4 years) I had a small lesion in the right eye cornea, due to the abuse of contact lens wear. I only wore
contact lenses because my glasses have not given me a clear and sharp vision for a long time, besides distorting the vision at the
edges of the lens. And I love to swim, mountain climbing, skydiving, etc.
Ps(1).: The surgeon told me that I was a good candidate for Lasik procedure, because my corneas were quite thick.
Ps(2).: My myopia only stabilized at the age of 33 (!). I then had the surgery at the age of 37. Now I’m 51. The problem is that many people do not expect myopia to stabilize, and it varies from person to person. Do not believe doctors who say such an age is a guarantee of success …
Ps(3).: The halos around the lamps took almost a year to disappear.
Ps(4).: Before surgery I had excess tears production, for instance, when I got the flu it was common for my eyelids to swell up I looked like a frog (!). Then the side effect (drier eyes) ended up helping me
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Ps(5).: My wife also had LASIK and came out of cirurgy with perfect vision, but her degree of miopy was a lot of easier: -3.00 | -3:00
Ps(6).: If you ask me: Are you satisfayed with your procedure? For sure, today, I’m s 100% satisfayed. The improvment in my life quality was dramatic, but, at the time, and during those 8 months, it was quite a nightmare….
Ps(7).: sorry for the comment so long … but I would have liked, at the time, a more detailed description of the post-operative of those who went through difficulties and overcame!
Important: Remember that any myopia surgery does NOT eliminate myopia. It just corrects the vision. All the problems of (high) myopia are still there: bad night vision, easy retinal detachment … that’s why I keep doing, at least 3 or 4 retinal mappings every year. When it comes to vision, it is better to sin by excess !!
@Dalton Dyson No, in fact I never had participate in contact sports. Although I like them, they’re forbidden to me, since my eye still keeps the myopia shape. So the worst risk here is the retinal detachment and NOT the lasik flap. In fact, the cornea recovers very well after some months, and after almost 16 years after the cirurgy, I never had any cornea problems. A word of advice, if you are nearsighted protect (double) your eyes from direct hits. In fact, even hits to the head can cause retinal detachments. My doctor also advised me to avoid parachute jumping…
Have you participated in contacts sports since you got the surgery? Gotten in the face hard? Curious as to how durable the lasik flap is.
@Ebony-ptrco5 thank you for sharing your experience ??
Woah you had lasik surgery a few months before I was born (nov 2005) that’s actually pretty cool :0
@Audrey Maulina I’m not an (English native speaker) so I translated “floaters” into the correspondent Portuguese word (“moscas volantes”). But I know what you mean…
No, I never saw the “traditional” floaters with opened eyes. To say the truth, with closed eyes on a very bright place, sometimes I see very little “floaters” but as soon as I open my eyes they disapear (or I can’t note their presence). But this was always there, before and after my procedure…
One thing you have to pay special attention is to “white flashes”: they are the result of a mechanical stimulus of the retina, and may indicate the beginning of a retinal detachment.
This I already had before LASIK and I ran to the hospital and a small retinal fissure was detected and fixed in time with a laser. But since it was at the very beginning and in a very peripheral area of the retina
it didn’t leave me with any flaws in vision.
Not sure which made me wince more, the descriptions of both surgeries or the comments! Truly a great and informative video! Very helpful.
I have done both. Lasik is immediately results but I had halos few month after. I also had frequent dry eye so my doctor put a plug in the tear gland.
My 2nd was prk… I had a freak accident and prk correct it. It was very complicated pain wise. I literally slept for 4 days.. wake up medicate the eyes pain management and sleep
I had it it bad
It was the prices for me! ??
He’s a doctor and still wears contacts. I’m not doing it?
@Convict147 thank you so much, you’re so kind, took out time to explain everything. And reading this definitely gave me some courage to get done surgery in future. Yeah my eye glasses number has increased, i got my eye checkup last month, as you said i should probably wait for my vision to stabilize and then get the treatment done. Again thank you sooo much, you’re such a sweetheart ??
@Mannat Pruthi there is basically no risk to doing the surgery. Worst case if there are problems after lasik surgery, then you would have to do lasek to fix any issues. At least thats that my surgeon told me. You’re 18, so you are basically ok to do it, but keep in mind, the eye can still chamge its shape until about 25 years, so if your vision has worsened in the years, it might be a good idea to delay the surgery for a few years until your vision stabilises. Im 25, and my vision hasnt changed since i put my first glasses on for 7 years. Now i see better than i could ever do before, literally binocular vision, can see signs clearly a mile away. Keep in mind that even after surgery, theres a chance that a small percent of your vision will be less than perfect, but it would only be noticed by an eye exam, you wont feel a difference
@Convict147 BTW how old were you when you got the surgery done? And is your vision perfectly fine now like it used to be before you got glasses?
@Convict147 yeah, i just read it. I’m 18 and my mother says i should get the lasik done, even though the chances of surgery going wrong are pretty much less, but i feel i may be unlucky enough that surgery can go wrong on me and I’ll loose my eyes to it.. ???
@Mannat Pruthi i did! Read last comments ?
My vision was -8.50 in both eyes until 2 weeks ago when I had LASIK. I dont remember a time in my life when I didnt need help to see. I couldn’t wear contacts, and my depth perception was distorted by my glasses.
This was seriously a terrifying procedure. I felt like Woody in Toy Story. Being cleaned up by the toy specialist. But I cant recommend it more for someone who is eligible with a higher prescription. I now see 20/15 without glasses. I can wear sunglasses that dont cost $100 anymore. I can see to shave in the shower.
I know i have a few decades of life ahead of me, and Im not sure how my vision will change as I age, but right now, even while im still on medicated eye drops, Im really happy I did the procedure.
@Trevor Smith can you see well now?
I’m 27 and getting lasik next Saturday. My eyes are -8 and -8.25, I’m only worried about side effects. I already have dry eye problems and hope this procedure doesn’t make it worse. But being able to see normally with no toric contacts will be great.
@Abshir Salaad hope your fine now we are tired of myopia
Why did u go with LASIK and not ICL implants? I’ve read that with higher prescription they are sometimes preferred.
@gurjodh dhillon honestly, I hadn’t even heard of them until recently. My insurance would pay for a large chunk of the lasik cost, and from the little research I’ve done, they are typically recommended to people who can’t/won’t have Lasik/PRK.
If you’ve been thinking about getting lasik, do it. The longer you wait, the more diminishing returns you have for it. Mine was $4000, but you can finance it and it’s literally something you use every waking hour.
And contacts and glasses add up quickly
Alright cool, I’m just going to buy some new glasses and call it a day…?
@M Hafis OMG..
LASIK is good.
PRK? Nahhhh
Watch this Lasik Surgery https://youtu.be/JFW2nKZ_g3M
lol right?
After reading these comments, I think I will just stick with glasses and contacts
J Nick well?
Do you love your new vision?
@Octo your loss homie. Nobody is forcing you.
@J Nick I hope the best for you. Take care ?
@Octo Well I’ll let you know how I’m feeling in a few months but after a week so far so good.
Oh my goodness I’m scared after reading these replies. I was thinking of getting lasik done because I absolutely hate glasses and scared of contact lenses. I watched your videos on contacts and now thinking of getting some! Your video really helped! Thank you!
I’ve been wanted to getting LASIK for forever, but after considering all eye doctors wear eye glasses or contact lenses gave me huge doubts about that. I would get it, if more than 60% of eye doctors had a procedure and r still encouraging their patients to get it.
@JC McQueen also look at prominent film makers, the vast majority of them still wear glasses or contacts, I wonder why.
As some orthodontist have curved teeth
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@Octo what doctors haven’t done it? Do you have stats or just anecdotes? None of my eye doctors wear glasses.
@J Nick Lasik is touted as a simple 1 minute procedure that is the “gold standard” that is “beyond excellent” that is the “best decision”. Why wouldn’t these doctors sit in their own expensive machines and improve their life for the cost of 1 minute. Yeah no. This exposes medical dealership infesting the eye industry. Lasik is a golden goose and they make a killing off it
My whole body hurts from watching and hearing this.
Lmao true
FAX
I’m so glad you did this video Dr Allen. Everything was explained in terms that laypersons can easily understand. Keep up the great work! Could you possibly do a future video about Basement Membrane disease? My oldest sister had PK laser surgery for that about fourteen years ago.
Got PRK couple years ago, it has been great. Love it!!!
@Josephine L totally cannot drive the 1st week. I just rest and sleep. The doctor even give 7 days off. Its been 3 years plus and it was great.
@Rool Jeffry how were things after the 1st week – are u able to drive by then? i was thinking of doing PRK too
@Rool Jeffry just telling him what’s better, ofcourse if he/she has corneal thickness that is not able to do lasik then prk is the only choice but otherwise lasik is better
I had PRK. I didn’t have to worry about dry eye, corneal neuralgia, or corneal ectasia. PRK takes longer for vision to stabilize but why cut your cornea if you don’t have to.
My aunt had Lasix and is EXTREMELY happy she did it. 20+years later and seeing great! It was very new when she got it done so I’m sure in the time that has passed it has gotten a lot better too.
Your ability to speak in a way that anybody can understand is not an easy task, and I hope to be the same way when I am in your shoes Doc.