There is so much potential for profit in the LASIK industry that serious Report your bad LASIK outcome to the FDA
The FDA tracks adverse events with medical devices through its MedWatch program.
Starbursts, halos, multiple images, night driving difficulty, severe dry eyes and other complications after LASIK should be reported to the FDA. Use the following link to report a bad outcome from LASIK:
MedWatch online reporting form.
LasikTube
See videos of patients with LASIK complications. Watch news reports of widespread problems of LASIK. Listen in on the April, 2008 FDA hearing as medical doctors, optometrists, psychologists, and injured LASIK patients testify about complications, loss of quality of life, depression and suicide:
LasikTube
The latest hype: IntraLase, IntraLASIK, iLASIK, bladeless, all laser, femtosecond laser LASIK, problems, risks, complications
The LASIK industry hopes to improve the public perception of LASIK with marketing hype of the latest technology in LASIK flap creation. Don't be fooled by bladeless LASIK safety claims -- this technology has created a whole new set of problems and side effects.
FDA advisers: Clearer LASIK warnings needed
CNN.com 04/25/2008
From the article: "A panel of medical advisers -- mostly eye doctors wearing glasses -- listened to tales of woe and wonder Friday from people who sought to get rid of their specs through LASIK surgery... Not everyone is a good candidate for LASIK surgery, and some suffer adverse side-effects... Matt Kotsovolos, who worked for the Duke Eye Center when he had a more sophisticated LASIK procedure in 2006, said doctors classify him as a success because he now has 20-20 vision. But he said, "For the last two years I have suffered debilitating and unremitting eye pain. ... Patients do not want to continue to exist as helpless victims with no voice."...That's a big reason that Weiss, the ophthalmologist, won't get LASIK even though she offers it to her patients. "I can read without my glasses and ... operate without my glasses, and I love that," she said. "The second aspect is I would not tolerate any risk for myself."
LASIK-Flap.com
Documenting the history of the refractive surgery industry, from the cover-ups and conflicts of interest to the kickbacks and the medical studies showing how LASIK damages healthy eyes. LASIK-Flap.com has an active patient bulletin board and informative research forums.
Posted on the bulletin board by patients:
"If my doctor simply would have held a gun to my back and demanded I give him $5000 (and not perform Lasik on me), I gladly would have complied and would have been thankful later the experience was behind me".
"My lasik travesty then began in mid-2003, where, after a lengthy sales pitch and many lies, I was butchered."
Go to LASIK-Flap.com
An Inconvenient Truth - The LASIK Report
The LASIK Report is a literature review of LASIK. The report concludes that LASIK is an inherently harmful procedure and should be abandoned. From the report:
"Early clinical trials did not thoroughly examine adverse effects of LASIK. Since that time, numerous medical studies have examined the risks of LASIK. It is now widely reported in ophthalmic medical journals that complications such as dry eye and visual disturbances in low light are common, and that creation of the corneal flap permanently compromises tensile strength and biomechanical integrity of the cornea."
Patient Satisfaction after LASIK
Most LASIK patients claim to be satisfied with their results. But is a "happy" patient a patient without side effects or complications? Surprisingly, patients may be satisfied with their visual outcome after LASIK, yet face chronic dry eyes and poor night vision.
A closer look at patient satisfaction after LASIK
Notable Quotes:
"Indeed, the long-term problems created by laser refractive surgery are not yet a major issue, but soon will be".
From: Refractive surgery: lessons to be learned.
Clin Experiment Ophthalmol. 2005 Apr;33(2):115-6.Mantry S, Shah S.
Lee T. Nordan, MD: "It has taken us more than half of this decade to learn the risk factors associated with a LASIK flap."
Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, May 2006
"Unfortunately, because of long term complications of LASIK, such as keratectasia, this procedure is used more cautiously."
Karimian et al, J Refract Surg. 2007 Mar;23(3):312-5.
Thomas R. Quackenbush, Vision Educator: "A primary tenet of orthodox medicine has been never to perform surgery on healthy tissue. It appears this tenet has now changed. Obviously, many people have better acuity soon after these surgeries--but what about the long-term consequences?" Source: Relearning to See
Arthur B. Epstein, O.D.: “... many of us in the contact lens community have spent untold hours trying to help patients who have had their lives literally destroyed by LASIK.”
Review of Optometry, November 2006
The Cool Laser Beam Gently Sculpts Your Cornea..." or so the sales pitch goes.
An actual photo of a laser shot fired at a cornea. Looks more like a nuclear bomb, doesn't it? As it turns out, some people don't like the smell of burning flesh...
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