whygetfat on Nostr: Aleena Kanner: "The visual issues [post-LASIK] […] are things like halos, night ...
Aleena Kanner: "The visual issues [post-LASIK] […] are things like halos, night glare. People will have a lot, a lot of dry eyes. That's the number one complaint: chronic dry eyes. Because they're cutting, they're severing the corneal nerve. When you sever the corneal nerve you're decreasing tear production to the eye. Every single LASIK or PRK surgery (PRK is slightly different but I'm pretty sure it has the same sort of variables that happen afterwards) you're automatically signing yourself up for dry eyes. Whether you feel those dry eyes or not, that's a different case.
"There are things you can do for dry eyes. There's something called a Bruder mask. […] There's another mask online that's just heat and you plug it into an electrical outlet and you get automatic heat coming to your eye. And you kind of press it into your eye and it will stimulate tear production. And so that's really a powerful thing for people who are struggling with (just in general) dry eyes (or from post-LASIK). […]
"And then people that have actual binocular dysfunction that get LASIK they will have double vision. Their entire world view will be off. […] I've had two patients come in that have been suicidal post-LASIK because of the complications they had. Because they both had visual dysfunction, actual dysfunction, that was underlying, that was not looked at. So that's much more rare but it does happen. There are support groups, like you mentioned.
"From a PRI-body-movement-asymmetry perspective, what we see is that because we're overcorrected, because when we're getting that eye prescription, we are usually dominant over one side of our body. We were never put into neutral place first. The prescription is going to most likely be off. And that prescription is going to pull us more into our pattern, whether it's a more extension pattern, or it's a more asymmetrical pattern, we're going to find that that LASIK eye surgery will keep us locked up.
"What I'll see with people is I'll do sessions with them, three, four, five sessions, and they're not making changes. And that's because that LASIK is really overriding everything I'm doing. So until I get them a new prescription, I'm going to be stuck fighting with their eyes. And then what we'll typically do with a new prescription, they'll have to get glasses, which is literally the reason they got LASIK in the first place. So it's heartbreaking to tell somebody that 'Hey, you have to get glasses now.'
"But they'll have to get glasses. And usually it'll be a different prescription that maybe has some astigmatism correction or plus. So if they got corrected for distance, they're now going to have a plus correction where it's going to change how they understand space. And it's going to to lighten up that distance prescription to go in the other direction of plus sphere.
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"Some of these people will come in with chronic pain and I'll line it up and it'll be like, 'Oh, we had LASIK on June 2023, and then September 2023 is when your pain, your hip pain, was excruciating, because you couldn't get out of it.' Before LASIK, if you took your glasses off then your body could get to neutral. And you take your glasses off for maybe a few hours a day. Even if it was a wrong prescription, you're allowing your body to still have that oscillation. Now that is 24/7 on you.
"So it's something to really consider before ever doing. . . I mean I think most people that do it that have pain regret it, unfortunately. But there are things you can do. Seeing a provider that has understanding in this field is really something you have to do. And people will travel when they've had LASIK, because those people are quite desperate if they're in pain."
Aleena Kanner, postural restoration provider and certified athletic trainer, with Dr. Alexis Cowan @ 01:34:48–01:39:40 https://youtu.be/ZSaRFltisYY&t=5688
"There are things you can do for dry eyes. There's something called a Bruder mask. […] There's another mask online that's just heat and you plug it into an electrical outlet and you get automatic heat coming to your eye. And you kind of press it into your eye and it will stimulate tear production. And so that's really a powerful thing for people who are struggling with (just in general) dry eyes (or from post-LASIK). […]
"And then people that have actual binocular dysfunction that get LASIK they will have double vision. Their entire world view will be off. […] I've had two patients come in that have been suicidal post-LASIK because of the complications they had. Because they both had visual dysfunction, actual dysfunction, that was underlying, that was not looked at. So that's much more rare but it does happen. There are support groups, like you mentioned.
"From a PRI-body-movement-asymmetry perspective, what we see is that because we're overcorrected, because when we're getting that eye prescription, we are usually dominant over one side of our body. We were never put into neutral place first. The prescription is going to most likely be off. And that prescription is going to pull us more into our pattern, whether it's a more extension pattern, or it's a more asymmetrical pattern, we're going to find that that LASIK eye surgery will keep us locked up.
"What I'll see with people is I'll do sessions with them, three, four, five sessions, and they're not making changes. And that's because that LASIK is really overriding everything I'm doing. So until I get them a new prescription, I'm going to be stuck fighting with their eyes. And then what we'll typically do with a new prescription, they'll have to get glasses, which is literally the reason they got LASIK in the first place. So it's heartbreaking to tell somebody that 'Hey, you have to get glasses now.'
"But they'll have to get glasses. And usually it'll be a different prescription that maybe has some astigmatism correction or plus. So if they got corrected for distance, they're now going to have a plus correction where it's going to change how they understand space. And it's going to to lighten up that distance prescription to go in the other direction of plus sphere.
[…]
"Some of these people will come in with chronic pain and I'll line it up and it'll be like, 'Oh, we had LASIK on June 2023, and then September 2023 is when your pain, your hip pain, was excruciating, because you couldn't get out of it.' Before LASIK, if you took your glasses off then your body could get to neutral. And you take your glasses off for maybe a few hours a day. Even if it was a wrong prescription, you're allowing your body to still have that oscillation. Now that is 24/7 on you.
"So it's something to really consider before ever doing. . . I mean I think most people that do it that have pain regret it, unfortunately. But there are things you can do. Seeing a provider that has understanding in this field is really something you have to do. And people will travel when they've had LASIK, because those people are quite desperate if they're in pain."
Aleena Kanner, postural restoration provider and certified athletic trainer, with Dr. Alexis Cowan @ 01:34:48–01:39:40 https://youtu.be/ZSaRFltisYY&t=5688