Day 1 - Day of the first post-opp checkup

Had the post opp checkup in the morning. I felt more discomfort in right eye then the left. Doctor told me both looked normal and gave me a new appointment for removal of the contact lenses on Day 4.

I could use my phone a bit this day, although it was very difficult to read the screen. TV was also tricky. Could see good enough to handle most daily tasks on my own already. However, when I looked myself in the mirror from a close distance, I had a "foggy/cloudy" vision.

The good news was that the bad pain was gone. Only a slight feeling of "dirt in the eye" left, especially in my right eye.

Day - 0 - Surgery day

This was a nervous day, I was almost bailing out in the morning despite the fact that I was seriously thinking about doing eye surgery for the last five years. My correction was -2.75 (nearsighted) on both eyes, and  -0.75 astigmatism per eye.

At the laser-clinic a nurse talked me through the drops I need to take, gave me painkillers and relaxing pills. I think we spent nearly 30 min talking about the post-surgery drops. This might seem a lot, but it is very important, pay attention, as after the surgery you cannot read until next day.
Surgery itself went smoothly. 35 seconds per eye plus 10 seconds of some medicine on the eye, then the protective contact lenses were put on. Directly after the surgery I could see further then I could before without contacts or glasses, however, my vision was very foggy on all distances and I couldn't read anything, neither on paper or on my IPhone.

 Walked home in sunglasses with the help of my girlfriend.

The first 3 hours was painful, and I had to sit with closed eyes. After the 3 hours the dropping start. The first day it means dropping every 30 min until bed time. Got 4 different drops, one lubricating drop, one cortisone drop, one antibiotic drop and one steroid drop. The pain during hour 4 to the morning after was pretty bad so I took 9 painkillers, then it was okay.

Went to bed early and slept 12 hours, slept with protective googles provided by the clinic.

Welcome

Welcome to this little blog. The purpose of this blog is to share my TransPRK story. I did my TransPRK eye surgery in March 2015 in Zürich, Switzerland.


TransPRK is a modern form of the PRK surgery where the laser do the whole job. TransPRK also goes under popular names such as "no-cut" or "no-touch".


First a link to Wikipedia to get you started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transepithelial_photorefractive_keratectomy

If anyone out there in the world are thinking of this type of surgery, leave a comment here on the blog and I will try to answer based on my own experience.