2 years checkup

Today I did my 2 years checkup although it’s soon 2 years and 1 month since I did my TransPRK eye laser surgery. In Switzerland where I live you usually don’t do a checkup after 2 years (normally last one is at 1y) but its recommended to do a yearly checkup of eye health, especially for people who did eye laser surgery. I choose to do it as I wanted to check my general eye health, do a vision test and talk to the surgeon about why I still have dry eye symptoms (although very mild now). I will break this post down accordingly below.

General Eye Health

My general eye health was fine. I had normal eye pressure and my cornea looked healthy. Nothing special to comment here.

Vision Acuity Test

My vision was unchanged since the 1 year checkup, which was exactly what I hoped for. I could see the 1.0 line very clearly with one eye open at the time and with both eyes open I got all digits right on the 1.25 line.

I am very happy my vision stayed on this level after 2 years. This is really more than I could ever have hoped for since I only achieved about 1.0 binocular with contact lenses and glasses before the surgery.

Quick translation for those of you that are used to a different scale:

Decimal (used in Europe)    Foot (used in US)            Popular talk

1.0                                                     20/20                                          100%

1.25                                                    20/16                                         125%

             

Dry Eye Symptom

I got confirmed that my eyes are a bit dry. I was however told that it’s not because my tear glands produce too little tears, instead it’s my eye lids that produce too much tallow. I was recommended a treatment of cleaning the eye lids in the evening and putting in a night cream. I will make a new post in a month commenting on how this worked out.

2 years

Already 2 years have passed since I did my TransPRK eye laser surgery. Everything feels good, except that I am still a bit dry sometimes. Vision feels sharp.

Decided to actually go for a 2 years checkup to check vision, health and humidity/dryness levels of my eyes. Will write on the blog again after I have done this.

23.5 months

23.5 months today - not much new to report. Trying a new Type of Systane drop and a spray called "Tears again". I have a feeling they work pretty good, I drop quite infrequent. Will make a larger update here after I pass the 2 year mark.

22 months update

So, more then 22 months have passed since my TransPRK eye laser surgery. Not much changes to report since my 21 month update, I still see very good and I use even less lubricating eye drops compared to one month ago. I think I am starting to get my nerve recovery status back over some threshold where I soon don't need to drop any more. Compared to the same time one year ago, I am dropping significantly less. Getting more and more happy with my decision to do this surgery.

Next update in a month.