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.
