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Originally Posted by gar1976
Then, starting with the left eye, a metal cylinder was placed on my eye itself, and you could see a few things bruching across my eye. They then moved to the other eye and did the same thing. This evidently was when they sliced off the corneal flap. Didn't feel anything but pressure.
Once the flaps were cut, the nurse mentioned the doctor was moving the flap, and my vision would disappear. And it did - very, very freaky, even sedated. All of a sudden, your vision goes dark, since I was staring at a light as a target and poof! away it goes.
Then some "zapping" occurs, and slowly you start to see some light and colors again. After a couple minutes, the corneal flap is laid back down, and you can see again. The doctor then adjusted the flap to make sure it was back in place, which was disconcerting to see your world start to shift about while you're not moving at all. Then, he uses a small spong-like thingy to get rid of any air bubbles, and that's it! All done. It then is repeated on the other eye, and off I went!
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I had mine done too, but when they lifted the flap my vision didn't go away it kind of looked like I was looking through a kalediscope. They even took a video of what they were doing that I got to keep. It shows both eyes getting microkeratomed and then one eye getting lasered. I then had to go to a different laser for the other eye, so the video ends. For the other laser they really needed to dialate my eye, so when the laser light hit my eye it actually hurt like a bitch!!! Had a real hard time keeping my eye open (even though it was clamped open) and staring at the light. that eye hurt for about 2-3 hours, most likely from being dialted so much. Got home and went to sleep, woke up about 2 hrs later and could see clearly! I am now 20-15 still in both eyes 1 1/2 yrs later.