Tony

I had LASIK done in April of 1998. I went in like everyone else and was told that I was the perfect candidate. Only a normal exam prior. Never asked me about dry eyes. Never mentioned about payments after 6 months.

I noticed right off that I had a bit of trouble in the beginning right after the surgery. The vision in my right eye was not the same as my left. I had 20/15 in my left eye and 20/30 in my right with the old astigmatism that I was told would be corrected by the surgery.....I was told to come back in a month..

In May, both eyes were 20/30 after a month and the astigmatism had not cleared. I was seen by a doctor other than my surgeon. I told him that my right eye never cleared and I that I experienced ghosting which was particularly bothersome because it was my dominant eye.

He told me that my eyes were going to get worse and that the only thing that I could do was to "get glasses". I asked him "what do you mean?". I demanded to be seen by my original surgeon. He said come back in June. I arrived for my appointment in June and there was no record of my having had an appointment so I returned in July.

This time I was seen by yet another doctor who also said "you need glasses". This doctor also gave me steroid drops and told me that my eyes "looked fine". I made another appointment for August. This time I was seen by yet another doctor who said "everything looks great". I asked him why I was having these problems here my left eye is only clear for a couple hours and my right eye continued to see double. He told me it looks like your eyes are dry and gave me some other eye drops.

When I went back for an appointment six months after they said I would now have to pay. Finally, after 6 months, I see the original surgeon who says maybe you are diabetic? and that I have dry eyes. Plugs were put.

Two weeks after 6 months period asked me "if I had insurance". I asked to see the original doctor again. I got one the day after and another doctor saw me instead telling me about his eyes, wife's eyes, his daughter's eyes. We'll put you into glasses is what he said.Now I am in bifocals.

Before I could see. I am 49 years old. I did not want monovision, but now I have it.