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<blockquote data-quote="Marie 2" data-source="post: 2355273" data-attributes="member: 475037"><p>Wow, really easy laser surgery. They do strap your head in, but not tightly, you can still wiggle and blink. But they zap the cornea with a laser beam, in my case 6 times for a very small you can't see hole. When they first do the hole a little bit of pigment flows out and the nurse says it looks like gold powder dust. Weird right? The hole allows the fluid to drain out like it's suppose to normally through the channel that closes off. Hazel colored eyes and its a few second surgery, I guess if you have dark eyes it can take up to 10 minutes because they are denser. And I had normal pressure still, they usually make you wait up to 30 minutes after to make sure if your pressure goes up, it's not too much. But I had low pressure to start with so it's not an issue.</p><p></p><p>But so far so good. I have drops for 3 days to help with any inflammation. Hopefully I keep doing as well! But if I feel okay I could go snorkeling tomorrow. But we have a storm moving in so that will have to wait until next week anyways. The other eye is late next week.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed with Narrow Angle Glaucoma, which is inherited (not diabetic related). It's amazing how fast it happened. Last years appointment there was no sign of anything and because of the extra pictures they take for a diabetic eye check in late summer it showed up 80% closed in the one eye only. By two months later with the specialist appointment the other eye was 80% closed too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marie 2, post: 2355273, member: 475037"] Wow, really easy laser surgery. They do strap your head in, but not tightly, you can still wiggle and blink. But they zap the cornea with a laser beam, in my case 6 times for a very small you can't see hole. When they first do the hole a little bit of pigment flows out and the nurse says it looks like gold powder dust. Weird right? The hole allows the fluid to drain out like it's suppose to normally through the channel that closes off. Hazel colored eyes and its a few second surgery, I guess if you have dark eyes it can take up to 10 minutes because they are denser. And I had normal pressure still, they usually make you wait up to 30 minutes after to make sure if your pressure goes up, it's not too much. But I had low pressure to start with so it's not an issue. But so far so good. I have drops for 3 days to help with any inflammation. Hopefully I keep doing as well! But if I feel okay I could go snorkeling tomorrow. But we have a storm moving in so that will have to wait until next week anyways. The other eye is late next week. I was diagnosed with Narrow Angle Glaucoma, which is inherited (not diabetic related). It's amazing how fast it happened. Last years appointment there was no sign of anything and because of the extra pictures they take for a diabetic eye check in late summer it showed up 80% closed in the one eye only. By two months later with the specialist appointment the other eye was 80% closed too. [/QUOTE]
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