LASIK Starbursts - Warning!

lasikcomplications.com/starbur... Starbursts after LASIK. Patients with large pupils may suffer severe visual disturbances at night after LASIK. If you experience debilitating night vision impairment after LASIK your surgeon may still consider your surgery a success. Don't fall for the LASIK hype. Read lasikcomplications.com.

[@thetruth8699]

Kenny Perry, a top pro golfer, dropped out of the 2008 PGA tour due to LASIK related issues. Kenny Perry has had 2 LASIK surgeries on both eyes about 8 years ago. With LASIK, you can have major problems immediately or further down the road. LASIK is the only elective surgery that alters the function of a healthy, significant sensory organ. The best thing to do is to NOT let someone shoot laser beams into your eyes.

[@MyMetroPolice]

I was also disabled by the greedy unethical laser vision surgeons. Constant severe dry eyes for more than three years. Night vision ruined and relentless pain. I see halos and ghosting/starbusts too. Lost my job and career. Lost my house and everything else cause I can't drive at night. Lasik Vision institute ruineb my life and the Dr. was Anthony Roberts in Md. Beware.

[@user-wd2ql9lt7l]

How do you feel now? Im in the same boat. My life got much worse

[@jlaba22]

Even patients who do achieve 20/20 vision acuity post-LASIK can have other problems. They may read the small lines on an eye chart, but they may be seeing it double or with halos around the letters. Another common problem can be night driving difficulty. Oncoming headlights can cause starbursts so severe that it may be hard for some post-LASIK patients to see the road. Ophthalmologists will still classify you as a "success" with these distorted vision problems based on your VISION ACUITY ONLY!

[@LASIKComplications]

If the starbursts are related to "healing" then logically you should see gradual improvement, and they should resolve within a few months. My LASIK surgeon told me that starbursts get better over time. For me, that was not true. My pupil size should have disqualified me as a candidate for PRK or LASIK.

[@sinfulbeliever7083]

I was told the same. Its been 6 years. I still see the starbursts.

[@CHEESER7]

my pupil size is 3.16mm(left eye) and 3.58(right eye), its been 1 week since i did my femto contoura lasik surgery. i see starbursts at night, will it eventually go away?

[@LASIKComplications]

@@CHEESER7 Those measurements don't seem to be accurate for scotopic (dark) pupil size -- It is very unusual to have pupils that small. Most LASIK patients have 6 mm pupils or larger.

[@eramshaikh_21397]

​These can be treated by contact lenses but what about floaters....i developed lots after Lasik...i regret it so much

[@HiteshBHADRA456]

Even i regret it..there is no option except crying..its almost more than one year, still i m facing dry eyes, starburst and hallos in night, worst night vision..i only have memory with me when i wear glass

[@smugi-airborne]

It's been a month and I have double vision, halos and bubbling stars. In my opinion I do not recommend surgery

[@wendyb9923]

this is exactly what i see when trying to drive at night. its very wierd, when night driving it ofter is hard to understand what I am seeing on the roadway. It ofter looks like a spaceship has landed on the roadway up ahead of me. I also have a lot of double vision and now after 20 years since my lasick I wear glasses again, my corneas are not eligible for contacts because of the shape of them. it was great not having to wear my heavy glasses for about 10 years but now I love with the double vision and starburst. i can not pass the eye test for drivers license without a new stronger prescription glasses each year. I am almost at the same very strong RX lenses I started at -7 and -9

[@crvc56]

I had LASIK nearly ten years ago. I didn't and don't suffer with dry eye problems. But I have the starbursting shown above. The starbursting can be shrunk somewhat if I use eyedrops that constrict my pupils. But then my vision is like wearing sunglasses at night. RGP contacts can help many cases but don't consrict my pupils enough to help me.

[@nr9466]

Hi Kevin, I saw your comment now, after 10 years, please if you are reading answer, this problems appeared after 10 years from. Lasik? Or they were always present? I am scared, because I never had this simptoms in 7 years after Lasik, but now I see all this halos and Starburst Ing, I am getting crazy :(

[@RexxReviews]

its funny, I have an astigmatism so I always see starburst's without my contacts or glasses. I wonder if that surgery is doing something to the eye that makes it like astigmatism

[@eramshaikh_21397]

Ya Lasik induces irregular astigmatism

[@lovepreetsingh1671]

I had prk surgery before 5 yrs and I am still struggling with these starburst double vision etc. 😔😔

[@007foppe]

i have starburst for a very long time now did have lasik , it is because you iris expands beyond the treatmend zone if you have like 8m pupils and the treatmend area is for example 5m you wil have garanteed starburst and other complications

[@zachhecksel2920]

I had LASIK and just want to add my opinion...I see Starbursts but only half as bad as this video shows and I don't have any double vision like shown. I agree that it is a terrible complication though. Definitely made my night driving less enjoyable.

[@SAES335]

It is the video that is of great interest. I became a appearance that is similar to after cataract surgery. Glare and smear has been mixed in there.

[@LASIKComplications]

Have you tried rigid scleral contact lenses?

[@LASIKComplications]

@redeye117 For some LASIK patients it *is* as bad as shown in this video. I know from experience. When it's this bad, you never get used to it, and it makes driving at night nearly impossible and very dangerous.

[@number8820]

I'm dealing with it, and it's so hard

[@alaa2003net]

i have like this issue , How can i fix it for ever ?

[@LASIKComplications]

You should ask your optometrist about these lenses. They have been a lifesaver for many LASIK, PRK, RK patients who experience visual aberrations such as starbursts. If your optometrist is not familiar with the lenses, find another optometrist who has experience with them. Best wishes.

[@exhaviour]

I had PRK almost two years ago and I am having problems with moderate star-bursting and haloing. I find that this problem can get better or worse depending the night. I do have a piece of advice for drivers having issues with Star-Bursting and Haloing and that is turning on your cab lights. Sounds strange I know but it really does take most of the bursting/haloing away at the times when you need it most.

[@number8820]

I found this solution two days ago, I think the logic to it is that the light reduces the pupil size

[@LASIKComplications]

@deathscyte9 No, sunglasses at night do not help.

[@jzk2020]

update?

[@MMAunlimited856]

Refractive eye surgery is the devil. It ruined my life. People need to go out there and spread how dangerous these procedures are. If you’re not doing that then you are part of the problem.

[@shivampahuja2865]

They need only money .dr don.t care about your eye

[@MrFaulconbridge]

Did he really?

[@nikkopeterson8140]

i had prk surgery done 3 months ago i was legally blind my whole life until the surgery im 21 years old now and happy i did the surgey i have 20/20 vision and have excellent vision! buttt i still have the starburst effect at night and only at night so driving is not easy unless you know the roads,,, my doctor said it will go away after 6 months im hoping it does then i could say this surgery was a complete success but reading your comment of having the starburst effect for two years worries me

[@hara1k]

did it go away at the end? I still have them after 11 months , so I am curious..

[@muthu8304]

Recently have my smile surgery, my ophtomologist don't told these complications, its has been 2 months, my vision is 6/6 , all lines have haziness, last line i read only by guess, i have severe dry eyes, doctor told put tear gel every 2hrs at night, i have starbursts not improved till now, i don't recommend anyone this surgery

[@navneetyadav5275]

Same here bro

[@asingh8126]

​@@navneetyadav5275same bro

[@LASIKComplications]

It's been nearly ten years.

[@a220196]

I had PRK 2 months ago and I have starbursts exactly like those in the video. Is it possible that they leave on their own? My vision in the night is awful....

[@michaelforde4373]

I'm afraid if is I too had this procedure and it makes for hellish night vision particularly , had I known k would not have bothered .

[@chingkheimang4766]

Same here. any cure guys please share

[@frigidusi]

After prk too

[@edufy8711]

Has anyone ever got rid of halos, glare and starburst? From what i understood from the comments is that there are no cure for halos, glare and starburst. Is There any cure? I really would like to know and if there isn't any cure then would it be possible to get one within 10 years? Please let me know

[@theinformationbomber7102]

I just started to have starbursts and I want to know about it too

[@frostokonma]

@@theinformationbomber7102 any updates i got it too

[@LASIKComplications]

Eyeglasses do not correct my starbursts.

[@eramshaikh_21397]

Same here

[@LASIKComplications]

@23killerelf Don't believe them. I have researched LASIK extensively, including wavefront. Be leery. Keep your glasses.

[@Technicalmaan]

Don't tell lie. I have suffering this starbrust after lasik even I can't see the color from light now. Doctor destroyed my carrier

[@RynaxAlien]

Do they go away, can be treated?

[@LASIKComplications]

For many patients they are permanent.

[@hemanatht6193]

Helo, I'm facing starburst over a month, Is this serious or not, I'm feared about it.

[@frostokonma]

updates im f acing it too

[@vedrajput8060]

Update I m facing this problem

[@AbdulMalik-cy3ir]

I also facing from 5 years at night driving

[@lovepreetsingh1671]

@@AbdulMalik-cy3ir do you find any temporary solution for that?

[@user-zb2mr1gw2i]

こわいなあ

[@HAHAHAowaraiTV]

lasik gave us ray sick

[@Nika80108]

I am also experiencing the same thing. It’s been 1 week after my lasik surgery still I see starbusts at night 😢