Left eye:
10pt: 93.1% (previous best: 80%)
12pt: 90.6% (previous best: 100%)
Nice to see things improving, though I think the variability from test to test may exceed the size of these improvements.
Right eye:
10pt: 88% (previous best: 97%)
12pt: 100% (previous best: 100%)
Not bad, although that might be a bit of pullback in the 10pt category.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
3-month checkup
Everything is fine.
20/20 in left eye (which, to be honest, it was before. The last doctor gave me a gimme in saying it was 20/15)
20/15 in right.
20/15 combined.
The doctor pointed out to a student that tagged along for the checkup that my right eye looks like nothing has even been done to it.
Apparently my night-time halos are expected to go away over the next 3-9 months, which is nice.
20/20 in left eye (which, to be honest, it was before. The last doctor gave me a gimme in saying it was 20/15)
20/15 in right.
20/15 combined.
The doctor pointed out to a student that tagged along for the checkup that my right eye looks like nothing has even been done to it.
Apparently my night-time halos are expected to go away over the next 3-9 months, which is nice.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Haven't posted in forever
Pretty much nothing to update.
About once a week I have a dry-eye incident overnight where I rub my eyes, and the eyelid uncomfortably brushes against the surface of the eyeball.
My starbursts/halos appear to be slowly getting better, but they're not really that bad and never were incapacitating. At 6:30pm last night when I went running there weren't any, but there were when I drove my car at about 8pm. It's only when I'm in deep darkness that my pupil dilates enough for them to appear.
4 days until the end of the revised eyedrop schedule.
Vision seems to be about the same as my last check, maybe even a little worse. I'll have to macguyver it up some morning to confirm/deny that feeling.
About once a week I have a dry-eye incident overnight where I rub my eyes, and the eyelid uncomfortably brushes against the surface of the eyeball.
My starbursts/halos appear to be slowly getting better, but they're not really that bad and never were incapacitating. At 6:30pm last night when I went running there weren't any, but there were when I drove my car at about 8pm. It's only when I'm in deep darkness that my pupil dilates enough for them to appear.
4 days until the end of the revised eyedrop schedule.
Vision seems to be about the same as my last check, maybe even a little worse. I'll have to macguyver it up some morning to confirm/deny that feeling.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Week 7.5 side effect report
While driving to work this morning, I noticed that the starbursts and halos are nearly gone from around bright lights when it's dark out. I still wish I had devised a way to measure halos and starbursts pre-op so I could tell when I'm back to my old level of artifacting.
Sometime in the wee hours of the morning today, I woke up briefly and rubbed my eye, and it felt very uncomfortable. So it appears that my eyes aren't yet very good at self lubrication at night. I've had no problems during the day with eye dryness. That's the first time in a while I've done the "rub dry eye during the night" thing, but if I'm honest I have to say I specifically try not to do any eye-rubbing at night because I know the discomfort might be there.
I haven't removed my 'virtual glasses' in quite a while.
My eyedrop-plan adherence is dropping - I've forgotten at least two in the last week. Much to my surprise, it gets harder to remember to do them the fewer I have to do every day.
Sometime in the wee hours of the morning today, I woke up briefly and rubbed my eye, and it felt very uncomfortable. So it appears that my eyes aren't yet very good at self lubrication at night. I've had no problems during the day with eye dryness. That's the first time in a while I've done the "rub dry eye during the night" thing, but if I'm honest I have to say I specifically try not to do any eye-rubbing at night because I know the discomfort might be there.
I haven't removed my 'virtual glasses' in quite a while.
My eyedrop-plan adherence is dropping - I've forgotten at least two in the last week. Much to my surprise, it gets harder to remember to do them the fewer I have to do every day.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
7-week Macguyver - Still getting better :-)
I had thought through this week that, unbelievable as it may be, my eyesight is actually still getting better.
So I did a Macguyver test this morning to test that theory:
Left eye:
10pt: 80% (previous best: 58%. With glasses: not measured, I had no clue my vision would get good enough to care about 10pt letters)
12pt: 92% (previous best: 100%. With glasses: 67%)
So my 10pt acuity continues to improve with the left eye.
Right eye:
10pt: 97.1% (previous best: 92.5%)
12pt: 96.1% (previous best: 100%)
Hehe, I don't think I'm supposed to see the smaller letters better. I think I mistook a 12pt Y for a V.
So I did a Macguyver test this morning to test that theory:
Left eye:
10pt: 80% (previous best: 58%. With glasses: not measured, I had no clue my vision would get good enough to care about 10pt letters)
12pt: 92% (previous best: 100%. With glasses: 67%)
So my 10pt acuity continues to improve with the left eye.
Right eye:
10pt: 97.1% (previous best: 92.5%)
12pt: 96.1% (previous best: 100%)
Hehe, I don't think I'm supposed to see the smaller letters better. I think I mistook a 12pt Y for a V.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
5 weeks 5 days checkup
Eye pressures are stable since last week, so we're staying the course on steroid drops.
20/15 in the right eye.
A qualified 20/15 in the left eye (I got a letter wrong, confusing G with Q, but the optometrist said G's shouldn't even be on the test since the acuity required to distinguish between G and Q is greater than it should be).
20/15 in the right eye.
A qualified 20/15 in the left eye (I got a letter wrong, confusing G with Q, but the optometrist said G's shouldn't even be on the test since the acuity required to distinguish between G and Q is greater than it should be).
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
5 weeks and 4 days Macguyver
Left eye:
10pt: 36% (previous best: 58%. Never tested with glasses)
12pt: 83% (previous best: 100%. Glasses: 67%)
All others: assumed 100%
Not bad for an end-of-day effort. Despite the regression from my past result with the left eye, it's still far ahead of what I had with glasses. The left eye has plateaued a bit, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's related to the "smidgen of prescription left" that the optometrist talked about last week. If it's like -0.1, it makes sense that accuracy improvement will halt, no matter how much the still-healing epithelial/corneal tissue clears up.
Right eye:
10pt: 92.5% (previous best: not tested)
12pt: 100% (previous best: 100%)
My right eye is unstoppable, apparently. Shrinking letters barely do anything to its scores.
10pt: 36% (previous best: 58%. Never tested with glasses)
12pt: 83% (previous best: 100%. Glasses: 67%)
All others: assumed 100%
Not bad for an end-of-day effort. Despite the regression from my past result with the left eye, it's still far ahead of what I had with glasses. The left eye has plateaued a bit, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's related to the "smidgen of prescription left" that the optometrist talked about last week. If it's like -0.1, it makes sense that accuracy improvement will halt, no matter how much the still-healing epithelial/corneal tissue clears up.
Right eye:
10pt: 92.5% (previous best: not tested)
12pt: 100% (previous best: 100%)
My right eye is unstoppable, apparently. Shrinking letters barely do anything to its scores.
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