CXL Ghosting Recovery
Posted: Sun 25 Jan 2015 2:01 pm
Hello,
I am a new member here. I was diagnosed with Keratoconus in both eyes. Unfortunately my right eye had been suffering from the disease since a long time and my right eye vision was already terrible. I was also being ignorant because my left eye was perfect and I left my right eye unattended. As I am a software engineer, most of my time is spent in front of computer. Few days back, I started experiencing dry eyes with a little blurriness in my left eye for which I was really concerned. I went to the eye specialist and topographic examination showed keratoconus in both eyes. However my left eye only started to suffer from this disease. My eye doctor advised me CXL without taking some time to see if keratoconus is progressing in left eye. I did my little research on the procedure and read about how safe CXL is. I also took opinions from another eye doctor and he also advised me to go for CXL. Without knowing much about the recovery and healing time I agreed and undergone CXL in both eyes on 2nd January from a very famous eye surgeon in my town. It has been exactly 23 days now, my vision is blurrier than what it was before. I am not really observing my right eye because it was never very good. But my left eye was still very crisp prior to the CXL procedure. Although, the blurry vision and haziness is improving little day by day, I am really worried about the GHOSTING I have developed after the procedure. I went to my doc for follow up the next day of my surgery, at 1 week, 2nd week and 3rd week. According to my doc its all going good and smooth and I should be patient in seeing the positive results. I know that the healing might take upto 3 to 6 months but I am really concerned about the GHOSTING. I did alot of research about CXL recovery and healing but couldnt find any information or experiences in which people developed GHOSTING and was later resolved. However, I did find people sharing there experience of PRK surgery that they developed ghosting in first few months but finally got rid of it. I know I am being a little impatient but if any of you can help me by educating me a bit more and if this double vision is normal after CXL because this is really disturbing and frustating and I get dizzy all the time focusing on different images. This is probably the cause that Im getting very frequent headaches and this is affecting my daily life. My eyes are not dry during the daytime I guess but only when I sleep I get really dry eyes which affects my sleep. My doctor has advised me VIGAMOX, CORTISTEROIDS Tobradex and Systane Hydrating Eye Drops. I am advised to use them 4 times a day for complete 1 month of surgery. Any help by sharing information or experiences would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I am a new member here. I was diagnosed with Keratoconus in both eyes. Unfortunately my right eye had been suffering from the disease since a long time and my right eye vision was already terrible. I was also being ignorant because my left eye was perfect and I left my right eye unattended. As I am a software engineer, most of my time is spent in front of computer. Few days back, I started experiencing dry eyes with a little blurriness in my left eye for which I was really concerned. I went to the eye specialist and topographic examination showed keratoconus in both eyes. However my left eye only started to suffer from this disease. My eye doctor advised me CXL without taking some time to see if keratoconus is progressing in left eye. I did my little research on the procedure and read about how safe CXL is. I also took opinions from another eye doctor and he also advised me to go for CXL. Without knowing much about the recovery and healing time I agreed and undergone CXL in both eyes on 2nd January from a very famous eye surgeon in my town. It has been exactly 23 days now, my vision is blurrier than what it was before. I am not really observing my right eye because it was never very good. But my left eye was still very crisp prior to the CXL procedure. Although, the blurry vision and haziness is improving little day by day, I am really worried about the GHOSTING I have developed after the procedure. I went to my doc for follow up the next day of my surgery, at 1 week, 2nd week and 3rd week. According to my doc its all going good and smooth and I should be patient in seeing the positive results. I know that the healing might take upto 3 to 6 months but I am really concerned about the GHOSTING. I did alot of research about CXL recovery and healing but couldnt find any information or experiences in which people developed GHOSTING and was later resolved. However, I did find people sharing there experience of PRK surgery that they developed ghosting in first few months but finally got rid of it. I know I am being a little impatient but if any of you can help me by educating me a bit more and if this double vision is normal after CXL because this is really disturbing and frustating and I get dizzy all the time focusing on different images. This is probably the cause that Im getting very frequent headaches and this is affecting my daily life. My eyes are not dry during the daytime I guess but only when I sleep I get really dry eyes which affects my sleep. My doctor has advised me VIGAMOX, CORTISTEROIDS Tobradex and Systane Hydrating Eye Drops. I am advised to use them 4 times a day for complete 1 month of surgery. Any help by sharing information or experiences would be much appreciated.
Thanks!