Hi I wanted to see if any other patients have had problems post-refractive surgery with floaters.
I did not have floaters before the sugery.
In April 2004, I had wavefront-lasik. In November of 2004, I went to my eye doctor for pilocarpine (1%) and alphagan P. The DAY I started using those drops, I had a flood of floaters ever since.
I have no retinal damage (from what the doctors tell me!). But I was wondering if anyone had any similar experiences.
I have tried floater pellets from some homopedic websites but they are just a scam. I was wondering if anyone has tried Chinense rambling powder or visited with the two doctors using the YAG laser to help with post lasik floaters.
Also, has anyone noticed that when they use pilocarpine or alphagan P that the appearance of their floaters dramatically increase for the next 7 days until the drugs work their way of their system? (Side note - I stopped using both of these terrible drugs.) I recently heard about pilogel, its like pilocarpine but in a once a day gel, and I was wondering if anyone has tried it or if its essentially the same as pilocarpine.
Finally, another issue I had with floaters is that before lasik, both my pupils were 8.5mm. They were the same size until I visited my lasik surguron in late November 2004, after using pilocarpine for a few weeks with, and I went to him with my problems. Turns out that my pupils were 8.15mm in the left eye, and 8.35 in the right. To me, this is what caused the same floaters. Because whenever I have mydrasis, the floaters are still there but their appreciance is drastically reduced. Pilocarpine is known to permenatly reduce pupil size, but I did not realize using it for a few weeks would do this and cause a permenant ncrease in the appearance of floaters!! Ah!!
Anyways, I am hoping to inspire some conversation on this topic by throwing out all of my floater experiences (ALL CAUSED BY LASIK AND ITS WONDERFUL SIDE EFFECTS!

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Thanks,
Anthony
Also, would it be benefical to list who my refractive surgeron was?