I'm supposed to be high

[herohog]

My hydrocodone 10/325 says: "May cause drowsiness. Alcohol may intensify this effect. Use care when operating a car or dangerous equipment. Taking more of this medicine than recommended may cause serious breathing problems."

Mixing alcohol and Hydrocodone can cause you to passout and slow/stop your breathing enough to cause brain damage and or death.

 

[Rahllin]

Ahh, keep us updated on how your eyes are doing, and once you can see straight, I will probably have a few questions about the place and the procedure. Your posts in the LASIK thread really peaked my interest. I am looking into a few places, and that place is on the top of my list.

 

[my-rifle]

Holy lasik Batman! When I had mine, the doc said he was going to give me valium, and I told him to give me the blue ones, not the yellow ones. Year crossing the border at Nuevo Laredo taught me that. BIG DIFFERENCE.

The blue ones had me cracking jokes with the surgeons as my cornea flopped open. Yellow ones would have had me freaking out.

Cat, It's all going to be OK.

 

[spanky]

Just don't CC into a costco.

 

[Cat]

I had one and half blue ones. 15mg. Not a damned thing. Enough to fail a field sobriety test with flying colors. But it did nothing for my anxiety. But I'm going to have to stoned stupid to enter my land of don't give a damn.

Any website detailing the intralace system is on the money. It's a two step process. The most difficult part for me was the pressure as they were trying to achieve a seal to cut the cornea. The machine presses down on your eye and as you know, women are taught to dig their fingers into attackers eyes on purpose for a reason. It hurts! But to be honest the first eye hurt worse. I relaxed a bit more on the second eye and the pressure wasn't nearly as bad or scary so the "pain" is probably psychological. The device holding my eyes open was a little disconcerting. The actual part where everybody stepped away from me and left me alone while the lasers worked was the easiest part.

The procedure took twenty minutes or so.


Your eyes are numb but nothing else is. You'll feel the tape, the speculum across your eyelids, the pressure around the whole eye socket. You just won't feel anything on your actual eyeball. I wish they made that clear beforehand. It's very disconcerting to feel little poking at e corner of your eye while they are prepping when you were under the impression you won't feel anything. You know it was more of an "oh no. If I feel it there, does that mean I'm not numb enough? Will the laser sting now?"


Just got back from the post op check up. With the corneal swelling and slightly distorted vision I'm seeing 20/20 in my right, and 20/25 in my left. I had an astigmatism in my left. But my vision is improving by the hour A few broken blood vessels this morning. A mild headache.

 

[my-rifle]

When I had mine done back in 2005, the doc asked me what I wanted. I asked for two blue ones. They seemed to work OK. The cocaine (I think) in the eyes wiped out all sensation, but the part where my vision suddenly went blurry (when they cut off the cornea) had me joking that I used to pay a lot less in Mexico to get high like this. Everybody put down their tools and stepped away from the table giggling.

The procedure worked OK for me, but now, five years later I have to wear glasses again. My right eye - my shooting eye - went out of focus after about three years. I hope you have better luck than I did.

 

[senseiturtle]

Probably was cocaine, my-rifle. We have a 4% solution (and I believe a 10% as well), but I'm not privvy to it

I'm thinking of having it done, once I can secure the cash and a few days off. Perhaps 2nd year residency? Let us know how it goes along, Kat. I wouldn't mind simple reading glasses down the line, as long as I don't have to deal with contacts for a few years.

 

[Cat]

At the moment, I recommend it. I've noticed some halo-ing tonight but they said that was going to happen. But the wavescan is designed primarily to combat the night blindness and light distortions from earlier surgeries. It's been about 27 hours since I walked out of the clinic.

If you have an astigmatism, you know sometimes how the contact can slide around and your vision is a little "off"? That's what I'm seeing. It clears up immediately if I slow down and focus on the text. I'm thinking it may be some eye strain there? Or muscle fatigue because as soon as I place eye drops in, my vision goes to a little better than the 20/20 I had earlier this morning. By this evening I doubt I'm even 20/40 at times.

I asked specifically if I needed any pain medication and I was told no. I did relay this to the doc this morning and was told it was the lid restraints they used but my sinuses have been aching ever since I left. Last night enough that I swore if I knew beforehand, I'd never do it again. I came home, took tylenol and crashed for an hour. I took two naps today, one midmorning and one short one midafternoon and that seems to help with the eye strain as well.

I don't think I'd recommend bouncing out of bed and going grocery shopping though. I wore sunglasses through Wal-Mart. But I've been hurting ever since I got home at 3. Napped for a half hour or so. So I definitely wouldn't recommend going to work the next day. This is a perfect Thursday afternoon surgery because you'll go in Friday morning to do a post-op check up and can rest all weekend. Day and half off max. Unless it's like Dr. Reish and he only does the surgeries one day a month.

I'll either have had to go to bifocals or reading glasses later on. I'm okay with having several pair of reading glasses stashed through the house. It was going to happen anyway.

 

[Cat]

And I'm not a 'nip head. We run a catnip free establishment around here. Even my four legged cats turn their nose up at the stuff.