I wake up with blurry vision and sore eyes each morning.

[khymans]

I had PRK and then LASIK about 7 years ago. At first it was great but then as I got older my near vision got bad and then also my far vision. I have not been able to ware contacts so I'm back to glasses. The last year I have been waking up with very achy eyes and burry vision. My eyes feel extremely dry and it takes several hours for them to come into focus. I'm 53 years old and female. Do you think it's due to the surgery, or age or something else?

Thanks for any info.

[659gold]

You are not alone, though if your experience with your eye care provider is like mine was, you may think you are. I'm also 53 and had RK, done with a diamond tipped scalpel, back in the mid 80's. I have no regrets, as I had many years of really great vision, but in 2000 I realized that I could hardly read my plane tickets or see my watch well enough to set the time when I moved from one time zone to another. I went in to get my eyes checked and was also told that my far vision had digressed. I tried to tell the doctor that it fluctuated during the day, but he insisted that glasses are tools and I needed them and I began wearing bifocals. My sight has progressively worsened.

I finally stopped going to the eye care provider because I was convinced that the more he prescribed the worse I was getting and he seemed less than concerned about the fluctuations I had told him about. I recently went to another provider. I explained the problem to him. What a coincidence, he had had RK during the mid 80s by the same doctor I had. He had also experience what you and I are experiencing. He had laser surgery done, making one eye for near and the other for far. Unlike the other provider he encouraged me to come back for refractory testing at various times of the day, which I did. I explained that I do exercises which seem to help, after several visits he and I agreed that I would ditch my bifocals and I'd use only a reading prescription. I'll go back in a couple of months to see if my eyes have changed. I am having increased periods during which my far vision is excellent. I am also working towards bettering my near vision. Only time will tell if I succeed. Though I do believe that one can exercise their eyes back to health at least to some degree, I don't recommend the sites out there that say they'll have you back to 20/20 in month. They charge a lot of money for something that you can learn and research on your own. The most important thing you can do is find an eye care provider who will listen to you and not just tell you glasses are a tool, and to use them.