Lasik Enhancement

[MonoVision]

Can Lasik surgery enhancement make very small improvement in eyesight.  My doctor recommends getting one of my eyes enhanced after Lasik.  One eye (non dominant one)is 20/25 and I am OK with that but do wish to see better at a distance overall.  The other dominant eye is 20/30 at best and does not see at distance well at all but does see up close pretty good.

Can enhancement on the dominant eye fine tune things enough for it to get to 20/20 even though it is already somewhat close at 20/30.

I am considering just leaving things alone but after two months just still can't quite get my brain to understand the monovision I have now.  I am beginning to lean to getting goot distance vision in both eyes and just getting some reading glasses for up close vision.

How small of fine tuning can enhancement make?  How long does it take to really get used to monovision?  I know you can't make diagnosis but any info to help me make a decision would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, JDT

[Angienyc]

I think I am the victim of the LASEK enhancement !

You must read my forum on 10 Jul 2008 (LASEK resulting  in Convergence Insufficiency & Fusion Problems).

[Michael J Kutryb, MD]

The decision is entirely up to you.  Small corrections like yours are the reason for most enhancements.  It would be good to have at least one eye very crisp for distance.  If your doctor recommends it, then you have done well so far, you should feel fairly comfortable with him to do a small enhancement.  There are no guarantees though so discuss it with your surgeon and come up with an educated decision.

MJK MD