Denver Lasik

When you live in Denver, Lasik surgery may be questionable when it comes down to the effects of altitude on the recovery times of laser eye surgery.  If you are thinking about laser eye surgery and live in Colorado, high altitudes are something you are subject to on a daily basis.  With that said, how will the altitudes affect the recovery time of laser eye surgery?

To begin, think back to your freshmen year of high school or a chemistry class.  When you go to higher altitudes, it gets colder and the air gets thinner.  If it happens to be cold outside, it will not affect your Lasik eye surgery because you can still go inside to where it’s warm.  What about the thin air?

Having thinner air in higher altitudes will not affect the healing process of eye surgeries in any negative way, like a Denver Lasik eye surgery or other places set at higher altitudes.  Actually, the thin air will actually help the healing process.  An eye has to receive oxygen in order to stay moisturized.  If you are in thinner air, the eye will be able to breathe more easily, helping the cornea heal faster after a Denver Lasik eye surgery.

Often times, you may find your eyes drying out.  This may be because you are outside in colder air, or the air has no moisture in it.  In either case, your surgeon will give you eye drops to keep your eyes moisturized.

Although cold weather may not affect your eye too much, be careful in freezing and sub-zero temperatures that occur at higher altitudes in Denver.  Lasik eye surgery may be affected as your eye could freeze and cause damage to the healing process. Also, be careful when preforming any kind of strenuous activity, like skiing after Lasik.

In places of high altitude, like in Denver, Lasik eye surgery has positive perks to it because of the eye being able to breathe easier in thin air.  However, there still is a risk since the eye is still vulnerable to drying out and, on bitter cold days, your eye may freeze.

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Many people who are looking into or already got Lasik surgery wonder if they will ever need to wear those annoying reading glasses again?  The main goal of Lasik surgery is to get rid of those vision problems, so you can see clearly.  You would think, since Lasik surgery is the process of reshaping the cornea of the eye to improve vision, this should prevent a person from ever having to wear glasses again.  Unfortunately, you most likely will have to wear them at some point, years after the surgery.

Immediately after surgery, you will go through a phase for about the first 3 months where your vision may be blurry, change often, and cause you to maybe even see double.  After about 3 months, your vision will improve to being 20/20.  This means you will not need glasses, and shouldn’t for a while.

Something that may cause you to wear glasses sooner than you would like to is in the instance of you getting an eye infection or an eye disease, which may cause a change and possible loss to your vision. 

Also, as you age, your body, muscles, bones, and joints all age, too.  Well, your eyes age, too, and as they get older and older, they will naturally lose their strength and cause you to lose your vision no matter what you do about it.  Yes, you could probably look into getting surgery again, but you wouldn’t need to make that decision until years after your surgery.

If you are worried about wearing glasses 20-30 years from the day you have surgery, you should take that into consideration whether you want to have Lasik surgery done, or not.  Usually, this factor doesn’t weigh much in the decision, since Lasik eye surgery improves vision and living lifestyle dramatically for a very long period of time.

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In Colorado, especially in Denver, Lasik eye surgery is being preformed more than ever before.  With an increasing number of people getting the surgery done, the big question in Colorado is, “how long until I can ski after I have Lasik eye surgery?”

When you have Lasik eye surgery, you can’t go out and do physical activities for at least three weeks.  This includes basketball, running, biking, swimming, and skiing, too.  This is mostly because of the lack of vision and delicate pieces of the eye still healing.  After the three weeks, you should make sure you can see well and have little to no soreness or tenderness to the eye.  This will ensure you are ready to put your eye through a little bit of stress.

Although your eye will be able to handle some stress, damage from the wind and sun are always at risk when going out to ski in Denver.  Lasik eye surgery makes the eye sensitive, so the eye is not only going to be irritated with wind blowing on it, it may also get dried out, too.  Along with the wind, the sun beaming on your face, along with the sun beaming off the snow into your face, can all be caught by the eye, leading you to possibly become blind from sun rays!

To prevent most eye risks, make sure you wear eye goggles.  Although goggles will not prevent all risk, because you can still fall and damage the eye, most naturally cause damage will be prevented.  Speaking of falling, you should not take big risks with your Denver Lasik eye surgery on the slopes.  If anything, go out there for a light run on a small hill, or even on the bunny hill.  This will prevent any risk cause by possibly falling, and also most risk by those crazy snowboarders and skiers who fly at 90 mph down the hillside.

Now that you know how long to wait before skiing, what risks you will still be faced against, and how to prevent those risks in the best possible way, with goggles and taking runs on the bunny hill, you should be able to be back on the hill in only a short couple of weeks.

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The number one, most asked question concerning Lasik eye surgery is, “Is Lasik right for me?”  Of course the answer is independent based on many factors, different in each person, but some factors for who can and cannot have Lasik have risen over the years.  These factors are age, eye stability, health conditions, and even your physical activities, each playing a factor into whether you can have Lasik surgery, or not.

In order to have Lasik eye surgery, surgeons usually have patients be at least 20 years old to ensure eye stability.  Although 20 years old is usually the recommended age, people that are 18 and older are legally allowed to have the surgery done.

The only reason 20 or older is recommended is because of eye stability, which is the ability and tendency for an eye to change its prescription.  People who have eyes which change often are usually considered to have refractive instability, which means the person’s vision changes like young children’s do.  If your eyes have changed prescription within a year of your last eye exam, you are considered to have refractive instability.

Health conditions are serious and if diagnosed with a disease, you must notify it to your surgeon.  People with autoimmune diseases and diabetes are not allowed to have Lasik, as their eye might not be able to heal right with their health condition.  Any eye disease will cause either a delay or even a denial to having the surgery.  Glaucoma, Herpes Zoster (in the eye), and Keratoconus are all disease that have not been investigated enough in order to authorize any surgery with a patient having these diseases.

The last factor is your physical activities and lifestyle.  People with very intense, high contact sport activities and hobbies, like boxing, martial art fighting, and wrestling, are usually not recommended to have Lasik, as the punches to the head and black eyes will cause harm to the reformed cornea.

So, is Lasik eye surgery right for you?  If you read this article and still qualify under all those conditions, you are more than likely able to have Lasik eye surgery.

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