I'm two weeks out after my surgery in my left eye so stopped using the antibiotic eye drop and only need to use the wetting drops several times a day for the next couple of weeks (or longer, if my eyes are uncomfortable). My vision in my right eye is great now for distance (I'd guesstimate 20/25), but blurrier for reading than my corrected vision before surgery. That said, I'm beginning to be able to read with it even though it's my distance-corrected eye.
I'm able to read now with my left eye too, which was corrected a little over two weeks ago and corrected to hopefully result in mini-monovision (0.5 diopters undercorrected). Reading with my left eye is a little blurry, but has improved dramatically over the past two weeks since the surgery.
Both my eyes have a "foreign body sensation" in opthalmology jargon, which is to say that I feel like I have something in my eyes. I've felt this pretty regularly (although not always) since the surgery. It feels like there's a little roughness on my cornea when I blink. I feel it only when blinking. My eyelids sometimes feel like they almost want to stick closed for an instant before opening again. My eyes also feel dry and tired in the morning when I wake up. It takes them awhile to feel ready for the day.
From what I've read about epi-LASIK, these post-surgery symptoms are typical and can take awhile to resolve themselves as the corneas heal.
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