Anytime before 3 months from the procedure is good.

The most important being taking care when on the computers and using the computer glasses prescribed. If not taken this prescription from us, do so on the next visit and until then make sure that you are taking frequent breaks when using the PC.

This is defintiely for 3 months as this is the healing period. After that any artificial tears or lubricating eye drop is to be used as an on and off need as per your symptoms.

Please do so. However, most physical sports need you to use protective eye wear irrespective of having undergone LASIK, so do use that.

No. So long as you watch TV in a well lit room and a distance of about 10- 12 feet is what is ideal.

Gently, yes. However do refrain from rubbing eyes in general as even in absence of having done LASIK it is known to be a contributing factor to changing the shape of the cornea.

Your eyes may water or burn. You may feel a poking and pricking sensation for only a few hours after LASIK, between 2 hours to 6 hours. Keep your eyes closed for most of those hours or 'sleep it out'.

This is only for the first day and probably very bright sunlight for a week (which happens to all people). Hence you must use good UV-protective sunwear for a few days after LASIK which is any case a good habit for the eyes to prevent UV damage.

This happens for most only in the first week or two. Hence our advice is to get back to work, but work with frequent short few second breaks between computer uses.

This feeling of eye strain is sometimes described by patients to be the kind that people get when they have change of spectacle number and they have to get used to a new pair of glasses.

Yes, on an average most people recover after a week to 10 days. Some take longer, even upto about 6 weeks.

No touching the eyes for the first day, we give you a protective eye wear to help you through with that. No vigorous rubbing for a month, but you can gently clean and touch your eyes, rub the corners gently from the next day.

If you just touch and it does not scratch the cornea, its fine, but if your eyes are open and it scratches the cornea, it can disturb the healing process. We advise you to wear the protective wear in the first 6 hours during which time the flap heals. After that it takes a vigorous amount of rubbing to displace what we have done.

The logic is the same, as shampoo entering the eyes can lead to an urge to rub the eyes hard, hence avoided for 2-3 days. The face may be washed the next day itself.

We treat patients from over 92 countries and most from these places cannot revisit us.

This is the reason we have a high performance laser like to Concerto to get us accuracy in results.

If planned well, you need no more than 4-5 days in Mumbai.

The water may sting your eyes as it would even otherwise. It is however, not a good idea to purposefully wash your eyes or splash water in your eyes. It is questionable that tap water is free from bacteria. It also washes away your natural tears which protect your eyes.

After about 10 to 15 days, keeping in mind to tell them not to rub over the eyes..

You may start all these after about 10 -15 days with make up you were using earlier to be sure that it is not allergic to your eyes..

Yes, we have done LASIK on cases of nystagmus.

You must expect the same amount of vision as you are enjoying today. In adulthood, vision rarely improves unless it was not accurately corrected with glasses. What you may be having is also a bit of 'lazy eye' besides the nystagmus, wherein the eye inspite of correcting the powers does not read 20/20.

Vision is dependent on our optical pathway of the brain, which does not get trained in adulthood to 'read better' as it is stabilized by age 9 or 10 years..

However, all this is still general information, and specific to your case can be answered only with an examination.

Yes, swimming is avoidable for about a month, unless after 2 weeks or so you want to swim with swimming goggles on the surface of the pool. This is permissible after your post procedure eye examination with the doctor who will give you clearance for the same.

Gym may be started after 2-3 days where you can use treadmills, exercise equipment, but no sauna or steam till about 15-20 days or so. The eyes may be sensitive to some aerosols or aroma oils.

 Next day itself. However for a week like mentioned earlier, it may be in short spans and moderate work.

If after our detailed check up we find that you are a good candidate for the procedure, you will do very well. However, with just numbers being sent to us to decide via e mail is difficult as you will aprreciate that it will be general responses until the time that we have examined you ourselves. We do not take any chances and do not recommend the procedure to anyone whom we are doubtful of results..

Yes, swimming is avoidable for about a month, unless after 2 weeks or so you want to swim with swimming goggles on the surface of the pool. This is permissible after your post procedure eye examination with the doctor who will give you clearance for the same.

Gym may be started after 2-3 days where you can use treadmills, exercise equipment, but no sauna or steam till about 15-20 days or so. The eyes may be sensitive to some aerosols or aroma oils.

The above exist with the kind of technology used. In the night the pupil expands to let in more light, so if your treatment zone is smaller than the pupil dilation, this issue will exist. Some lasers do not have the capability to treat a large optical zone (which in the Concerto Laser that we use is the largest possible), hence we do not face this issue. You may feel some temporary glare when the layers of the eyes are healing and this will not extend to over 3 months. But the kind you read about on the net is permanent night vision issues which we do not face. For this we also check your pupil diameter in dim light condition

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Your eyes will continue to heal on a microscopic level, so it is only when you check and compare vision of both eyes, or consciously remind yourself "how well I can see today; or is the left eye or right eye better?" then you may still be perceptive to some slight non crisp vision, which is normal. This settles down in the course of the weeks to come, and is different for everyone, depending on their body healing capacity..
Rest your mind, we see this commonly only in the initial 3 to 4 months, which is why we prepare you stating that it takes 3 months for vision to get crisp and clear. Some heal earlier, some take all 12 weeks for healing.
This settles down in the 3 months post LASIK. All you need to do is follow the instructions of using the lubricating eye drops, Optive, maybe use it more than 4 times a day on hot days, or days when you do more visual work like being on the PC. Driving, or before movies. The atmosphere also being dry contributes to some of the symptoms. This is temporary.

This maybe due to the eye drops itself. Try not to squeeze your eyes hard, if you taste the eye drops, then this is what you are doing, which causes the mucosal lining of the head, sinuses to get slightly irritated. Take steam inhalation if accompanied with slight headache. This is passing and just needs some time for adjustment.

One needs to get the exact vision test checked not before 3 months. Till then the cornea gives wrong readings as most check with an 'autorefractometer' for the corneal index which has changed post LASIK.
We will recommend a vision check only when the 3 months are complete, preferably using the traditional method of streak retinoscopy.
Send us the report that comes out of this check up. We have not needed to correct more than 0.4% of our cases, so, just hang in there!