The suicide of a 26 -year -old Pennsylvania police officer on the later effects of the popular Lasik eye surgery was not an isolated incident, and others said that they left them agonizing and changing their lives, patients and doctors told The Post.
Lasik providers say the procedure is 95% to 99%, but a Lasik survivor said he had suicide ideas for two years after his “disastrous” surgery in 2000.
He also claimed to know at least 40 people for having taken their own lives because they could not have problems of pain and constant vision, developed after the procedure.
“I really didn’t want to stay -at times, but I decided that I would give me the word about how dangerous this surgery may be,” The Post Wednesday Paula Cook, 66, of Tampa, FLA.
“Lasik lobby and surgeons will tell you that only a percentage of patients have problems later. This is not true. There are multiple studies that indicate otherwise.
“The percentage of results with bad results is in the two digits, not a percentage. And they know it,” he said.
Since Lasik was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999, more than 10 million people in the United States have undergone laser vision correction, according to the Medical Journal Clinical Ophtalmology, which establishes between 700,000 and 800,000 people who register each year.
COF manages the Lasik Complication Support Group on Facebook, one of the numerous social media organizations that have emerged in response to Lasik procedures.
“If you understand Lasik and what it does in the eyes and the cornea, you realize that you cannot do it in a healthy eye and do not expect complications,” said COF.
The procedure-assisted by laser in situ keratomileusis-re-remodela the cornea of the eye.
“Not everyone has serious complications, but many more people suffer from what you know. I have floats, severe dry eyes, induced astigmatism and night vision problems,” said COF.
Ryan Kingererski, 26 – the police officer who died from suicide after taking time from Penn Hills Police Department in Allegheny County Penn. Last August to submit to Lasik – it had similar symptoms.
His bad parents, Tim and Stefanie Kingererski, told CBS News this week about hell that his son passed after the procedure.
Kingerskis said that Ryan began to suffer, dual vision, to see dark and float spots: tiny spots that appear as stripes or shapes similar to the roof through a person’s field of view.
Ryan’s parents told a story similar to that of Detroit’s television meteorologist, Jessica Starr, Dan Rose, who said he took his own life after fighting with intense and vision problems after laser eye surgery.
The 35 -year -old mother hung on December 12, 2018, only two months after submitting to Lasik to correct her vision.
“Before the procedure, Jessica was completely normal, very healthy,” Rose told WJBK in 2019. “There was no depression … no underlying problem.”
Rose said that his wife left behind a 30 -page and videos suicide note, which made it clear that the decision to end his life was due to elective surgery.
Morris Waxler, now 89, was an FDA consultant who directed the branch responsible for reviewing the data on LASIK between 1996 and 2000, which covers the period that was approved.
It is a decision that he said in the publication that he has been repenting and has spoken publicly about the dangers of Lasik since 2010.
“It did not matter what questions and concerns he had, because the surgeons were very powerful and they are still,” he said.
Waxler previously told CBS in 2019 that his own analysis of industry data showed complication rates between 10% and 30% and in 2011, he asked the FDA to broadcast a voluntary memory of Lasik.
“People come in with healthy eyes and all they need are the glasses. But when surgeons cut the cornea, they eliminate their nerves and leave the corneas in strange shapes and some patients will have intractable pain,” he added.
The FDA warns on its website, there are risks to submit to Lasik, such as losing vision, dazzling, halos and/or dual vision and other “weakening visual symptoms”.
However, the American Refraction Surgery Council says on its website: “Lasik is safe and is one of the most studied elective surgical procedures available today … The rate of complications that jeopardize the vision of Lasik’s eye surgery is well below a percentage.”
For Abraham Rutner, 43, Brooklyn’s electrician, there was hope after his failure Lasik surgery five years ago.
“It’s like you had a layer of oil on top of your eyes, it was so abrupt and terrible,” Rutner told The Post. “I couldn’t work. I couldn’t drive. I felt like I was still a young man and lost his life.”
He then felt that Edward Boshnick, 84, an Ocular Miami doctor, whose optometric practice is dedicated to restoring lost vision and comfort due to various conditions and eye surgeries, including Lasik, keratocon and corneal trauma.
Dr. Boshnick, whose website is called Eyefreedom, adapted Rutner with a thing called a scarral lens that adapts to the corneas damaged by Lasik. Paula COfer also said that he equipped with the lens, which has also helped him.
Boshnick said in the publication, “Everyone has different problems when it comes to Lasik and he called the” BS procedure “.
“It’s the biggest scam that has been put to the North -American public,” he said. “And it’s a business of billions of dollars.”
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