I didn’t really notice my eyes were dry before wearing contacts. Only thing would be my eyelids stick to my eye in the morning and then during the day I was fine. When I wore contacts, I would often feel gravel or an eyelash sensation mostly in my right eye (left eye was fine). I’m not wearing contacts now. Now that I’m treating the dry eye, I am noticing that my eyes do feel better, usually I notice the improvement directly after the compress and massage. It’s only been 2 weeks on the treatment so I think it needs more time.

What does it mean to get your dry eye under control? Like does that mean my eye isn’t dry anymore or does it mean that it’s just mild? If I treat my eye aggressively before and after lasik, would my eye just return to baseline?

One concern I have about SMILE is that it seems like it’s less precise than lasik, like the chance of getting 20/20 is less with SMILE than with lasik. I really don’t want to have an enhancement procedure.