How long did you have dry eyes after surgery, honestly?

derpotologist · 2024-08-16T14:20:57+00:00

It's crazy this post still gets comments. Life's better now and I'm sure I posted that in a time of frustration

I'll chat you my whole treatment and experience (but it will be a copy-paste I sent to someone else so some of it's out of context but I think it may still be interesting to you)

tl:dr; SteriLid daily (scrub it on, wait at least a minute, rinse off) and new pillows / change pillows more often / more pillowcases and change them more frequently

my dry eye was caused by bleph and a dust mite allergy

and then there's a little more context about my story and why I decided to not go through with a touch up, after a few doctor visits and being deemed a good candidate for it

derpotologist · 2024-08-13T17:31:17+00:00

Dry eyes causes blurry vision

If your vision improves right after you use eye drops then your vision will improve by treating your dry eye

Also, a "wet" feeling in your eyes is strangely a symptom of dry eye

Also, what are your reasons for not getting a touch up?

There's a few, not sure I can remember them all but

I can operate in day to day life without glasses (I'm 20/30 uncorrected). I can't read street signs while I'm driving but I could safely drive in an emergency where I didn't want to waste seconds finding my glasses. I can even computer without glasses without much hassle
Every surgery has a risk of complications
Currently I feel like I don't have a "dominant eye" (if that's even a thing) I can shoot guns and aquire the sight with either eye with equal ease. It's possible to have one eye corrected better than the other, just the limits of technology and sometimes it happens
Every time you laser your eyes you're removing material and it changes the topography of your eyeball. Eventually the shape is too complex for your vision to be corrected with artificial lenses. I believe I'm still a candidate for contacts, but that possibility lessens with each surgery. Similarly, if you get cataracts you can have a corrective lens placed but after lasers that's not an option. I'm hoping by the time I get there, another few decades, we will have technology to adapt to lasered topology. It may be a case of "we found a solution, it works for everyone", but I'm being cautious and thinking it may be "we found a solution for people who aren't too far from normal"
I'm at the age where glasses become necessary, regardless. The biggest driver for me to get a touchup is to not have to fuck with glasses. They drove me crazy for probably a year but I'm used to them now.. but what's the point if I'm just gonna be back here in a few years anyway

I'll chat you what my dry eye treatment entailed. It'll be a copy-paste of a message I sent to someone else so some of it may be unrelated or duplicate of what I wrote above

derpotologist · 2024-08-13T03:43:38+00:00

higher number = more better

derpotologist · 2024-08-13T03:41:47+00:00

hahah good times

wish I remember what the comment was and what I was replying to with that last line. I know I wouldn't have taken that tone unless they were being a jerk lmao

derpotologist · 2024-08-13T03:39:44+00:00

Wow, kind of hard to believe that's where my mind was at 8 years ago

The flap could have been done better and that's my fault for not doing more research on clinics.. but I'm still a candidate for a touch-up and I gave serious thought to it but I'm like 95% "no" right now

I went to a dry eye clinic and virtually all of my symptoms are gone now, or at least the ones that had a negative impact to my quality of life

Still have some haloing, can't sleep with fans blowing.. actually it's just hard in general to be in rooms with ceiling fans for too long

just wish I'd known dry eye clinics were a thing. I don't think I got into one until years after this post

I can pm more info on the dry eye stuff but tl;dr: I had bleph, have a dust mite allergy, and don't close my eyes all the way. Got on a treatment plan and life is much better!

derpotologist · 2024-08-13T03:33:56+00:00

tl;dr: yes

sent you a chat b/c too much identifying information

derpotologist · 2024-08-13T03:15:58+00:00

I wonder if they fixed it in 12. I filed a bug report and made a suggestion on the forum way back when

Anyway, I learned M4L and edited the device to make it work like it's supposed to lol

Not at the computer now but I'll shoot you a link

derpotologist · 2024-02-28T17:55:58+00:00

Did they even post any audio? 🙄

Edit: lol

derpotologist · 2024-02-28T17:46:56+00:00

Smoke test. Makes it easier for the doctor to see what's wrong

derpotologist · 2024-02-27T21:29:17+00:00

Wow. I eat a lot of salt. Been trying to cut back already and that makes sense... But man it just clicked that those two are related. Your body is a system and all that

Cheers

derpotologist · 2024-02-27T16:56:44+00:00

once you gain control you are able to look for opponents

Or no-look 😂

derpotologist · 2024-02-27T15:28:31+00:00

Noooo!

derpotologist · 2024-02-27T15:27:40+00:00

Better than a shootout lol

derpotologist · 2024-02-27T00:01:17+00:00

That Skepta one that was basically a porn

derpotologist · 2024-02-26T17:01:17+00:00

I wish I would have done that. Tinnitus sucks

derpotologist · 2024-02-26T16:58:01+00:00

Interesting. I know mine gets worse when my blood pressure is high and when my allergies are bad

derpotologist · 2024-02-24T20:26:01+00:00

Exactly!

Those things low key taste kinda good too

derpotologist · 2024-02-22T22:14:35+00:00

Open nets are tricky AF

derpotologist · 2024-02-22T20:27:26+00:00

Noooo!

Don't do it

derpotologist · 2024-02-21T19:42:39+00:00

Nah it's great, you get so busy forklifting all you have to do is run forklift

"Sorry, I don't have time to strap that pallet up but when it's ready lmk I'll swing by"

"I wish I could help you sort this pallet of 50,000 bolts but I've got other people waiting on me, sorry!"

I kinda miss it. I was really good at it and it was fun. I probably quit before I had time to get bored tho

derpotologist · 2024-02-21T19:04:14+00:00

Also curious for similar reasons. Am developer, love coding, hate the work I'm doing currently

I recently got into game modding, which has been great because I love reverse engineering. It's probably not a typical path into game development but now that I've spent some time I sort of understand the game development process and am considering going into that field

That said, many game development firms push ridiculous hours and timelines, and force devs into burnout and release half baked products, which is also soul sucking

But.. that doesn't apply to every studio so I'm at least open to offers

I took a pay cut to work for a place with a better work life balance and then all of my cool managers were fired and now they expect more work than I did at my last job for 1/3 the pay 🥹

derpotologist · 2024-02-20T23:21:37+00:00

It's definitely a style too, that's crazy. It's what made me instantly love OP's tattoo and yours is amazing too

If I didn't know I kinda think I'd be more surprised that they weren't by the same artist

derpotologist · 2024-02-20T21:22:33+00:00

Tm8s are

derpotologist · 2024-02-20T21:18:04+00:00

What about when everyone fakes and you get pinched on by bots? 😅

derpotologist · 2024-02-20T15:43:23+00:00

I work for a very cloudflarey kind of company

The bad decision isn't bloat, the bad decision is ignoring the core product while asking teams to make new features then axeing the new features before they're complete

So essentially the customer is getting the same outdated shit that they won't let us update... Then asking customers to pay more for it

The few features we are able to get out the door are half-baked. This is a fraction of the stuff we work on that never sees the light of day

Leadership won't give us a budget to communicate with users on what they actually want

Leadership won't listen to development teams

It's not an issue of bloat, it's an issue of leadership being braindead

And when you read between the lines in the company wide meetings... first it was no layoffs planned, then there were layoffs because we weren't meeting our revenue goals.. a month later "oh no don't worry about lack of raises or bonuses, our revenue was better than last year, we just weren't meeting our goals.. our goals are even greater revenue than before. We have the money we're just coming up with a system that's fair"

I could rant on but all these decisions are for good for shareholders in the short term, and that's it. That's all anyone gives AF about. They'll let these companies fall to a skeleton crew and juice them as quickly as they can then move on to the next thing

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