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Mar. 3rd, 2008 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarOkay, just got a callback from one of the administrators at the eye doctor, from how it sounds, she's going to take the complaint to the doctor in question and the clinical director immediately. This is good. She also said that she'd put a note in my file about allergic reactions to fluoricine in case I did ever come back to them.
She said that it was likely not the actual fluorescent component that caused the allergic reaction- apparently that usually causes a reaction that requires eye washing, and still lasts for quite a while, it doesn't go away in a short time like my reaction did, so it was likely something else in the drops that I'm allergic to, so I should keep a watch for similar reactions to other drops in the future. She also said that the allergic reaction was a bit more severe, probably because they use a higher concentration for LASIK exams than for your garden-variety doctor visit.
She also couldn't figure out why on earth he'd numbed my eyes to dilate them. They did the air puff test, not the eyeball-pokey test for glaucoma. (At LASIK plus, they numbed and dilated my eyes, but they actually did an eye-poke test. Should I ever need to have my eyes poked again, I think I will just request that it be done without numbing if at all possible. Something flat and blunt tapping at my eyeball doesn't really bother me that much, especially compared to the alternative.)
She said that it was likely not the actual fluorescent component that caused the allergic reaction- apparently that usually causes a reaction that requires eye washing, and still lasts for quite a while, it doesn't go away in a short time like my reaction did, so it was likely something else in the drops that I'm allergic to, so I should keep a watch for similar reactions to other drops in the future. She also said that the allergic reaction was a bit more severe, probably because they use a higher concentration for LASIK exams than for your garden-variety doctor visit.
She also couldn't figure out why on earth he'd numbed my eyes to dilate them. They did the air puff test, not the eyeball-pokey test for glaucoma. (At LASIK plus, they numbed and dilated my eyes, but they actually did an eye-poke test. Should I ever need to have my eyes poked again, I think I will just request that it be done without numbing if at all possible. Something flat and blunt tapping at my eyeball doesn't really bother me that much, especially compared to the alternative.)
