What Exactly Is The Procedure?
Before exploring the need for being sleep or awake, during the process of Lasik eye surgery, knowing the exact procedure of the surgery is important. The surgery of Lasik takes no more than 10 minutes. And no general anaesthesia is given for the surgery. Usually, the laser focused on the cornea to reshape it is just lesser than a minute, typically, per eye. Local anaesthesia is given to the patient with anaesthetic eye drops. It helps you not to feel painful, while the surgery is being conducted.
Is Anaesthesia Given?
General anaesthesia has its own benefits and risks, associated with any kind of surgery, including Lasik surgery and offer with no significant added benefits of curing, but increasing the cost of the surgery and hindrance in following up surgeon instruction during the lasik procedure.
However, a mild sedative is preferred by the surgeons, in certain cases, where you are anxious or fear during the surgical procedure. The mild sedative is opted to help you relax.
So, technically, it is important that you realize that taking anaesthesia is more harmful, compared to undergoing the surgery with no such sedative. Local anaesthesia helps you to feel no pain causing from the laser focussed on the cornea. So, getting mentally prepared that the undergoing the surgery with no general anaesthesia can reduce the overall recovery time and reduce the health risks, on an overall. When you are mentally prepared well and confident about the procedure, it helps to reduce nerves and feel comfortable.
What Lasik Surgery Patients To Say?
Most of the patients report that surgery is completed much before than the expected time and it is found to be very less stressful than it could be as anticipated.
I Still Have Fear
If you still fear about being awake during the surgery, it should be respected and considered, by the surgeon and proceed with increasing sedatives. However, consulting and discussing with the patients, who underwent the same procedure of surgery can be helpful, as they are the best people to share the experience. You can also learn that the post surgery risks are less for the surgery conducted with the least sedatives.