Overcoming Your Eye Phobia Before Lasik Surgery

By Author: Miodrag Trajkovic
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If you belong to the bespectacled population you would know how frustrating it could get to be forever dependant on those two little framed pieces of glass. If you wear glasses for corrective vision, it is something you have to wear day in and day out, whether you are going out or staying home. Maybe you are just fed up of doing it everyday of your life. Maybe you keep losing those glasses amidst all your reading material and end up spending the better part of the day looking for them.

Or it could be that your glasses are scratched from being put down wrongly most of the time and now are so blurry you can hardly see through them. And if you wear contact lenses you could be tired of all the care involved in looking after them and just plain fed up of inserting them into your eyes everyday. Maybe it was high time you considered Lasik eye surgery. Lasik surgery is a corrective eye surgery and it helps you do away with glasses or contact lenses completely. It could give you the much longed for 20/20 vision that you have been looking for.

Though the chances of something going wrong during Lasik surgery is minimal, ...
... the very thought of becoming potentially blind is a very intimidating one. Talking to your doctor as well as reading everything you can get hold of on the subject is the best way of getting over these fears. Despite all this knowledge, eye surgery in any form, even one as safe as Lasik surgery is a very difficult reality to accept and you could get the necessary courage and strength from a clinical psychologist.

The best way to overcome your phobia of undergoing Lasik eye surgery is to actually watch a live demonstration while it is being performed on somebody else. You could watch the taped demonstration or better yet, if the other patient agrees, this is one surgery that doctors have no problem performing in the presence of an on-looker. If you are lucky enough to have got the opportunity to sit in at a surgery, you could do a follow up and ask the patient a host of questions relating to all aspects of the surgery - how they felt before, during and after the surgery, how they overcame their fears or any other question that bothers you most.

Don't forget that old but true cliché - Knowledge is Power. The more knowledge and information you are armed with the better you are able to deal with the impending surgery. Read as much as you can on Lasik eye surgery; ask your doctor or any other qualified person as many questions as you need to. All this will go a long way towards making you feel empowered and more in control. You will find all your fears slowly fading away.

If after reading everything on Lasik surgery and even watching one up close you find yourself still filled with dread at the thought of the impending surgery, then perhaps it is time to consider counseling. A good counselor is successful at helping a person get over just about any phobia and could have you ready to face the surgery in a record short time. If the phobia is really deep seated, stronger methods such as hypnosis and other visual aids could be used to help one get over these fears. Your doctor would be able to recommend a clinical psychologist that he has used before or has heard of.

Another really good option is meditation. Meditation calms your body and mind and helps you get rid of stress-related headaches and can even help you get rid of your phobias. Meditation is such a beneficial practice that phobia or not this daily ritual will help calm your mind and body in preparation of the impending surgery.

Though each of these methods is individually helpful towards overcoming your phobia of Lasik eye surgery, a combination of several or all of these methods may prove to be the best method of all. You are the one who knows yourself best of all. You are the best judge of how badly you want to have that surgery and what you are prepared to do to overcome your phobias and prepare for it.