Monday Masterclass | LASIK & Coffee

Good morning everyone, Dr. Leland Stillman and Amy Arp here today with another episode of Monday Masterclass. First things first, thank you all for your premium subscriptions. If you're watching a free preview of this as a free subscriber, upgrade. Lots of great content, lots of great information. The protocols here are really, really worth it, and, uh, you get a Monday Masterclass where Amy and I will delve into all of your questions at least in some measure every week. We can't get to like all of them in excruciating or exhausting detail, but can you really blame us? There's a lot of questions and a lot of material to cover. We're also looking for your feedback on this new Monday Masterclass format. Do you like it? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Do you have mixed feelings about it? We would like to know them. Please drop your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns in the comments, or if you're a premium subscriber, you can click reply and I will get the email. It's because we want this to be worth it to you. We want you to love it. We want you to enjoy it so we can keep doing it. All right, on that note, Amy, what are we covering today?

Okay, today we're gonna continue the, uh, conversation about our eyes. So someone had responded from last week and asked a question about LASIK eye surgery or similar surgeries of the sort.

And last week somebody asked us about contact lenses, so we went on a little rabbit hole excursion into the contact lens world.

And so now we're going to go dive in a little bit onto LASIK surgery or similar surgeries. And then I also, if we have time, we'll dive a little bit into coffee. Someone was also asking about should I drink coffee? Great question. So we'll see if we can get there today. So let me present. Okay, can you see it? Perfect. Okay, so a couple things first about LASIK. So if you've had LASIK surgery or a similar surgery, corrective eye surgery, you, you know a little bit about this, but I'm just going to go over it very briefly for anyone that is not familiar with it. So if you're getting LASIK eye surgery, here's a little kind of a diagram here that explains kind of just very briefly what they're doing in the surgery. So they're actually cutting a little bit of the cornea, flapping it back, and then they come in and then they're going to reshape it or shave part of it off or whatever is needed for your specific eyesight they'll do. And then they will just let the flap back down and let it heal naturally. And so they might give you a contact lens or something to help in that healing process. And so this is what is the kind of traditional LASIK eye surgery. And so someone was actually asking about PRK surgery, which is very similar, but it's called photoreactive keratectomy. And so it's similar to LASIK except for you do not do the flap. So you actually take a whole section off of the cornea to access the tissue underneath, and then they'll put it back on. So you don't have this flap there, but very similar process in what it's doing. And so both of them are very common even today. It just depends, I think, on the certain circumstance or your specific surgeon or how they want to do it. And so they do have pros and cons of each. Um, you know, different— both of them may have different, uh, lengths of time to recover as well as complications, etc. So what I was just trying to do is the first couple things I wanted to see here was I was thinking, is one actually better than the other? And so just, I was just trying to compare them to see, is one significantly better than the other? And in short, really