NY Lasik

I had PRK (a different type of Lasik) eye surgery in May 2015… It is now roughly 6 months later… I went in for a follow up check-​up with Dr. Leonard Bley who did my surgery last week, and I am ecstatic to report that I have ²⁰⁄₁₅ vision!!! How incredible is that? It’s like a miracle! I was one of those people who had been wearing contact lenses for 15 years, and was simply tired of it. I felt like a slave to the annoying routine of putting them in, and taking them out, and putting them in, and taking them out… For those of you who have been wearing contacts for 15 years, I am sure you can relate!
Anyway, my father who is now 62 years old, had his PRK procedure done almost 20 years ago with Dr. Bley! And my father’s vision, that was corrected 20 years ago is still perfect! So naturally, when it came time for me to do PRK, going to Dr. Bley was an obvious choice.
First you go for a free consultation where they do all sorts of tests on your eyes to make sure that your eye is a candidate for the procedure… In my case, and in my father’s case as well, we both did PRK because «our flap is too thin for Lasik.» Basically, if you have a thin flap, you do PRK, if your flap is thicker, you can do Lasik… However, fighter pilots all do PRK… So now I can go be a fighter pilot if I want to ;)
After finding out that I was a candidate for PRK (and not Lasik) I made an appointment for the procedure. The whole procedure probably takes 10 – 20 minutes… Probably even less. I had discomfort for 3 days after the procedure but by the 3^rd day was 90% back to normal. Every day after that was better and better. After 1 full week, I barely felt anything. My eyes totally healed… I just was very careful with washing my face. I didn’t use any soaps, and also I stopped wearing eye makeup for 3 months.
The best thing about getting PRK was going to the beach in the summer! What an amazing relief to be able to swim and not worry about losing a contact! The beach itself looked more incredible than I’d ever seen it in years… It’s like I now see the world in HD! It’s really a trip!
Once in a while, if my eyes do get dry, I just put some drops in… But apparently this «eye dryness» goes away over time.
It annoys me that Thomas M and Lana V left terrible reviews for such a good doctor… Thomas M, by the way, if you read the review, didn’t even get Lasik or PRK from Dr. Bley so that review shouldn’t even count! And Lana V did get Lasik and has PERFECT results, as she says in her review herself… She is just complaining about waiting in the waiting room…
Yes, I had to wait in the waiting room too… But hello… This is New York City… You have to wait at every doctors office… I’m not saying it’s okay, but what I am saying is, it’s sort of the norm, so let’s rate this doctor by his actual work and capabilities, and not how long you had to wait in the waiting room! Who cares if you have to wait a bit if you walk out with perfect ²⁰⁄₁₅ vision!
Anyway… I highly recommend Dr. Bley for his skills as a Lasik and PRK eye surgeon. If you have to wait a bit in the waiting room as a trade off to obtaining PERFECT VISION, I think it’s a fair trade… Bring a book! :)

I had monovision procedure done and couldn’t be happier/​more satisfied — for the first time in my life I do not need to wear glasses! As to previous reviewer having to wait for a long time — I had a very different experience there. As a matter of fact, I was very late and then very early to my post-​op. appointments and both times the dr saw me right away. Overall, a very positive experience

I had my operation done by Dr. Bley a while ago and 15 minutes changed my life forever. Many years later I still have my vision at 100%.

I made an appointment to have my eyes checked solely for the purpose of renewing my NY drivers license. My vision is excellent and all I needed was for the doctor to sign the form that I passed the Snellen test (the eye chart test we’re all familiar with — «read the top row» etc). The nurse gave me the test and I scored ²⁰⁄₂₀ on both eyes.
She then led me to another room and told me she was going to administer another test, «just 5 minutes for each eye», using some complicated looking machine. I asked her if this was necessary, and she told me the doctor wanted to check «something». I asked again if this was a requirement for renewing my driver’s license since I clearly had ²⁰⁄₂₀ vision and she became evasive, unable to tell me yes or no.
We went back to the lobby and Dr. Nerry Nayzov appeared. He asked me to follow him to another room, had me sit in front of another expensive looking machine and asked me to put my head on the chinrest. I said «I only need the Snellen test — it’s for my driver’s license.» and he replied «Just put your chin on the rest». Nice manners.
I told him again, I only need the required test for my driver’s license. I see I passed it with ²⁰⁄₂₀ for both eyes, so are these other tests required? He answered that «sometimes they want to know about the side vision» so I asked him again «but is it required right now, today? All I wanted was the eye chart test, which I already took.»
Without saying anything else, he took me to the lobby, filled out my form with his back turned to me, didn’t say another word and disappeared.
It is my opinion that both the nurse and Dr. Nayzov, by carefully parsing their words, presented these other tests to me as being necessary before I could renew my license. This in spite of me very explicitly and clearly explaining the purpose for my visit.
I was made very uncomfortable having to argue with both of them. God forbid my insurance company denied the claim — I would have been on the hook for hundreds of dollars of unnecessary bills.
I know my vision will go bad one day, but I also know that no one from this office will ever treat me for it.

Ok, I’m severely downgrading this place because I am pissed off at their post-​Lasik service. After the surgery you have to come in once in awhile to make sure everything is as it should be and that your vision is where it should be.
I’ve had a couple of these appointments because I was concerned about my dry eyes. Each time I’ve come in since my surgery I left more and more pissed off. Today was the final straw. I came in for a 1PM appointment and sat around for an hour and a half until my name was called. (I know this is nothing new in doctor’s offices but still gets me so freakin angry, like the rest of us don’t have jobs!)
After I finally got called up, they quickly checked my vision (still perfect) and had me sit and wait in another room for my doctor to come and speak to me. This was a moment of concern because last time my doctor, Dr. Bley, was not able to come see me and one of the other doctors that works there came in instead. I don’t normally mind this except that this other doctor was replacing a regular doctor going on maternity leave and this new doctor seemed really really new. Like I just graduated med school new. Not only did she not sound like she knew what she was talking about, (she could not remember the name of drops nor the appropriate dosage she wanted to prescribe) but she had one of those drawn out Staten Island or maybe Jersey girl accents. Ugh.
Anyway, today they said sit here fore a few minutes and Dr. Bley will come in and see you. Dr. Bley was too busy chatting it up with a friend of his in the waiting room to come in and see me and instead after another excruciatingly long wait, the idiot doctor was back. Not only did she have totally different ideas about how to treat my eyes this time versus last time (last time she told me to drink fish oil), she performed a mini procedure on me (punctual occlusion for dry eyes) without bothering to explain what she was about to do or why she was doing it. I asked for an explanation and she said it’ll help your dry eyes. Meanwhile she’s sticking something rather painfully into my tear ducts and tells me later after I ask more questions that it will take 3 – 4 months to dissolve. This is the kind of information I’d like to know before you do it! The reason I even figured out what she did to me was because I read the name on the box of the things she stuck in my eye and googled it later.
Basically really really bad service. I’m still very happy with the fact that I got Lasik and Dr. Bley is a great surgeon but the way the office is run really drags down the whole experience.