Tragic Confession Sparks Unseen LASIK Horror Stories From Others Who Dare to Speak Out
- A former police officer in PA ended his life after an unsuccessful LASIK procedure
- The surgery left his eyesight worse than it was before the surgery
- There have been additional cases of people ending their own lives after a botched LASIK surgery
- LASIK lobby releases statement in aftermath of media storm on Ryan’s story
In August of 2024, Ryan chose to have elective LASIK surgery. He was planning on taking a few days off work, but as the days and months dragged on, his eyesight was not getting any better.
Ryan’s parents told KDKA News, a CBS station from Pittsburgh, that their son was having very bad pain in his head. “He had terrible headaches and wasn’t able to focus, and the vision and blurriness and everything else just continued.”
For five months after getting LASIK, Ryan lived with constant pain until he took his life
Image credits: Getty Images/Unsplash (Not the actual photo)
After living with the pain for five months, he couldn’t take it anymore. In January, Ryan ended his life. He left a note for his parents saying, in part, that he “couldn’t take it anymore. LASIK took everything from me.”
Ryan’s parents said that after the procedure, he was full of regret. But before, he was “witty, charming, smart and a lot of fun to be around,” Stefanie Kingerski said.
They say he decided to go ahead with the elective procedure in part because his doctor told him it was 99.99% effective.
“He couldn’t take it anymore,” Ryan’s parents said, explaining that his sight was worse after the surgery
Image credits: CBS Pittsburgh
LASIK.com, a website with information on the procedure and eye doctors in the U.S. who perform the surgery, has addressed the recent media firestorm about the seeming connection between an unsuccessful surgery and someone taking their own life.
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