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After surgery all colors seem to have changed, is this normal?
A very, very few patients have reported a color shift toward the red spectrum after surgery.  This is not a color filter, where a particular color is not visible, but a shift in colors where all visible colors are changed to a slightly different frequency.

This phenomena is quite new and not very well understood or documented.  Theories abound, but it appears that the cornea after refractive surgery changes the frequency of the light passing through.  It is not clearly understood if this is a correction of a previously undiagnosed problem, or an actual transformation of color perception.

The color shift has not been reported to cause any kind of color blindness and has been reported by some as an visual enhancement.  A person working with colors, such as a designer or an artist, may find this change a bit disconcerting at first and may want to consider the small possibility of a color shift when evaluating refractive surgery.  By all reports, the change seems to be more of a nuisance than a problem.  Once a person becomes accustomed to the shift, it is all but unnoticeable

 

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