Anyone had laser vision correction?

I know my good friend Lisa10 has had it done. Any other orgers want to share their experience?

Thanks.

I explored it and decided it wasn't for me. While I'm near-sighted, I have extremely good close vision. In other words, I can take my glasses off and work without them. With all the sewing I do, that's invaluable.

I was told by my eye doctor that if I had Lasik done, I would lose that excellent close vision - and that even with reading glasses, it would never be as good. So I decided not to do it.

On the other hand, I have friends who do lots of sports (and not so much close-up stuff) who are extremely happy with their Lasik results (because they don't have to wear glasses to ski or run or golf, anymore). So it's definitely a lifestyle thing.

I got it all the way back in 1999, and enjoy not having to put in contacts or reach for glasses to see past my hand (which is how bad it was before). Now my vision is perfect.

BUT...

It does ruin the superhuman close-up vision I had before. And since I had a done a long time ago there is more glare from tiny lights or headlights in a dark situation. These days, they have better techniques to rrduce that.

i've heard both good and bad things about it. the freedom from wearing contacts/glasses make it an attractive option but some folks need to use eyedrops forever after lasik surgery. i decided against it for me

My friend is an eye doctor. He said he would not get it done, simply because there is a risk, and the risk it too big. Things do go wrong. Also, I know at least one person whose gotten it done and now needs to wear glasses anyway because her eyes took a turn for the worse. They would have to not change at all for the Lasik to keep.

So I will not get it done.

My dad recently had cataract surgery, and he ended up with near perfect vision as a result for the first time since he was a young kid. And cataract surgery is more necessary, so that is maybe something for us to look forward to. Kill two birds with one stone and enjoy decent vision at the end of life.

Thanks guys.

I have really dry eyes and my contacts combined with allergies make me miserable.

I guess I have a lot to think about.

I hate wanting to scratch my eyes out everyday using contacts.

They gave me the option of just getting one eye done to correct my distance sight. They gave me a trial contact to simulate how it would be after the surgery. My eye without the contact has good up close vision but was so blurry it was giving me a headache with my eyes trying to focus one two different things.

Oh I don't know.

NDRU said:

My friend is an eye doctor. He said he would not get it done, simply because there is a risk, and the risk it too big. Things do go wrong. Also, I know at least one person whose gotten it done and now needs to wear glasses anyway because her eyes took a turn for the worse. They would have to not change at all for the Lasik to keep.

So I will not get it done.

My dad recently had cataract surgery, and he ended up with near perfect vision as a result for the first time since he was a young kid. And cataract surgery is more necessary, so that is maybe something for us to look forward to. Kill two birds with one stone and enjoy decent vision at the end of life.

XxAxX said:

NDRU said:

My friend is an eye doctor. He said he would not get it done, simply because there is a risk, and the risk it too big. Things do go wrong. Also, I know at least one person whose gotten it done and now needs to wear glasses anyway because her eyes took a turn for the worse. They would have to not change at all for the Lasik to keep.

So I will not get it done.

My dad recently had cataract surgery, and he ended up with near perfect vision as a result for the first time since he was a young kid. And cataract surgery is more necessary, so that is maybe something for us to look forward to. Kill two birds with one stone and enjoy decent vision at the end of life.

can't swing a dead cat around here without offending someone...

NDRU said:

XxAxX said:

can't swing a dead cat around here without offending someone...

omg

NDRU said:

My dad recently had cataract surgery, and he ended up with near perfect vision as a result for the first time since he was a young kid. And cataract surgery is more necessary, so that is maybe something for us to look forward to. Kill two birds with one stone and enjoy decent vision at the end of life.

My mother (63) recently had a collapsed retna. Just called me out of the blue and said, "half of the vision in my right eye has gone dark". During the exams for that they found she had cataracts in both eyes, the one in the right eye worse than the left.

She had the collapsed retna repaired (which is hardcore, I tell ya!) and didn't notice much change other than the "darkness" going away.

Had the right eye cataract surgery and couldn't use her old glasses anymore. Had the left eye cataract surgery and could see things she hadn't seen in twenty years.

After both eyes had fully healed and she got her new glasses it was the same for her as it was for your dad. She said it was like she was young again (she had glasses from a very young age, though). And for the first time in her life she doesn't use her glasses to read a book, or when she's at a computer.

So I am totally with you! Keep your needles and lasers and shit outta my eyes until it's medically necessary.

Yes!!!!

Before I had laser eye surgery, my girlfriend looked like this to me:

I mean, all I could tell was that she had dark brown hair. It was really hard to see anything but blurry shapes.

After I had lasic, I could see every detail:

Val, think really long and hard about this. Do you really want to know what Phil looks like?

imago said:

Yes!!!!

Before I had laser eye surgery, my girlfriend looked like this to me:

I mean, all I could tell was that she had dark brown hair. It was really hard to see anything but blurry shapes.

After I had lasic, I could see every detail:

Val, think really long and hard about this. Do you really want to know what Phil looks like?

that's just wrong

Shanti0608 said:

Anyone had laser vision correction?

I know my good friend Lisa10 has had it done. Any other orgers want to share their experience?

Thanks.

The bad: expensive (more than 2000 bucks), painful and creepy (you are forced to watch the operation)

The good: it changes your life, now I can do things I wasn't able to do with contact lenses.

imago said:

Yes!!!!

Before I had laser eye surgery, my girlfriend looked like this to me:

I mean, all I could tell was that she had dark brown hair. It was really hard to see anything but blurry shapes.

After I had lasic, I could see every detail:

Val, think really long and hard about this. Do you really want to know what Phil looks like?

I haven't had my sight tested since just after I had mine done - and that's coming up to 3 years ago. I'm pretty sure I don't have 20/20 vision, but it's definitely good enough. Before I had my surgery, I wore glasses since I was 12 and then wore contacts since age 16 - when I was at the point of needing glasses constantly. My prescription was -2.50 in my left eye and -2.75 in my right and I had astigmatisms in both eyes.

The procedure IS NOT PAINFUL! Don't listen to anyone that says otherwise. They numb your eyes with drops. You will not feel a thing. Yes, of course you will see it all happen - it's on your eyeballs!!!

During the procedure you will hear a little popping and smell a bit of burning.

I apparently have thin corneas so had to have the procedure which takes longer to recover from (can't remember which it's called, but it's the one where they replace a flap of eyeball skin over your cornea, so it has to heal). When the anaesth annaest stuff that numbs your eyes wears off, it did hurt. Like hell! But I took the sleeping pills they gave me and knocked myself out for 24 hours. Then it was absolutely fine.

It did cost me a shitload of money to get it done, but I don't have to deal with contacts everyday. I also used to get eye infections now and again, I can wake up and see the time on the alarm clock, I can open my eyes under water when i'm swimming (which I was stupidly excited about), people can't accuse me of wearing coloured contact lenses anymore (honestly!) and my eyeballs don't go all weird when i'm in the steamroom.

The one, tiny, teeny-weeny problem I have occasionally is when i'm super-dehydrated, the first thing that dries out is my eyes. That only happens if i've consumed a ton of alcohol... i wake in the night and my eyelids are stuck to my eyeballs.

Apart from that, it's great! Best decision I ever made. Go for it!

If I hadn't known about the smell it would have freaked me out a bit. I got it done eighteen months ago, it took less than 5 minutes and in a couple of hours I was able to text my parents to tell them it had gone ok. I had no disconfort whatsoever in the following days and, other than the embarrassment wearing my sunglasses at work for a couple of days (I'm a teacher) it was all fine.

My friend had it done about 6 years ago and she now needs glasses sometimes, but so far I have no complaints at all.

Lisa10 said:

During the procedure you will hear a little popping and smell a bit of burning.

wow, I can't believe I'm the only one who felt pain during the procedure and specially during the couple of days after the surgery; I was rabid, like a mad dog, my family eventually said "piss off " cuz I was that annoying...

I have and it's the best thing I've ever done for myself.

I had one eye undercorrected just a tad, and I could see up close and read everything just fine. My doctor told me it wouldn't forever put off needing bifocals, but I'm 53 and I still don't need them to read.

I do, however, need them to see really small stuff up close but I don't ever need to see small things up close, so that doesn't matter to me. And without lasik, I'd have been in this position 13 years ago.

There are no downsides for me.

[Edited 7/11/12 6:07am]

Thanks everybody. I go back tomorrow so they can dialate my eyes, see how my eyes are out of contacts. (Contacts are drying my eyes out and possibly thinning my cornea).

They will assess everything tomorrow and if everything looks ok, I need to stay out of my contacts, only wear glasses (hard to do in this FL sunshine) then have surgery next Thurs.

It is a lot of money but contacts and glasses arent cheap either.

Dan, you crack me up. Thank you

Do it.

I want it done.

Cerebus said:

NDRU said:

My dad recently had cataract surgery, and he ended up with near perfect vision as a result for the first time since he was a young kid. And cataract surgery is more necessary, so that is maybe something for us to look forward to. Kill two birds with one stone and enjoy decent vision at the end of life.

My mother (63) recently had a collapsed retna. Just called me out of the blue and said, "half of the vision in my right eye has gone dark". During the exams for that they found she had cataracts in both eyes, the one in the right eye worse than the left.

She had the collapsed retna repaired (which is hardcore, I tell ya!) and didn't notice much change other than the "darkness" going away.

Had the right eye cataract surgery and couldn't use her old glasses anymore. Had the left eye cataract surgery and could see things she hadn't seen in twenty years.

After both eyes had fully healed and she got her new glasses it was the same for her as it was for your dad. She said it was like she was young again (she had glasses from a very young age, though). And for the first time in her life she doesn't use her glasses to read a book, or when she's at a computer.

So I am totally with you! Keep your needles and lasers and shit outta my eyes until it's medically necessary.

shooting lasers into my eyes just doesn't make a lot of sense. It's the same as if I die in a plane crash. I will think "what the fuck did you expect, getting on this thing and blasting 35,000 into the air?"

NDRU said:

Cerebus said:

My mother (63) recently had a collapsed retna. Just called me out of the blue and said, "half of the vision in my right eye has gone dark". During the exams for that they found she had cataracts in both eyes, the one in the right eye worse than the left.

She had the collapsed retna repaired (which is hardcore, I tell ya!) and didn't notice much change other than the "darkness" going away.

Had the right eye cataract surgery and couldn't use her old glasses anymore. Had the left eye cataract surgery and could see things she hadn't seen in twenty years.

After both eyes had fully healed and she got her new glasses it was the same for her as it was for your dad. She said it was like she was young again (she had glasses from a very young age, though). And for the first time in her life she doesn't use her glasses to read a book, or when she's at a computer.

So I am totally with you! Keep your needles and lasers and shit outta my eyes until it's medically necessary.

shooting lasers into my eyes just doesn't make a lot of sense. It's the same as if I die in a plane crash. I will think "what the fuck did you expect, getting on this thing and blasting 35,000 into the air?"

You are not helping my nerves. I have survived childbirth so why not lasers?

Shanti0608 said:

NDRU said:

shooting lasers into my eyes just doesn't make a lot of sense. It's the same as if I die in a plane crash. I will think "what the fuck did you expect, getting on this thing and blasting 35,000 into the air?"

You are not helping my nerves. [b[I have survived childbirth so why not lasers?[/b[

Men

Seriously..think it thru Val.

I mean, you look great with glasses so why take the risk?

Shanti0608 said:

NDRU said:

shooting lasers into my eyes just doesn't make a lot of sense. It's the same as if I die in a plane crash. I will think "what the fuck did you expect, getting on this thing and blasting 35,000 into the air?"

You are not helping my nerves. I have survived childbirth so why not lasers?

oh, you'll survive...

I'm sure it's very safe!

NDRU said:

shooting lasers into my eyes just doesn't make a lot of sense. It's the same as if I die in a plane crash. I will think "what the fuck did you expect, getting on this thing and blasting 35,000 into the air?"

You don't ever fly? Actually you might deal with a lot more dangerous things like driving a car.

ufoclub said:

NDRU said:

shooting lasers into my eyes just doesn't make a lot of sense. It's the same as if I die in a plane crash. I will think "what the fuck did you expect, getting on this thing and blasting 35,000 into the air?"

You don't ever fly? Actually you might deal with a lot more dangerous things like driving a car.

I fly, but every time I do, I go over that dying scenario.

I'm very calm in my scenario, but clearly angry with myself.

I'm thinking about getting this done. Maybe sometime next year. My vision ain't bad, but it's not what it used to be.

Shanti0608 said:

Anyone had laser vision correction?

I know my good friend Lisa10 has had it done. Any other orgers want to share their experience?

Thanks.

I had mine done about 7 yrs ago and it was the best thing I have ever done. My vision is better than ever and I have had no issues what so ever. I did have to have two surgeries because my eyes were that bad, but now they are awesome!

MoniGram said:

Shanti0608 said:

Anyone had laser vision correction?

I know my good friend Lisa10 has had it done. Any other orgers want to share their experience?

Thanks.

I had mine done about 7 yrs ago and it was the best thing I have ever done. My vision is better than ever and I have had no issues what so ever. I did have to have two surgeries because my eyes were that bad, but now they are awesome!

Cool, good to know. I just had another consultation. My eyes are really dry due to allergies and being on Accutane many years ago. I will have to use drops for about 4 months and it may take a little longer to heal because they are so dry. I am having my surgery next Thursday at 11 am. Eeekkk! It is all scheduled now and I made the down payment, so I now have a week to think about it.

eat your vegetables and fruits! Take a multivitamin... and sleep more. Heal up faster.