Anyone have any opinions on this surgery? I read about it on the web, some good stories, some very bad stories with complications etc etc. Since you guys are so well informed on a variety of issues I thought I’d ask for your comments and advice? To those who don’t know what Lasik surgery is, it is a way to correct nearsightedness/farsightedness by creating a flap in the cornea then using a laser to vaporize cornea tissue thus reshaping the cornea, then putting the flap back over the eye and allowing the patient to heal. Statistics say that the chance of long term complications is 1%…
Do it. For one day of stinging and sleeping in funny goggles it is worth waking up and being able to read the clock without reaching for your glasses, or traveling without vials of contact lens chemicals. I’m 20/20 now with no problems, my boyfriend likewise, and he was legally blind before the surgery. Don’t delay; we’ll probably all need reading glasses in our 40s.
Mother-in-law had it done about a year ago. Now she only needs to wear glasses when reading. No complications.
My buddy just got it done last week and has 20/15 now. He’s preaching the surgery like the gospel. I’m considering it, but I’m hesitant. I hate having to put on my contacts every morning or wearing my glasses. But, I also dont like taking risks with my eyes. Vision with contacts or glasses is better than… I’ve heard the good recommendations, does anyone have any surgeries that went wrong? They should be first hand stories, not I heard of this guy…
I say “do it” also. Had it done three years ago with about 20/200 vision (could see from 20 feet what most good-visioned people can see from 200 feet). Woke up the next day, went in for a follow up and came up with 20/15 vision. There’s a standard over-correction usually that fades with time, but I’m still 20/20.
I was thinking of doing this too,but I box and I don’t know if blows to the head will mess it up. It would be nice to waterski and stuff like that and not have to worry about those stupid contacts. I waiting until I get 25 though. This is the age they recommend, I think.
I had it a couple of years ago. I had worn glasses and contacts since I was a kid. I now have 20/15 vison in both eyes and I’ve never been more pleased with any money I’ve ever spent as I am with those dollars I spent on that surgery. It’s fast, it doesn’t hurt, the recovery is quick and my results are awesome. Oh, did I mention I’m happy with the results?
I had it done and ended up with 2 levels above 20/20. Basically i can see alot further than most people and i think thats really cool.
You should have seen me before the surgery. I would walk straight past my mates and they’d get shitty at me for snobbing them off. I just couldnt see shit and everyone assumed i was ignoring them.
Its been 2 yrs now since i’ve done it and my eyes have never been better. Do it man. its great.
Does anyone have any information on what’s “safe” to do after surgery, or how long you should wait? I too would like to have this done, but I don’t want my eyes to explode during a set of squats or something.
I have decided against the surgery for a few of reasons. First of all, it IS surgery. Cutting into healthy eyes don’t make sense. Secondly, it is not reversable. Lastly, as one ages, there is a hyperopic shift–that is, one gets more farsighted. Therefore, you will later need reading glasses at a much earlier age than most people. I have decided to go the non-sugical route–othokeratology. You wear contacts at night and take them out in the morning. The contacts reshape your cornea so that you enjoy clear vision during the day. The advantage is that if you don’t like the results, you can go back to original vision, or if your vision changes later, you get new contacts fitted. As for LASIK, there is that 1% complication rate. When it happens to you, it’s 100% bad. I know someone whose surgury got botched and he has double vision all the time–not correctable with glasses. He lies in bed all the time, collecting disability. He’s in a huge funk. One more thing, after LASIK, you cannot wear contacts anymore.
the doc said not to light heavy for 5 days (some websites say 3 weeks and others vary so this is kinda weird) I asked why and she said: because you want to heal up right (I assume she ment that because of the stress on the body resources are put to muscle rebuilding and may take some resources away from eyes healing), I asked also about sweat getting in the eyes and she said “that too” and then talked about headbands on the head hehe now all I gots to do is get me one of those headbands and do curls in the squat rack to really piss off people. The sweat in the eye deal is because you are at a greater risk of infection and sweat might not be to clean (same goes for chlorine, hot tub, bath tub etc etc).
hey spanky, you cant workout at all for 2 weeks… dont ask why, you just cant. It may have to do with sweat going into your eyes. Also you cant wet your eyes for about a week i think after the surgey. And dont even think about having a smoke or going into smokey clubs and shit. -ozE
Anybody know how would go about get information as to where one would go to get the surgury? I’d rather pay full price to get it done right then to take a coupon and have some one mess up. I live in Phx.
I believe you cannot work out for a couple of weeks after LASIK due to the pressure on the eye during heavy exertion.
Wow, 2 weeks. OK. Thanks for the info guys.
I’ve also done this. It worked great, i now see about 80% of what a normal person sees.
It takes 2 weeks for your eye to heal, and during that time you have to be very carefull or you might end up blind, so it’s better that you don’t lift at all.
I’ve known two people who did laser eye surgery.
One had absolutely no complaints and was back to being close to 20/20. (This was a year ago)
The other went up to Canada (this was a couple years ago). First he was fine, then his night-vision degenerated to the point where he can’t drive/see at night anymore. I haven’t seen him in a couple years, but I hear he’s been really depressed since then.
My secretary had it done (here in Japan). Says it made a huge difference and recommends it without reservation.
How much does this cost??
commies took it away, capitalist pigs gave it back
Not many people know this but originally I was slated to be a commie killing machine, having the luck (or misfortune if you look at it a different way) to receive insanely good slavic genetics commie nazis deceided to augment my abilities and eventually use me to conquer Canada (aka America Jr.) then USA. But fuinding ran out, and the commie nazis took out my augs and turned off some of ems (where taking em out woulda killed me, for example my gigantic penis) anywho the end result was that I was still a bad@$$ but a bit less then a commie super killing machine. Later on having to wear glasses to see the black board in school and eventually needing glasses for most of lifes activities otherwise face a fuzzy world. Yesterday capitalist pigs used a excimer laser originally designed to carve out computer chips to ablete my cornea thus giving me superior vision. So far Im doin aight, and seeing I think 20/20, not much pain (the procedure where they cut out a flap in my cornea then laser the area underneath was painless, barely felt a thing, tho was nervous as a commie in starbucks) cept for having to use eye drops every few hours. Pain after the surgery lasted for about 2 hours (after numbing drops wore off) where I was thinking if this goes on for the next 3 days I will be a beoch to everyone I see, but then it went away and now I feel aight.
Before the surgery I went to surgialeyes.org and lasikdisaster.org or .com I forget. Both freakin sites freaked me out silly… but the docs site convinced me hes aight. If any of you doods thought about the surgery, its freakin amasing, but there are risks and side effects affecting like 1% of all patients (rought estimate) so if like 1mil people have it done a year 10,000 people get screwed (tho some of that 10k will get corrected using further surgery)… not a small number eh? the only side effect I am experiencing now are halos, imagine white objects and light sources being sorounded by their color outline, kinda pretty, feel like I`m in heaven. It cost me 1199 per bye (with 1 year of enhancements avaiable but trutly I don’t want to risk the thing again), one the Bausch and Lomb Technolas laser, the laser has a bigger treatment zone (for people with larger pupils like me, or really about 3/5ths of the world’s population) and has a eye tracker in case I moved my eye (and I did a few times, its hard not too (for me anyway), my eye wasn’t restrained in anyway). peace