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Okay, who's had Lasik?
DH has been trying to get me to have Lasik eye surgery for a couple of years. I don't really like the idea of someone messing with my eyes, but I'm sick of dealing with my contacts / glasses, and the last time I saw the optometrist she told me there was some very minimal scarring on my eyes from wearing contacts for so long (since I was 15). So what's the point in resisting if I'm gonna have damage anyway, right?
What's your experience w/ Lasik? The REAL story (good, bad, whatever). I need to make an informed decision.
TIA!
What's your experience w/ Lasik? The REAL story (good, bad, whatever). I need to make an informed decision.
TIA!
Re: Okay, who's had Lasik?
I had Lasik in 3/2007 and wish I had done it YEARS sooner than I did. It has really changed my life for the better. Prior to Lasik, I had REALLY bad vision - literally could not see my hand a foot in front of my face without it being really blurry. Couldn't see the alarm clock on my nightstand - everything without glasses just looked like blobs of color. Now, post-Lasik I'm 20/15. I can see street signs down the block at night just fine.
The surgery itself was a little un-nerving, but I had a friend with me that gave me some good words of advice "concentrate on breathing calmly" and not to be alarmed by the thing that sounded like a sewing machine - it's a normal noise. The whole thing took less than 5 minutes + about 12 hours of good sleep.
Surgery details: They advised me to take an Advil PM about 30 mins before to help keep me calm. I went in and they put your head in a thing that keeps you from moving. They put some drops in your eyes to numb them out so that you don't feel anything and then they insert a clamp to keep them open. All you feel is pressure. Then they ask you to focus on a light and then your vision in that eye goes down to a little pinprick, then blinks out - like old fashioned TV's used to do. The nurse counted down less than 20 seconds and then the pin-prick of light came back and widened out again. Everything came back but was blurry. Remove the clamp. Same thing on the other eye. Then you sit up and they ask you to look at an eye chart on the wall. Things are blurry, but you know they're better. For me, things were already less blurry than when I had my glasses off. They give you drops (2 wks) & sunglasses (to get you home) & goggles to wear at night for a few days. Someone else drives you home. You go home - in my case you drink a scotch - and you go to sleep. Wake up, take some more Advil PM - go back to sleep. The next morning, I DROVE MYSELF to the follow-up appt WITH NO GLASSES ON. My vision was crystal clear.
I get a little blurry when I'm fatigued (I work on a computer all day so that's normal with or without glasses) and I get slight halos from streetlamps & headlights, but I got those with my glasses anyway. They told me that I will need reading glasses again when I'm 40-45, but never to the degree that I needed glasses before - I'll be able to just pick them up off the drugstore rack next time.
Being as athletic as I am, I really wish I'd done it long ago.
I wanted to do it before my wedding but Lasikplus in Kenwood told me I had funky corneas & they would not do it. The Lasikplus in Dayton would though-although I decided heck no after my evaluation at Kenwood!! So I guess I would do at least 2, maybe 3 evaluations (I had one at a center I can't think of, was going to do Midwest Eye Center until I got the bad news). My dad goes to Midwest for his macular degeneration & my sister has gone for a corneal ulcer so I would probably feel good about their evaluation. Also, my co-worker had PRK a few years ago-she sees great during the day but not at night. My mom had the old RK in the early 90s (when they used an actual scapel). She was to the point where she couldn't wear contacts at all and she had great vision for years after the procedure. In the last 5-10 years she's used reading glasses and now she has prescription trifocals. She's not to happy about that but hey, she's 60 now and had 15 or so years of great vision!