By popular request - warning, kinda queazy for some

LMAO! That would be kind of funny, for a second or so, until you realized "Crap, this can't be good".

 

Agreed. I started this journey as someone that couldn't even give myself eye drops. Super sensitive eyes. This procedure cured me of that

I wasn't sedated, but they did give me two valiums. One was standard, I was still very nervous and couldn't stop flinching. Two valiums and they could've totally done anything to me they wanted. :-[

Sparky, looks like you're 44? My father-in-law got it done around same time as me and he was like 55-58 years old when he got it.

He still has to wear reading glasses, but that's it. And, in his words, only if he's doing "sustained reading". I think that's a funny way to put it, but still. He loves it...

Ask another doctor?





I SEE YOU

 

Yup, 44. There is NO WAY I'm looking into this after just spending $400 on a prescription pair of Maui Jim's.

J/K. Maybe I will. From what my Dr. said, I'm around the age where reading distances change, bifocals come into the picture, etc. He said that years before, they might offset this by overcorrecting, but since I'm right there--he feels it would be chancy.

I used to wear contacts, but I'm not a big fan. Glasses don't bother me, but I'm redheaded, fair skinned, and the sun absolutely kills me. I need top of the line polarized shades, and it's always been a problem getting a good pair. Now that Maui Jim does it at their lab, I'm assured of the quality I used to wear in my High School days, just in prescription. If these glasses work out (I'm going to pick them up after this post), I'll be a happy man.

But yeah. .. generally folks are squeamish with surgery esp. regarding the eyes. I have no issue with it. It's pretty straight forward and the success rate with no complications is astounding.

 

The avitar guessing game is over,your not a robot!!LOL !! Glad your good to go.;D

 

So, I'm reading this thread and looking at the photos while eating my lunch. I am trying to figure out where the queasy photos are. I think I saw the flap in the 2nd photo, if I remember correctly.

I really want to get Lasik. I am tired of being legally blind w/out corrective lens of any type. I also have astigmatism which makes contacts a real pain to get lined up properly. Any movement of them and I start seeing double...

 

hehe. Queasy is subjective. They don't bother me at all either.


I used my FSA account to pay for this. I know FSA isn't "free money" as it's mine... but it feels like it was a free operation because of it. Made it easy to pay for anyway.

I got the surgery in January a few years ago, we're allowed to "use up" our FSA before we fully fund it. Was a nice deal. Plus employer paid first $250 per eye. Not a stellar deal, but it all helps.

I got both eyes done at same time.

 

I've pretty much got LASIK or PRK (whichever is best I suppose) lined up for a college graduation present. My mom had it done in her 40's and loves it, although now that she's more advanced in years She needs glasses at night when driving to see well, but that's more of eye age rather than eye sight. My mom was also legally blind because her vision was so bad (like a -9 diopter or something. I'm a -3.) I can see decently without glasses, I just can't make out details like faces or words unless I'm close to someone. Anyways, her vision got corrected to 20/20 through LASIK, and I can't wait to get it done to me. I'm a contact person, but they're still annoying to hassle with. I'd rather not deal with that stuff at all.

 

LASIK tends to be better. Shorter recovery is the biggest advantage of LASIK.