LASIK: Trip Report

[Randle]

Or contacts. I've worn them for years and they're pretty good...

[Shilly]

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5000?

Aren't there places that do it for 2k?

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[kevyk]

I think you'd be surprised how much the technology has advanced already. I had what is known as wavefront or custom LASIK. What this means is that they use an instrument that maps your eye very precisely using light waves.

This is a huge improvement over previous methods since it measures higher-order defects in the curvature of the eye which were not detected by the old method and which glasses don't fix. For instance, my vision had about a 0.5-diopter error due to higher-order defects. Haloes and blurring are much less common now, and achieving perfect-or-better vision is much more likely.

[ilya]

This thread reminds me that "better than perfect" is just as inane and annoying a phrase as "we gave it 110%."

Glad to hear the procedure went well, OP.

[ilya]

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Glasses are [censored] lame. Also, it's really [censored] awesome when they go get that lasik thing done. They look like a normal human being.

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FYP.

Signed,

A former glasses (now contacts wearer)

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Sounds like those junior high buttholes really got inside your head.

[ilya]

Question: do they put your head in some sort of vice, or are YOU ALONE responsible for not twitching / looking in the right spot / etc??

[Shajen]

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Glasses are [censored] lame. Also, it's really [censored] awesome when they go get that lasik thing done. They look like a normal human being.

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FYP.

Signed,

A former glasses (now contacts wearer)

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Sounds like those junior high buttholes really got inside your head.

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Nah dude. I hate wearing glasses and contacts though. I wear contacts now, mainly cause I haven't set aside the $3500-$5000 for lasik yet. It just gets really old, especially not being able to see when you go to sleep and stuff. Everytime I set aside the money for it, something else comes up and I end up spending the cash.

Wishing I were a baller,

Shajen

[Mvcode3]

Has anyone had this surgery and had signifigant complacations?

[ilya]

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Glasses are [censored] lame. Also, it's really [censored] awesome when they go get that lasik thing done. They look like a normal human being.

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FYP.

Signed,

A former glasses (now contacts wearer)

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Sounds like those junior high buttholes really got inside your head.

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Nah dude. I hate wearing glasses and contacts though. I wear contacts now, mainly cause I haven't set aside the $3500-$5000 for lasik yet. It just gets really old, especially not being able to see when you go to sleep and stuff. Everytime I set aside the money for it, something else comes up and I end up spending the cash.

Wishing I were a baller,

Shajen

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I understand where you're coming from...I've had glasses for a long time, and my eyes are pretty bad. I did the contacts thing for a couple of years, and I did like being able to see clearly all around me, but it got to be such a pain taking them out and washing them every night that I went back to glasses. Now I actually kinda like being able to turn my eyes off without closing them, but it is a bit annoying for stuff like skiing and swimming.

[snagglepuss]

im looking into this surgery as well and have the same question as ilya:

do they out you in some sort of headvice to cease all movement?

i would hate to sneaze and get a laserbeam through my face.