Anyone Had Lasik?

[Lee]

Sometime in January / February im considering having Lasik surgery done on my eyes, just wondered if anyone on GWW has had it done in the past?

The prices for this procedure have come down a lot in the last year or two, so much in fact, that its going to work out being more cost effective to have this done than to keep getting prescriptions filled for contacts or glasses.

Regards,

Lee

[SLS]

I want to badly and I really hope someday I can afford it. Did you watch Jessica Simpson have it done on her MTV show? It looked so simple and easy! They just cut the top layer of your eye and skin it, shit my dry contacts have done that to me before. It was nasty I had to push the cut layer back up into place and take a nap, I so won't ever wear contacts again. I'm already sick of these glasses though, so can't wait until it's an even more mainstream procedure.

[gaybucks_chip]

perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I just look at the notion of cutting into a healthy eye and it just doesn't seem sensible.

Additionally, while the procedure is extraordinarily safe (i.e., as far as I know, no reports of blindness as a result of the procedure), there *is* data collected by an opthalmologist at UC San Francisco (I think) to indicate that complications (optical abberations) are way more common than is reported, because the traditional tests don't have a way to categorize the complaints, which are usually things like permanent halos around lights or bright objects, "starlight" effects, etc. The guy wrote a journal article sometime back about it, and developed a means of charting that data. Unfortunately, I don't have any citation to the article any more.

So... for me, I'm much happier staying with the glasses... finally got sick of taking my glasses off to read and found some progressive bifocals that actually work for me, which I guess means I'm admitting being old

[Matt 26z]

I need to be about 6 inches away from my computer screen to see it without my glasses. So I'd love to have this done, but only when it's 99.99% risk free.

Double vision, halos, night vision loss... These are all things people report. The night vision loss is the most reported side effect.

I was watching this guy on TV once and he had double vision afterwords, but since he was 20/20 on the eye chart it was considered a success. So now this guy is a part of the success statistics that the laser eye industry uses.

I'd like to know what the actual percentage of patients are who experience no side effects at all.

[basschick]

i thought about it, but turns out that i'm not a good candidate because my eyes change frequently.