Ulimate LASIK poll

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
I would wait till the technology is better. I had LASIK done through TLC 3 years ago, and the first year was great! Perfect 20/20 vision. However, my vision gradually regressed and I'm now -100 in both eyes and will need an enhancement. I'm dreading doing it, going to suck! To make it worse, the stupid paid off TLC outpatient opt's give me the run around b/c an enchancement is very expensive for them (free for me) to do. Pisses me off when they say stupid sht like: I would wait a couple more years until your eyes stop growing at age 30 (which a total fallacy).

-100D, WTF, that is beyond being blind.

It was dumb of you to get it down when your vision wasn't stable yet. Getting lasik before stable vision is teh lose.

Wow, you're pretty dense, because 3 different optometrists told me I was a perfect candidate to have it done. I was -300 in one eye and -400 at age 25 when I had it done. No, not everyone is a fcking success story, 5% of people who get LASIK actually don't get 20/20. Your mommy never told you that, I presume?

Here's some tips to think about before you get LASIK:
1. When asked by a patient what he thinks of LASIK, Doctor Minarik will often give the following answer:
(A) LASIK involves the damaging of healthy nerve endings that will limit your ability to make tears.
(B) LASIK can correct your distance vision but does not eliminate the need for reading glasses in our forties.
(C) LASIK is like a little European roadster: You'd like to have it in your twenties but can't afford it, but when you have the money to buy it when you're in your forties your fat butt doesn't fit in it.
(D) If I created a procedure to save your life and had a 5% failure rate, I would win a Nobel Prize. If I invent a procedure that simple intends to replace your glasses, and you have a 5% chance of hating me for the rest of your life...that's not good odds or good medicine.
(E) All of the above are likely to be said.

Taken from http://doctormyeye.com/bulletinboard/home.php

 

[TheNinja]

I would just suggest that everyone do their own research and decide what risks/rewards they are willing to take.

For me, I'm a 28 year old healthy person and my eyes have stopped regressing for at least 2 years. Also, I was getting infections and corneal issues with contacts so I was stuck with glasses most of the time.

I'll let you know after about a month but it is pretty good so far, just a little dry and foggy when it gets dry.

I was worried about possible blindness but after research found that this is a VERYsmall possiblity and me sticking with contacts was more likely to go blind, the biggest issues are dry eyes, halos (which are improving due to better/wider lasers), and sometimes your eye can be damaged so that you can't correct to 20/20 even with glasses.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I would just suggest that everyone do their own research and decide what risks/rewards they are willing to take.

For me, I'm a 28 year old healthy person and my eyes have stopped regressing for at least 2 years. Also, I was getting infections and corneal issues with contacts so I was stuck with glasses most of the time.

I'll let you know after about a month but it is pretty good so far, just a little dry and foggy when it gets dry.

I was worried about possible blindness but after research found that this is a VERYsmall possiblity and me sticking with contacts was more likely to go blind, the biggest issues are dry eyes, halos (which are improving due to better/wider lasers), and sometimes your eye can be damaged so that you can't correct to 20/20 even with glasses.

TheNinja, good luck. Just make sure you have a lifetime guarantee in case they fck it up. The eye surgeon who did my LASIK actually fcked up my dad's eyes a year later (redid LASIK a 2nd time to get rid of cateracts), such that my dad had to use drops to make his pupil contract, so I consider myself lucky at only -100 regression. I can still drive during the day and funtion normally at -100, but will wear contacts at night if driving b/c I can't see anything.

Regarding my enhancement, I actually went to an optometrist who is outside of the stupid TLC network so I could get an unbiased opinion. He said I'm the perfect candidate for an enhancement at my age/prescription, and surprise I emailed TLC last week about it and still haven't heard back. Looks like I'm going to have to jump through hoops and do naked handstands to get them to do this procedure.

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
I would wait till the technology is better. I had LASIK done through TLC 3 years ago, and the first year was great! Perfect 20/20 vision. However, my vision gradually regressed and I'm now -100 in both eyes and will need an enhancement. I'm dreading doing it, going to suck! To make it worse, the stupid paid off TLC outpatient opt's give me the run around b/c an enchancement is very expensive for them (free for me) to do. Pisses me off when they say stupid sht like: I would wait a couple more years until your eyes stop growing at age 30 (which a total fallacy).

-100D, WTF, that is beyond being blind.

It was dumb of you to get it down when your vision wasn't stable yet. Getting lasik before stable vision is teh lose.

Wow, you're pretty dense, because 3 different optometrists told me I was a perfect candidate to have it done. I was -300 in one eye and -400 at age 25 when I had it done. No, not everyone is a fcking success story, 5% of people who get LASIK actually don't get 20/20. Your mommy never told you that, I presume?

Here's some tips to think about before you get LASIK:
1. When asked by a patient what he thinks of LASIK, Doctor Minarik will often give the following answer:
(A) LASIK involves the damaging of healthy nerve endings that will limit your ability to make tears.
(B) LASIK can correct your distance vision but does not eliminate the need for reading glasses in our forties.
(C) LASIK is like a little European roadster: You'd like to have it in your twenties but can't afford it, but when you have the money to buy it when you're in your forties your fat butt doesn't fit in it.
(D) If I created a procedure to save your life and had a 5% failure rate, I would win a Nobel Prize. If I invent a procedure that simple intends to replace your glasses, and you have a 5% chance of hating me for the rest of your life...that's not good odds or good medicine.
(E) All of the above are likely to be said.

Taken from http://doctormyeye.com/bulletinboard/home.php

I was refering to the fact that you don't have -100D, but 20/100 vision.

 

[robphelan]

i read an article in Time magazine a couple of years ago about an eye procedure that could re-shape your cornea with x amount of incisions/laser cuts/whatever... enabling you to "count the hairs on a cat from across the room".

anyone remember that article?

i wonder if waveform is an early technology similar to it.

if i wanted better than 20/20 vision, could I get it?

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: robphelan
i read an article in Time magazine a couple of years ago about an eye procedure that could re-shape your cornea with x amount of incisions/laser cuts/whatever... enabling you to "count the hairs on a cat from across the room".

anyone remember that article?

i wonder if waveform is an early technology similar to it.

if i wanted better than 20/20 vision, could I get it?

I don't think 20/20 is actually "perfect" vision. Some people can actually get 20/15 or even 20/12. The day after my LASIK I had 20/15 in my right eye and 20/40 in my left (both which are legal for driving and "acceptable" for LASIK). I hope my left gets better b/c 20/40 isn't that great.

Also I read about a newer procedure where they put something in your eye, then customize it to you. This is reversable and doesn't actually affect your own cornea. However it is still a ways away and I wanted something I could benefit from for many years.

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I would just suggest that everyone do their own research and decide what risks/rewards they are willing to take.

For me, I'm a 28 year old healthy person and my eyes have stopped regressing for at least 2 years. Also, I was getting infections and corneal issues with contacts so I was stuck with glasses most of the time.

I'll let you know after about a month but it is pretty good so far, just a little dry and foggy when it gets dry.

I was worried about possible blindness but after research found that this is a VERYsmall possiblity and me sticking with contacts was more likely to go blind, the biggest issues are dry eyes, halos (which are improving due to better/wider lasers), and sometimes your eye can be damaged so that you can't correct to 20/20 even with glasses.

TheNinja, good luck. Just make sure you have a lifetime guarantee in case they fck it up. The eye surgeon who did my LASIK actually fcked up my dad's eyes a year later (redid LASIK a 2nd time to get rid of cateracts), such that my dad had to use drops to make his pupil contract, so I consider myself lucky at only -100 regression. I can still drive during the day and funtion normally at -100, but will wear contacts at night if driving b/c I can't see anything.

Regarding my enhancement, I actually went to an optometrist who is outside of the stupid TLC network so I could get an unbiased opinion. He said I'm the perfect candidate for an enhancement at my age/prescription, and surprise I emailed TLC last week about it and still haven't heard back. Looks like I'm going to have to jump through hoops and do naked handstands to get them to do this procedure.

Ya, I paid the extra $200 per eye to get "lifetime touchup". I'm not sure an exactly what point they do the touchup but anything less than 20/40 is unacceptable (b/c that is legal for driving in California) and should be redone in my opinion.

I hope you can get yours redone man...good luck to you.

 

[Avalon]

Wow, I was going to make a thread on this very same topic, but looks like I've found an existing one

I've been contemplating getting corrective vision surgery on my eyes for a couple years now. However, since I'm only 21, I'm trying to wait until about 25 or so, since I heard that was generally when your eyes finished changing for the most part.

The video on the first page of this thread scared the crap out of me...I had to turn it off within the first 5 seconds. I'm very sensitive to the topic of eyes, plus my eyes get watery very easily...and I can't even touch them. I tried getting contacts, but couldn't even touch my eye to take them out when my optomitrist put them in for me. I'm getting pretty near sighted, which is bothering me...but after looking at this thread...I feel that there's no way I can go with this proceedure.

Is there any way to be unconscious?

 

[Shawn]

update?

 

[ohmide]

I did it last summer. My eyes were -9.5 and -9.0 with a ton of astigmatism so I was obviously worried prior to getting it. Interlase/Lasiks...so both a laser to cut the flap and to zap the eye.

Eyes were super cloudy for 3 days but it got better and better after that. At 1 month I felt stabalized but there were small changes for the next 4 months or so.

I still have to put drops in when I wake up in the morning becasue they do stay super dry. At night time I do see halos...and when my eyes are very dry the halos are pretty bad. I can
still drive of course but it is just an annoyance.

I just went in for my last checkup so 10 months and I'm 20/25 in both...I'm cool with that. 4K well spent in my opinion.

1. Did you see perfectly after 3 days? Nope
2. How long until both eyes could see well and weren't incredibly dry. Never really stopped
3. Are you cool? Yup

 

[mrrman]

Originally posted by: BriGy86

Originally posted by: Pakman
Found this video in another Lasik post.... It's real similar to how they do it now, but when then cut the top part of your eye, they use this suction device to prevent your eyeball from moving..

LASIK PROCEDURE

oh god, are you completely awake during that?

looks like it would be freaky as hell

kinda freaky lookin

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
Wow! 100% satisfaction out of 10 people

Better yet, more people love the American Ninja, Dudikoff, than love LASIK!!!

American Ninja rocks.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: mrrman

Originally posted by: BriGy86

Originally posted by: Pakman
Found this video in another Lasik post.... It's real similar to how they do it now, but when then cut the top part of your eye, they use this suction device to prevent your eyeball from moving..

LASIK PROCEDURE

oh god, are you completely awake during that?

looks like it would be freaky as hell

kinda freaky lookin

WTF.....ugh

 

[Jikininki]

Originally posted by: middlehead

Originally posted by: FoBoT
maybe in a couple more years when they get it really really really really really really really perfect

i'm too scare that they might fvck up my eyes. and I'm also scared about the whole being awake part..what if my eye like..moves by accident during it...and he cuts my eyeball in half?
OMG.

too risky.

 

[codeyf]

Had it done September of '03. Wouldn't hesitate to do it again.

 

[kranky]

My wife had it done three months ago. Her eyes are still a bit dry, and her vision isn't 20/20, but that was expected as her correction was very significant. It will be another three months before they know for sure where her vision will end up.

But she no longer needs her glasses and she feels it was well worth it.

 

[JDrake]

/me cringes

 

[TBone48]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
edit: I did it last Friday the 20th. A couple questions:

1. Did you see perfectly after 3 days?
2. How long until both eyes could see well and weren't incredibly dry
3. Are you cool?

I didn't have my vision corrected, but people tell me I'm cool.

 

[StrangeRanger]

Here's another option that I've been looking into:
http://www.singereye.com/about_Verisyse.pdf

j

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: StrangeRanger
Here's another option that I've been looking into:
http://www.singereye.com/about_Verisyse.pdf

j

That does look good, is that available in the United States yet?

 

[StrangeRanger]

Yes, that's right here in lovely Vermont. I like that it's reversable.

j

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: Shawn
update?

Love it!
Would I do it again? You bet!

The only thing is that once in a while my eyes get dry at night. LIke when you leave ur contacts in too long...but there are no contacts to take out. But overall they are no more dry now than when I had contacts. Night vision is a little wierd, but it probably isn't bad, it's probably just b/c I think about it now.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
I had a cornea transplant, does that count for anything?

Viper GTS

I already knew that Ed!