[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Lasik (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/21/2010 6:34:38 PM EDT
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I am having lasik on December 29th. I have to say that I am a little nervous. My eye sight is quite easy to repair with lasik. I am minus 1.12 in my right and minus 1.25 in my right. I have a slight astigmatism in both eyes.
As of next thursday, I should have great vision for the first time in my life. I have worn these damn glasses since I was 10 years old. I am absolutely positive this is the biggest prep I have ever decided on. Cold wet days will no longer be torture for me. The .22 rimfire shoots will easier when I don't drop shots because I can't see the sights. Hiking in the woods in the winter will be fun again. I will probably tend to wear safety glasses quite a bit when its getting dark so I don't poke myself in the eye. I will give a report once I get it done and see the results. The place I am going Clear Choice custom lasik center, has the wavefront technology. I am having the laser do the flap instead of the knife. This company gives a lifetime warranty. If I ever need it touched up or redone, its free. They are having a special and its $3100 and I am financing it interest free for 6 months. I will pay it off in 5 months. |
| I had it done in 05 after having my glasses knocked off while chasing some illegals through the woods. I tell everyone that asks me about it, that if I had to do it every year to maintain how good I see I would. My eyes were similar to yours I think a little worse and as of my last physical I still have 20/10 vision. It really was worth the money and if you are a LEO it is tax deductible so that is a plus. Good luck you won't be sorry.. |
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I feel bad for your experience. You might notice that nearly everyone in your thread liked the results. Even if they were not perfect. Did you have the blade or laser to create and cut the flap? I am having the custom wavefront at one of the best places in the area. The place I am going has a lifetime warranty. If I ever need it fixed or adjusted, its free. I was the only person in the place today, so I was not rushed even a tiny bit. |
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I had my eyes done about 6 years ago and for me it was by far the best money I've spent. It was cheap, I was seeing better than 20/10 the next day, no complications, no issues.
To this day I swear I thought I smelled something burning, that made me a little uneasy, but I'd pay 5 times the money if I had to do it again. |
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both my wife and I have terrible eyesight that runs in the family. between us, we have about 25 family members that have had it done. no one has had any problems and the one consistent comment is that they would have done it sooner.
It is worth ALOT more then they charge. |
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Good luck on your procedure, Bat, and thanks for posting this, because it reminded me of why I upped my FSA to the maximum-allowable for 2011 ($4k).
I'll be calling to set up an appointment to have this done in January. My regular eye-doc says I would be a good candidate to have Lasik done in only one eye, that way I wouldn't have to use reading glasses, because I take my distance glasses off to read now. One for distance (my shooting eye) and the other for depth perception and up close. We'll see how it goes. I'll subscribe to this thread to post my results, which will probably be sometime in January. |
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Quoted: I had my eyes done about 6 years ago and for me it was by far the best money I've spent. It was cheap, I was seeing better than 20/10 the next day, no complications, no issues. To this day I swear I thought I smelled something burning, that made me a little uneasy, but I'd pay 5 times the money if I had to do it again. I watched through the window while they did my wife's eyes. Thy cut the flap, and smoke did come off of her eye when the laser did its thing. |
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Had it done coming up on three years ago. I remain very happy with my decision. My wife had it done at the same time.
I had the procedure where they tune your left eye for reading, right for distance. GREAT for shooting. I did have some "dry eye" problems, and have been using prescription eye drops since, but...no big deal. Hint/tip: Take fish oil capsules EVERY day and it will really help your eyes. My surgeon, who is one of best in nation, recommended it. |
Me and the wife had it done about 3 years back...almost $8k for both of us. We financed it interest free for 12 months, paid it off in 10. Best money I ever spent, like the rest!!! My vision has been -3.5 for like the past 25 years, now is 20/15. Wife's was almost -5 and getting progressively worse...hers is now 20/20. Don't have to add spare glasses and contacts to the SHTF preps...priceless! Lifetime tune-up also.
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I've been wearing rigid gas permeable contacts for almost 30 years, with the correction slowly growing to about -6.5 diopters. I've thought about it, but the one side efect that keeps me away from it is problems with driving at night. While it's ony a 1-2% chance of de facto night blindness, I can't take the risk - I drive at night all the time.
I'm holding out for implantable corrective lenses. Currently approved for people needing -12 correction or worse, I'm letting them be the guinea pigs. |
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I guess I'm far-sighted. I need reading glasses for anything within about six feet and it is getting worse. Distant vision is good.
I'm 57, but I still like to shoot w/ iron sights. I'm wondering if this would be a good procedure for me. I have reading glasses laying around evrywhere. |
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I guess I'm far-sighted. I need reading glasses for anything within about six feet and it is getting worse. Distant vision is good. I'm 57, but I still like to shoot w/ iron sights. I'm wondering if this would be a good procedure for me. I have reading glasses laying around evrywhere. I would find a place with good reviews and get a evaluation. It was free where I went. |
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Been wearing glasses since I was 10, and contacts off and on since I was 16. After 4 years of trying, I was finally able to get ICL in both eyes. I was seeing 20/15 in my left eye, and 20/15.5 in my right eye, three days after the surgery. 8 months later, I am seeing 20/20 in both.
Best thing I ever did! |
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I had it done in 2005 or 2006 (cant remember which) Pretty good vision... but massive halo and starbursting in very dark conditions- to the point that its hard to see anything as a result. However, if there is street lighting or some other light source like a flash light.... the halos go down... and remain a bit smaller than they did with contacts. Also flurosecent lights mess me up... like if I come out of a walmart and drive home at night... big starbursts and halos that won't go down for a bit -more lighting doesnt help these ones. Today I am about 95% of where I was 5 years ago right after getting LASIK... and that was only because of the Swine Flu (it messed my vision up terribly - not sure how but I was really blurry for awhile). As for whether I would do it again with the results I have now.... I don't know. The night vision thing can be unbearable.... but most everything else is great. |
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Interesting, I'm thinking about Lasik or some other type of corrective action. Eye Dr. said that the new lens replacement will probably become as common as Lasik in another 5 years. And you get both near and far vision. Did you have to tell the Dr. that you shoot and did that play a role in how they corrected your vision? |
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You never did answer my question. Did you get the blade or bladeless procedure? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Interesting, I'm thinking about Lasik or some other type of corrective action. Eye Dr. said that the new lens replacement will probably become as common as Lasik in another 5 years. And you get both near and far vision. Did you have to tell the Dr. that you shoot and did that play a role in how they corrected your vision? WARNING! Look into lens replacement. My father recently had it done. Very bad results. Cant read or see at range. Cant get into it but the state is investigating his doctor for malpractice. The state says lens replacement not ready for prime time. |
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Interesting, I'm thinking about Lasik or some other type of corrective action. Eye Dr. said that the new lens replacement will probably become as common as Lasik in another 5 years. And you get both near and far vision. Did you have to tell the Dr. that you shoot and did that play a role in how they corrected your vision? WARNING! Look into lens replacement. My father recently had it done. Very bad results. Cant read or see at range. Cant get into it but the state is investigating his doctor for malpractice. The state says lens replacement not ready for prime time. That's interesting. My eye doc was saying that in the future if I ever got cataracts that lens replacemt was the way to go. Now Im' wondering... Can they replace the lens in this procedure? |
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People, please, do us all the courtesy of using Google to learn just a tiny bit about what a discussion is about. LASIK is a procedure using lasers, not blades. I'm not sure anyone uses blades anymore. Are you aware of how they create the flap? They use two methods, that were described in great detail to me at the consultation. One way is to use a blade. The other is to use a laser. |
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Quoted:You never did answer my question. Did you get the blade or bladeless procedure? If I can get more than 24 hours of time to reply I will.
I don't know if it was blade or laser. The procedure was in 2005. |
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Had it done 3 years ago. Best $4k I ever spent on me. You won't regret it. For me, had it done 8 years ago and it was the best $4.2K I have EVER spent. I was -6.25 and -5.5 with astigmatism as well. I will get it "reworked" in a few years, once my later 40's creep up on me. Good luck and follow the rules the Dr. gives you to the letter. Rest and relaxation and stay away from eye irritants for a few weeks. Good luck! |
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I have replied to some of these over the years, I had prk done which shapes the eyeball with a laser but there is no flap since they scrape all that stuff off the eyeball. I needed a perfect surface for all that stuff to grow back on and a laser was all that would provide a perfect surface. Had already had it manually scraped several times, 4 or 5 I guess but it has been a decade and I don't dwell on it. I don't have much problem at night and still drive without needing corrective lenses. But I would not risk my eyeballs if I wind up needing corrective lenses later in life. I got to where my eyeballs were messed up and this was a last resort and since a laser was already being used to clean the eyeball up it was no biggy to program the laser to burn in a way that would correct vision. I don't know about all the various eyeball layers anymore but with prk the layer where cataracts form is no longer there and it is one layer of the eyeball that can not grow back. I can get what are called secondary cataracts but that is just scar tissue causing issues over decades. It will act like a cataract to me but it is not a cataract. As far as lifetime warranty goes, I just come back around to the risk of your eyeballs. My eye doctor still wears glasses and his job requires his eye sight to be excellant. He does need corrective lenses but he won't get laser surgery done so that kind of tells me something there. I know a lot of folks who are so happy they had it and as ops said they would do anything to get the money to have it done in the future. I spent a lot of time in one of the best eyeball specialists office in ohio. I visited some colleges to see other well respected eyeball people. I never wanted to read the article but I wound up being discussed in an eyeball magazine because of how manual scraping would not work but manual scraping with a laser cleanup worked first time around. When researching docs there are docs who spend a lot of money on advertising and get their name around. Mine is not that big of a name nationally until you start looking for the best at correcting things. He gets a lot of problems from other docs sent his way. I fully understand how awesome it is to not need corrective lenses and what not. However, consider the risk of winding up legally blind with no way to correct your vision. Lasik was available when I had prk done but I needed the surface layer or two of the eyeball gone so prk is what I had done at a lasik center my doc uses one day a week or one day every other week or something. You can run searches on this site and find more posts I have made and that others have made, I am off to read that archived thread and I might be in that. I was about to the point where I was going to be declared legally blind or something because my eyeballs would not hold together, the surface could scratch from me blinking let alone a piece of dust getting in my eye. My concept of pain tolerance changed a bit for my eyes because anyone who has scratched their eye knows the pain that comes with that. I would have given anything to be able to see without having to worry about having my eye scratch in the next blink. Sometimes I could go hours and sometimes a whole day without a problem. Sometimes one eye messed up but when you have these problems you really don't want to risk driving or anything. And if both eyes acted up I was in pain and unable to see diddly squat. You won't be driving and you wind up setting your house up like a blind man so that if you are in the shower and can't see you can finish showering and get dried off and dressed. Cooking really becomes interesting but answering the doorbell for pizza is easy if you folded your money like blind folks do to tell the different denominations apart. I won't risk losing the ability to see well enough to drive. I won't risk the ability to see well at night with or without flashlights or headlights and what not. I spent hundreds of hours to thousands of hours in an eye specialists waiting room. I talked to a lot of folks and listened a lot and watched when I could see. No way would I risk eyesight to get rid of corrective lenses. |
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"I never wanted to read the article but I wound up being discussed in an eyeball magazine because of how manual scraping would not work but manual scraping with a laser cleanup worked first time around."
Biere, were you one of the early candidates for PRK? Did you have complications and were they resolved satisfactorily? |
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Interesting, I'm thinking about Lasik or some other type of corrective action. Eye Dr. said that the new lens replacement will probably become as common as Lasik in another 5 years. And you get both near and far vision. Did you have to tell the Dr. that you shoot and did that play a role in how they corrected your vision? WARNING! Look into lens replacement. My father recently had it done. Very bad results. Cant read or see at range. Cant get into it but the state is investigating his doctor for malpractice. The state says lens replacement not ready for prime time. Sounds like his surgeon and/or the lens they used sucks. This is being done more and more but the quality of the surgeon and their choice in the lens are the key to success. My father had it done in one eye with horrible results and the other with good results. He refers to his bad eye as the butcher eye with the wal-mart lens. On another note my wife works for a medical marketing company that markets exclusively for ophthalmologists throughout the US. She has been in the OR with surgeons in different states and knows several. Everybody thinks their surgeon is "one of the best in the country" if you want an objective opinion from someone who has met the best from each part of the country then shoot me an IM. DON'T USE A MULTI LOCATION CHEAPO CLINIC WITH A TRAVELING DOC!!!! Grove ETA This is a good locator resource. It isn't all inclusive and I'm not advocating for all of them but they do screen and research before allowing listings. |
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I had my eyes done about 6 years ago and for me it was by far the best money I've spent. It was cheap, I was seeing better than 20/10 the next day, no complications, no issues. To this day I swear I thought I smelled something burning, that made me a little uneasy, but I'd pay 5 times the money if I had to do it again. I smelled burning and so did my brother. Nothing like the smell of your own flesh burning. Grove |
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Had it done coming up on three years ago. I remain very happy with my decision. My wife had it done at the same time. I had the procedure where they tune your left eye for reading, right for distance. GREAT for shooting. I did have some "dry eye" problems, and have been using prescription eye drops since, but...no big deal. Hint/tip: Take fish oil capsules EVERY day and it will really help your eyes. My surgeon, who is one of best in nation, recommended it. Sounds like you went to Tauber or Durrie.....Am I right? |