What's your opinion of laser eye surgery?

[BeautifulLoser]

Originally posted by Crestfallen33
i'm scared by the fact that you can still see when you're locally anaesthetized

Yes, it was really fucking freaky.


I think it's fantastic. I got it done a few years ago, I still see great. Before I got the surgery, I couldn't see the big E on the chart anymore. If you have shitty eyes and have to wear glasses or contacts everyday, it's worth the lower prices they're offering these days. Seriously. It's fucking great to not have to pop in contacts everyday.

[BeautifulLoser]

Originally posted by murgle



Yeah. If they could completely knock me out and just use a lid-holder thingy to open my eyes (clockwork orange style?), I'd be less scared of it.. because I mean- what if you accidently blink, they miss with the laser and you go blind?

I'm just paranoid

They have a little contraption that keeps your lids open, no matter what you do. And the lazer is calibrated to immediately stop if it senses a movement of more than a fraction of an inch.

[BeautifulLoser]

Originally posted by murgle


One of the doctors down here that does it and gets a ton of press has apparently done over 50,000 procedures. That number has me a little scared. "Ok youre done. NEXT! *zap* Ok, you're done. NEXT! *zap*"

I wouldn't be too worried... the procedure is pretty quick, exactly as you described it. "*zap* next!" Generally, they get you in there long enough to anesthitize your eyes, set you down under the machine, *zap*, put some contact on your eyes as sort of bandages, and get you out.

[sppunk]

If it'll work, do it as soon as possible.

Remember, with Lasek, you will lose all the progress in 10-12 years and, in order to keep the clear vision you want, need to have it done then again.

[SuckSuckStyle]

a friend of mine had it done a long time ago and said it was the scariest thing she's ever done.

and you know that 1% of the people who get it that it fucks up their eyesight even more? she was one of them. it really really messed her up.

so i think it's scary but if i were in a position where i needed it, i'm not sure that i'd rule it out.

[weinerdog35]

Originally posted by Lucy Sky Diamonds
I'm having it done on February 24th...

Happy Birthday to ME

[Lucy Sky Diamonds]

Originally posted by BeautifulLoser
Yes, it was really fucking freaky.


I think it's fantastic. I got it done a few years ago, I still see great. Before I got the surgery, I couldn't see the big E on the chart anymore. If you have shitty eyes and have to wear glasses or contacts everyday, it's worth the lower prices they're offering these days. Seriously. It's fucking great to not have to pop in contacts everyday.

Know what I'd love to be able to do? Wake up at 4AM and see the time on the alarm clock.

Walk outside in the rain and not have water droplets obscuring my vision.

Not have my contacts bother me when I go visit a friend with cats.

Not push glasses up on my nose every 10 minutes.

But the seeing the alarm clock thing is what always tugs at my heart strings.

Which procedure did you have done? The Lasek one?

It's a few hours that you're there. The time to anesthetize your eyes, zapping, and then they kepe you for observation a few hours later.

[BeautifulLoser]

Originally posted by Lucy Sky Diamonds


Know what I'd love to be able to do? Wake up at 4AM and see the time on the alarm clock.

Walk outside in the rain and not have water droplets obscuring my vision.

Not have my contacts bother me when I go visit a friend with cats.

Not push glasses up on my nose every 10 minutes.

But the seeing the alarm clock thing is what always tugs at my heart strings.

Which procedure did you have done? The Lasek one?

It's a few hours that you're there. The time to anesthetize your eyes, zapping, and then they kepe you for observation a few hours later.

Hell yes. Seeing the alarm clock was fucking amazing.

The only thing that kinda bothers me is that I still see halos around lights at night, and they're slightly worse than when I wore contacts. But they're not bad enough that it impairs my driving or anything...

I got the one where they don't have to cut open your eyeball. I suppose they call that Lasek... it was called something else when I got it done, some acronym. But it was basically this: they hold your eye open with a little contraption, put some kind of solution on you eyes that basically disolves the outer layer, they rubbed that off with a cue tip (really fucking weird watching all this stuff...) they put the lazer over my eye and told me to stare at the red dot, you hear a noise and kinda smell burning (it was kinda gross...) and then they put some saline solution on your eyes, take of the eye lid thingy, and put some contacts in your eyes...

I could see better immediately. It was still cloudy, but I could read street signs. It was crazy.

It's different for some people, but the first few days afterward were crappy for me. I had to sit in a dark room with absolutely no light for 3 days. I felt like I had sand stuck in my eyes. Holy crap it sucked. But it was definitely worth it.

[hereisnowhy]

I'd think it over very carefully. Remember, when people come out of there and see spots or purple hazes or have no night vision, as long as they can still read an eye chart at 20/20 the company still chalks them up as a successful customer. So be sceptical about success statistics.

Here's a good thread on the issue: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...1&tid=4&tid=14

[Lucy Sky Diamonds]

Originally posted by BeautifulLoser


Hell yes. Seeing the alarm clock was fucking amazing.

The only thing that kinda bothers me is that I still see halos around lights at night, and they're slightly worse than when I wore contacts. But they're not bad enough that it impairs my driving or anything...

I got the one where they don't have to cut open your eyeball. I suppose they call that Lasek... it was called something else when I got it done, some acronym. But it was basically this: they hold your eye open with a little contraption, put some kind of solution on you eyes that basically disolves the outer layer, they rubbed that off with a cue tip (really fucking weird watching all this stuff...) they put the lazer over my eye and told me to stare at the red dot, you hear a noise and kinda smell burning (it was kinda gross...) and then they put some saline solution on your eyes, take of the eye lid thingy, and put some contacts in your eyes...

I could see better immediately. It was still cloudy, but I could read street signs. It was crazy.

It's different for some people, but the first few days afterward were crappy for me. I had to sit in a dark room with absolutely no light for 3 days. I felt like I had sand stuck in my eyes. Holy crap it sucked. But it was definitely worth it.

My night vision is pretty bad anyhow, even with glasses on I see halos around fucking everything. (I don't drive, so it's not a problem.)

[Toby]

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[Lucy Sky Diamonds]

So.... I need $1600 (CANADIAN) to have it done.

Anyone has any spare change?

[DieDiemydarling]

i have 10c, want it?

[Lucy Sky Diamonds]

Originally posted by DieDiemydarling
i have 10c, want it?

I accept paypal.

[DieDiemydarling]

ok