Lasik Eye Surgery ( Archived) (36)

You'll do what you want and what you think is best, but I wouldn't recommend it. I have the same presciption I had when I was 12 (I'm close to your age), and have no history or eye problems or diabetes in the family, so I'm not going to risk it.

The history of commercial "lasik surgery" is barely more than 20 years, and post-surgery problems still occur in some cases. Unless you don't expect to live much longer, you may live long enough to see (or rather, not see) major problems or complications that aren't known about now.

There's also the issue of aging. As you get older, the eyes are less flexible than young eyes. What if your eyes are too "old" to heal after the surgery?




I can understand surgery for people who are nearly blind, have difficulty seeing, or suffered eye injuries. But doing it solely out of vanity is not a good idea. (It sounds a lot like the issue of breast implants, doesn't it?)

About ten years ago, I stopped wearing large lenses like these:



Now my lenses are 1" high, 2" wide, and the frames thin enough to fit between the eyebrow and cheek bone. The lenses are barely more than a half inch from my eyes (not exactly like the picture):



Glasses like these weigh half as much as large lenses which means they don't slip down the nose. Also, skin and sweat rub on them less despite how close they are to the face, and I have my full peripheral vision. They're also much cheaper than eye surgery.

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Hi Mindful,
A girlfriend of mine had it 4 months ago, she is really pleased with the result, she is long sighted and says she wishes she had had it done 8 years ago.

I'd investigate into the doctor's success/failure rate before doing anything. What are the risks?

Someone I know had it done and spent approx $5000 CDN and still has had problems. Two surgeries now and she's still having issues. They think that she may have been initially been allergic to the original eye drops. The doctor had a good success rate, but alas there are those few people that just seem to have problems. She regrets having it done, but alas now its too late. They have offered to give her free glasses now

Myself, having had glasses since the age of 13, have pretty much resigned myself that its probably better to stay with the devil I know, then the devil I don't, considering that I'm not even able to wear contacts. What sight I have is precious - I'm not willing to risk making it worse.

Best thing I ever did and don't worry about the age...I was 50 when I had mine done. Mine was called Laservue..same as Lasik I believe. Cost me $3000 of which $1000 went to the Optometrist.

I was short sighted (near sighted) and needed glasses or lenses. Now all I need are reading glasses.

Would I recommend it? YES I would....but check to make sure you are suitable first. I had to have my tear ducts made smaller first.

I wouldnt have it done personally ... I've heard too many stories of eye problems afterwards.

I've been short sighted (cant see distance) since I was a child, and worn contacts since my first paycheck!

I began to get problems with dry eyes and have just switched to the newer silicon hydrogel lenses ........... and Im very impressed! Friends have commented on the fact that the pink eyes have gone, and I can see more clearly details.

Why not try these first?

One thing I have always wondered about the operation ... what happens if your prescription changes??

It is quite safe, experts would not advise you to have it done if it wasn't. Contacts are fine if one is happy with them, but they always make the pupils look very smal JMO.

I had a surgery in Russia in 1990 on my eyes (20 years ago!) for myopia, called radial keratotomy, which was performed by knife, not laser, but used the same technics to change the shape of cornea.


I was very happy with outcome because I was wearing thick glasses at my twenties and I had no problem after until today.

I am aging now and I think I start to get my long-sightedness because of age, but I was happy for 20 years for not wearing the glasses.

By the way, operation duration was only 3 min and was done under consciousness sedation. So, 400$ is too expensive for this simple LASIK procedure!

I had it done a 3-4years ago and it is really amazing...I get to wear nice sunglasses now!

However, my experience was that I could only see things clearly only from close up, like reading a printed page from no farther away from about 8 inches.
I do a lot of work where my head is close to the job at hand and this was great for me as it was like my natural vision was like a magnifying glass.
After the operation it was completely reversed. Now I need to wear glasses for anything close up. I cannot read a book I'm holding on my lap. It's annoying but liveable.
Now my vision is slowly getting to the point where I need to wear glasses again as the reading street signs is okay in sunlight...in dim light or night time I need glasses for this.

Honestly, I'd wish I had my natural vision as it was before the operation.

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so frustrating