lasik surgery

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This may be off topic here, but I just got lasik surgery on my eyes after wearing contacts or glasses for 28 years. Best move I ever made and money I ever spent (or borrowed in my case). I was nearsighted and had stigmatism. It took 15 minutes per eye and was practically painless. I went home and slept for 2 hours and was driving an hour after that. Just had my eyes checked Saturday and I have 20/15 vision (better than perfect). It cost $2,000 per eye, but I know you can get it cheaper. Worth every cent!

So why are you telling US!?!? I am in a high risk group for lasik complications:

1. Can't stand still for it.
2. Have astigmatism.
3. Am FARSIGHTED!

Congrats!! I'm really glad the results turned out so well for you. My cousin, after wearing glasses nearly his whole life, also had the lasik procedure done and he is as thrilled with the results as you are. I think it's great they can offer this.

I want to get that done.

Why am I telling you? Because getting lasik has been such a wonderful experience and thing I could do for myself after feeling I was the ugliest of the ugly for being diagnosed with Asperger's this summer. It was a good thing to do for myself on my birthday.

As we say in New Zealand:

GOOD ON YOU!!

15 minutes for each eye? No way I could have stood that...

Mine took about about a minute each in surgery and the sensory overload made me pass out on the second eye. It was painless, but certainly not sensationless.

But anyway, I tend to agree with it being worth it. I have close to 20/20 vision now. I used to have glasses but got tired of using them and I just didn't think I looked good with them. It's great to not have to worry about eyeglasses and loosing them, scratching them and what not.

Just don't forget to keep moisturizing your eyes hourly afterwards. For the first couple of weeks after that is very important. I made the mistake of doing that only when my eyes felt dry which made me start to loose vision on my second week. I went back on eye drops heavily and came out fine after that.

I had it done last year, extremely glad I did. I got discounts because I went to the same doc my sister used, and my dad had looked into it too. So I got both eyes for about $2200.
Refferals sometimes earn you discounts, worth checking into if you're considering it.

I'm happy for you, don't get me wrong. When I see such a flowery statement, that seems to be just an ad, I have to speak up. 6 years ago, it seemed like ALL my coworkers were doing it. ONE bragged about how he had like 20/20 vision, and went AGAIN to try to improve it. I went to two successful doctors, who told me the truth. LUCKILY, they HAVE improved things so flinching or astigmatism might not be as much of a problem, but far sightedness certainly is. Frankly, I am surprised autistics can handle this. *I* certainly couldn't. I guess that is a good thing, because the complications can be bad.

To be honest, I am autistic so I thought what did I have to lose.

I want LASIK surgery too, but I have very dry eyes so I'm not sure if the surgery will work. ):

I do too. I expected to be turned down during the exam, but I wasn't. My eyes are still pretty dry, but SO much more comfortable without contacts welding themselves to them all the time.
(If you've ever had contacts and really dry eyes, you know what I mean. Ouch.)
Usually they offer a free consultation, at least look into it.

I'd like to have the results of the surgery.
I don't want to have the surgery.
I just want the results of the surgery.

I would also like the results, but am awfully unsure about burning away part of the eye, would never want to part with that much money, and my uncle, an optometrist advises against it/

I know several people that had it done and are thrilled with it, and a few people that had it done and it caused some permanent problems that cannot be corrected fully with glasses.

A couple who are friends of ours looked into it, and they said that if you go to a conference of eye doctors, most of them are wearing glasses. But he went through with LASIK anyway, because he was in a job where eyesight was critical, and he was almost killed once when his glasses fogged up. I am sworn to not tell anyone what he does for a living, or anything about the circumstances that almost got him killed.

Best advice if you are set on this procedure - find a really good doctor with lots of experience. Let the doc make mistakes on someone else. I realize this strategy can't work for everyone, but it can work for you!

Just to let you guys know I just spent the week at the Dominican Republic. Gorgeous place, but it was even more gorgeous to see with perfect vision. It was like I was living a dream. I could see people without some glare, dirt, or contact getting in the way. I applied the antibiodics on schedule and I wore goggles when in the water. What a dream.