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  • #1

    Lasik Surgery

    Has anyone here had Lasik Eye Surgery? My girlfriend is going for it, but she's unsure how safe it is, what are the long term implications, etc.

    Anyone recommend it? What is the process exactly?

    Yes I will do some reading elsewhere, I just want some personal opinions too.
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  • #2
    It was really, really popular in the Philippines (because it was really cheap, and because it was all done by machines -- so you didn't have to count of the competence of the Filipinos), and I had lots of friends who had it there. Most folks swore by it, though some complained that it left them seeing rainbow-like halos when they looked at lights. The other thing I remember hearing is that it was really only worth doing if your eyesight defect was slight; the worse your eyesight, the less likely lasik was to improve it in a lasting fashion.
    "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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    • #3
      I had it done about 5 weeks ago. My eyesight was pretty terrible before but is now better than 20/20, it was even better than 20/20 in my check-up 24 hours after the procedure.

      They used one laser to cut my cornea, then pulled the cornea back and used another laser to correct the lens. Each eye took about 15 mins.

      My sister and three work colleagues have had it done as well and they are all happy they did. One of the lads from work felt that his eyes were a bit dry for a few weeks after but it wasn't a problem.

      I was told that my eyesight shouldn't get worse until I'm in my 50s or so when I'll probably need reading glasses (nothing can be done about that), the place I got it done offers a lifetime guarantee anyway so they'll redo it for free if my eyes degenerate.

      She should definitely go for it, one of the best decisions I've ever made, there are so many little things that happen every day where it makes a difference!! Very liberating!

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      • #4
        Hmmm. better than 20/20 vision would suit my goal of becoming a super-man. Mind if I ask where you got it down Cold Phoenix and how much it cost?
        Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
        -Richard Dawkins

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        • #5
          *twitch* No one is shooting lasers in my eyes. Gah! I'll live with glasses.
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          • #6
            Is there an option to be able to shoot lasers *from* my eyes? I'd so totally sign up for that as well
            Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
            -Richard Dawkins

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            • #7
              They have procedures now that don't require any cutting.
              "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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              • #8
                Same as ColdPhoenix, except it was a couple of years ago and they vut open my cornea with a scalpel. It's a fun feeling!

                Also: if you're unsure how safe something is and what the longterm implications are etc. then you should be considering it, not going for it. It's good that you're asking us geeks about it though.

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                • #9
                  I got it done at Ultralase (Tottenham Court Road, London). It cost me £3,000 (even after a 20% discount) because I went for the most expensive options, didn't want to skimp when it came to my eyes.

                  Most people's eyes continually improve for 3 days after the treatment, when I heard that and knew that I'd better than 20/20 after 24 hours I was hoping for superman vision! Didn't work out that way unfortunately, x-ray vision would have helped with my poker playing too!!

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                  • #10
                    I had it done two winters ago. I went from moderate myopia and significant astigmatism to perfect vision. It cost me like $800.
                    THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                    AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                    AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                    DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                    • #11
                      My sister had hers done a year ago or so. She's very happy with results. It was cheap, but I can't recall the price. LS' $800 sounds about right.
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #12
                        I did it in India, BTW. It was teh "Wave Front" type of Lasik, or something.
                        THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                        AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                        AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                        DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                        • #13
                          Yeah, I got wavefront too. Works nicely doesn't it!!

                          I'm not surprised that it's cheaper in India than central London. In hindsight it may have been better to have spent the difference on flights and accomodation and gone over there for the treatment. Bit of a trek for the aftercare though!!

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                          • #14
                            I got it done 8.5 years ago. Everything is still good. I used to have really bad eyes and they got me to 20/20. I do have some problems at night and with bright lights, but it was the best thing I have ever done!
                            Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.

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                            • #15
                              Wavefront is supposed to reduce the chances of halos around lights at night, that's how they sold it to me at least.

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