Lasik Surgery

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by LordShiva
They don't even put you under. They squirt local anesthaesia in your eyes, and then you see this little knife cutting and pulling back a flap in your cornea, and a then bright light shining into your pupil

U forgot to mention the huge needle used to sqirt that anesthesia..... in to ur eye

[LordShiva]

I didn't have that. It was like eye drops.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

I have never done lasik surgery cataracts yes
the dr will put drops in but the will also give u versed and fentyanl before they stick a needle in ur eye to numb it

[Berzerker]

I'm thinking about it, it would be nice to go a day (or a decade) without wearing glasses.

[Gibsie]

An eye drop is kinda like a huge needle, if you think about it in the most horrifically paranoid way possible

Originally posted by ColdPhoenix
I'm guessing you went to Optical Express? There's not a huge difference in price between them, about £500, for similar procedures. Maybe I would have had as much success with one of the less expensive treatments but from reading up on the different treatments I could see that there was a greater chance of complete success with the more expensive one. It's not that much extra cash and I knew that if I was seeing halos for the rest of my life I'd be pretty pissed off in 10 years time that I could have spent a grand when I was younger to have stopped it.

As for Ultralase vs Optical Express, both very good, professional practices. I went for Ultralase because my colleagues had gone there and had great things to say about them and they had (slightly) better reviews on the review site I looked at.

Yup, dead on the mark. I was just annoyed with Ultralase for advertising the reasonable price, then insisting upon another £800 after the consultation- and that was just for the regular treatment! I'm sure Ultralase do a great job (To be honest the guy at Optical Express was a bit of an *******, left me waiting for an hour while he went to lunch), I just didn't like their way of doing business (i.e. get as much money from every customer, compared to OE's method of increase the number of customers through high-street availability and competitive prices). I'm sure you made the right choice going for Wavefront for yourself though, but if someone could only afford the basic treatment, it's still a great choice