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Yes! Many people seem to miss this for whatever reason. There is no risk-free choice if you are unlucky enough to have poor eyesight. Personal anecdote: I have
by jsjohns2 10y ago
Yes! Many people seem to miss this for whatever reason. There is no risk-free choice if you are unlucky enough to have poor eyesight.
Personal anecdote: I have a retinal scar from an eye infection that was a direct result of wearing contacts. The $2K I spent on LASIK in my early twenties was the best money I've ever spent.
I did a good amount of research and came to the conclusion that the expected value of LASIK outweighed that of contacts over a lifetime. To simplify things a bit, you are trading a one-time risk of a serious post-surgery complication for a risk of a contact-caused eye infection spread out over the remaining years of your life.
- glandium 10y ago> There is no risk-free choice if you are unlucky enough to have poor eyesight. What's the risk with glasses? Losing/breaking them?
- mquander 10y agoI was evaluated for wavefront LASIK at the Stanford Eye Laser Center and I asked the doctor there specifically about this, because like you I wondered whether LASIK would be lower-risk than wearing contacts for the rest of my life. He said that conditioned on the fact that I had already worn contacts continually for several years without any problems, it probably wasn't true that continuing to wear contacts was a higher risk than LASIK. (I might have gotten LASIK anyway, but it turned out that I have unusually large pupils, which ups the likelihood of bad side effects.)