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LASIK eye surgery. I had a lot of astigmatism and a little bit of myopia. I didn’t mind the act of wearing glasses (except for active activities) but they don’t
by matt_the_bass 8y ago
LASIK eye surgery. I had a lot of astigmatism and a little bit of myopia. I didn’t mind the act of wearing glasses (except for active activities) but they don’t correct astigmatism well. I see better now 11 years post surgery that’s i ever did before. I wished I did it 10 years earlier.
Be sure to wait until mid 20s when your eye have stopped growing/changing quickly.
Be sure to find a high end dr that has a high candidate rejection rate. If they accept you, you have a very high chance of success.
- daleco 8y agoThat's been on my TODO for a long time... How do you figure out the condidate rejection rate?
- matt_the_bass 8y agoIn the US I believe this is required to be provided by the dr. At least I had no problem finding it. They also have to provide their success rate. At the time I did it, the cost was about 5k for the high end drs with very high success rates. It was only about 0.5k for the “factory” drs. But they have a much lower success rate. I suspect the higher success rate is due to high candidate rejection rate so they have fewer patients in the queue but charge more. My dr side about 3000 procedures a year. To me that seemed like enough to not be burned out but also be in good practice. Note that the vast majority of failures means only mean that you still need to wear glasses, not something catastrophic. Also most failures are elegiable to get a second procédure at no cost once they are fully healed (about 6 months). 5 minutes after the procedure my vision was Better than before and continued to improve for about 2 months. The one side effect I had was dry eyes for about 6 months. I just needed eye drops 3-4 times a day.