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Tangential question: How'd LASIK work out for you?
by amingilani 5y ago
Tangential question: How'd LASIK work out for you?
- silisili 5y agoLike everything else in life, I obsessed and compared pros and cons for weeks before deciding on PRK. In the end, the thought of having an 'eye flap' was disgusting enough to me to choose the older option. The surgery was super quick, and I could see amazing right away. Then it all went away. I probably slept for 2 or 3 days straight... waking only to take a pain pill and sleep again. I remember looking at the ceiling fan each day and it looking clearer and clearer before my eyes hurt and said pills. I could finally work but my eyes were super light sensitive and my resolution was trash. I was sitting in a room with no lights, sunglasses, and my laptop screen zoomed way in when I started back at work, and even then kept confusing minus for equals. In short time it healed and like most things, I forgot the bad and am completely happy. My wife got Lasik and could see perfectly a few hours later with no side effects. I guess she doesn't mind that gross eye flap I kept reading about, lol. In the end, we are both happy with our choices and would do it again in a heartbeat.
- petercooper 5y agoFor anyone who's bothered about the way the "flap" was traditionally created for Lasik (i.e. a blade – no, I wouldn't have liked this either!), there is now commonly a bladeless laser-based approach. They still have to move the flap off and on but it's a second or two in a 10 minute procedure and saves many post-op hassles of PRK.