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I have a pretty cut and dry rule of not putting anything that can catch fire directly on my eyeball.

• bergenty 4y ago
  People said the same thing about LASIK.
  • echelon 4y ago
    LASIK is a one and done operation performed under the careful supervision of a doctor, and it has been tried and tested hundreds of thousands of times. The probability of failure for this device is nonzero and and increases the longer you wear it. The failure modes are potentially disastrous, and there's likely no medical personnel nearby to intervene.
    • birdman3131 4y ago
      Anecdotal but lasik seriously messed with my dads eyesight for over a year. And he drove an OTR truck (at night quite a bit). Had he been aware how bad it was and that it only lasted 10 years or so he said he would have stuck to glasses.
      • LooseMarmoset 4y ago
        I had lasik in 1999. I was legally blind (uncorrected) in my left eye, and needed a pretty serious correction in my right eye. After lasik, my vision was 20/15 (left) and 20/10 (right). Now, in 2022, I still have no need of glasses, although I'd say my vision has degraded somewhat - still good enough to pass the driver exam uncorrected, however. Night vision is objectively worse after lasik. Poorer light sensitivity, and for the first year, I had halos and starbursts around night light sources, especially when my eyes were tired/dry. This improved over time, however. I'd do it all over again if I had to. I couldn't wear contacts anymore, they hurt my eyes, and I got used to navigating like a blind person when I didn't have my glasses, so lasik is a miraculous improvement.
        • ckw 4y ago
          When I looked into it a couple years ago, around 1% of procedures resulted in markedly diminished quality of life, with the most extreme cases regularly leading to the suicide of the patient, so I decided against it. Periodically I look back on the decision, and feel a great sense of relief. I count it among the best I have made.
          • kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
            Corneal flap also also mechanically weakens the eye.
        • euroderf 4y ago
          What does it do to your near-in sight though ? Can you read ingredients labels ?
          • LooseMarmoset 4y ago
            My near-in sight was absolutely fine. Nowadays, it's getting harder to read near-in, but I think that's just age - I'm in my 50's now. I need good lighting to read the tiniest stuff like the voltage output printing on the average USB wall wart, for example. Otherwise, it's still quite good with no issues, no glasses needed.
    • hinkley 4y ago
      And it really is one and done. As in, they won't do it a second time, and your eyes are likely to change again in 10-20 years. For sure you all are going to have a conversation about reading glasses when you turn 40.
      • lttlrck 4y ago
        my eye doctor told me not to bother because chances are as I get older my eyes will natural start to go long sighted, and that'll cancel out my shortsightedness. If I had LASIK I would definitely end up needing reading glasses...
        • 2143 4y ago
          Can confirm. Anecdotal. Both my parents' eyesight have actually improved significantly recently. They don't really need glasses anymore. But I can also confirm that my sister who had severe long-sightedness got her eyesight corrected with lasik. That was about 15 years ago, and there are no problems so far.
  • Sebguer 4y ago
    Yeah, and the risks of LASIK are widely under-reported!