Lasik Surgery

Naethyn · Post by **Naethyn** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:02 pm

I've worn contacts and glasses for the last 8 years. A friend's father recently got Lasik Surgery done on one of his eyes. I am considering getting it done. I was just wondering if anyone here has gotten it done or knows any info about it.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:05 pm

I know my mom and stepdad are getting it done in the next few months, they've talked to their eye doctor about it. They are really suggesting I get it too. He says that the younger you get it done, the better and that it has like a 99.9% success rate to get 20/20 vision as long as you don't have eye problems. For how cheap it is and how much it changes your life I'm seriously thinking about doing it also.

ClakarEQ · Post by **ClakarEQ** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:13 pm

Not sure what the diff is between lasik and RK (or perhaps they're the same just different names, don't feel like checking).

My wife got RK several years back (10 years) , as did her brother, her mom, and a couple cousins. After having to wear glasses and contacts since she was 8, she was overjoyed after the surgery, as was the brother, mom-in-law, etc.

One of the biggest things she would say is being able to wake up and actually see, it was like a new world. That and should could see signs at night where before signs and such were difficult to see even with the glasses, especially if it was raining and such.

I've only heard one rumor that iirc snopes proved it false was some guy having spider like results (e.g. many of the same image being seen, like a fly or something).

She had it done in Windsor by the guy that invented the procedure and at the time, came with a life-time guarantee so if she needed a correction, she could go back and get it done for free.

Back then it wasn't so cheap, I think it was just over 5k USD for both eyes. To her, she would have paid more as it was worth it.

EDIT
it was Dr. Tafor(sp) or some shit.

kaharthemad · Post by **kaharthemad** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:14 pm

i am too. Mar needs a different surgery. It is something they do for cataracts, however they now do it for vision adjustments. They slit the cornea and insert a new lens permanently. They us this when the retina is too thin for lasik.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:18 pm

Old lady Martrae has cataracts?

Post by **Tossica** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:19 pm

A guy I used to work with had it done and it was a nightmare. He had to go back several times and finally ended up in a lawsuit with the place that did it. He won a lot of money IIRC.

That's the only negative result I have heard personally though. Everyone else I have talked to says they love the results.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:21 pm

My dad had a ton of problems.

ClakarEQ · Post by **ClakarEQ** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:24 pm

One thing I remember the wife mentioning that this Dr Taphor fellow brought up is that lots of Dr's jumped on the bandwagon to become qualified but it is not their specialty. He made some comment about the machine used for the surgey and if the Dr owns it vs using a rented one. Kind of impliing, you are either in full time (own the hardware) or part time (lease the hardware), and that you don't want a part time Dr cutting into your eyeball LOL

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:37 pm

My aunt had it done in one eye a long time ago. She's pleased.
I would get it done, but I am way too squeemish about someone pulling my eyeball out some and doing junk to it. I squirm like hell at the eye doctor during that air puff test.
But I would get the laser procedure, not the one where they slice the eye.

kaharthemad · Post by **kaharthemad** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:39 pm

Zanchief wrote:Old lady Martrae has cataracts?

no but she does have a thin retinal wall so she cant get lasik done.

However a surgery Developed For cataract paitents would be used.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:46 pm

Around here it's $999 per eye.

Post by **Martrae** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:48 pm

Yeah, mine would still cost over 6k.

Haylo · Post by **Haylo** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:20 am

I've been thinking of getting this done but I have astigmatism in both eyes. I haven't done any in depth research but I know it does cause the cost to go up. I have a lot of problems with my contacts blurring and plus allergies and having to deal with that as well so i'm really thinking that in the long term it will be worth it.

brinstar · Post by **brinstar** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:54 am

i want this ;\

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:56 pm

I'm thinking of getting it done too, would be real interested to hear more people's experiences with it. :o

Burgy99 · Post by **Burgy99** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:08 pm

Yamori wrote:I'm thinking of getting it done too, would be real interested to hear more people's experiences with it. :o

Yea. I heard on the radio the other day that some company was doing it as low as 299 per eye. Now thats a little too good to be true, but here in NY doctors will send you to Canada where they've been doing it for longer than the US has, and I think thats somewhere around 500 per eye these days.

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:46 am

"Discount eye surgery" makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. XD

Jennay · Post by **Jennay** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:56 am

The eye puffer thing they do at the eye doctor freaks me out enough, I will not let a scapal or laser near my eyeballs.

Trielelvan · Post by **Trielelvan** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:09 am

Burgy99 wrote:
Yamori wrote:I'm thinking of getting it done too, would be real interested to hear more people's experiences with it. :o

Yea. I heard on the radio the other day that some company was doing it as low as 299 per eye. Now thats a little too good to be true, but here in NY doctors will send you to Canada where they've been doing it for longer than the US has, and I think thats somewhere around 500 per eye these days.

Actually, there are a couple of clinics here in Las Vegas that advertise regularly as low as $187.00 ($157? I forget) per eye, so it's completely possible to have the procedure done for that low. I will jot down the info and telephone # next time I see the advertisement, if anyone is interested.

Azlana · Post by **Azlana** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:56 am

I did it and it was good. It's been about 6 or 7 years, and my eyesight is slowly deteriorating again. I need to wear glasses at night because of the halo's I get around lights..but I think the tech has improved since they did mine so as to minimize that anyway. The only downside is that it smells like burning hair when they're using the laser on your eye...which......is pretty freaky, honestly.

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:19 pm

My mother told me I should never look into lasers.