Laser eye surgery

[Christmas]

Laser eye surgery looks cool, calm and clean on the adverts you see on TV, but the actual procedure isn't pretty at all.

So this is the kind of video that make you play with yourself.

[Old Manus]

Only if they're your eyes, sweetheart

[Madame Adequate]

smurf laser surgery, I'm just going to get my some replacement eyes.

Edit: Oh my god that video is horrendous. After he sticks the flap back he needs to sweep down but he can't oh god it's bugging my OCD so bad

[Momiji]

oh my smurfing god after watching that I will happily wear glasses forever

[Shiny]

I wanted to get it because of the convenience of having a laser eye surgery place close by and also just so I have the option of wearing glasses for fashion rather than necessity. But I have this thing about touching my eye. I don't like touching my eye -- which is why I don't wear contacts, and I don't like other people touching them either so I don't see how the heck I would ever be able to get laser eye surgery. Even so, I have heard horror stories about it. I think I would only do it if I had money to pay for the one celebrities have used.

EDIT: Also your computer screen should have anti-glare if you wear glasses. You should never buy monitors or laptops without it. It may also be helpful to wear anti-glare glasses. These work well too if you take pictures and wanna keep your glasses on.

[Momiji]

I guess I'm a little biased, since I love my glasses.

Even if my vision were to suddenly correct, I think I'd probably still wear them, just pop the lenses out or something

[Renmiri]

I've had it 15 years ago, my mom has had it 18 years ago. I had always been careless with contacts and got my eyes scratched once by using them for way too long. And I was worse with glasses, losing them and getting them scratched often. So I wanted a way to see better, w/o the hassle of contacts or the unflattering (to me) style of glasses.

I was awake during the surgery and didn't feel a thing. But having a bright light aimed at your eye (which you can't close because the doc puts some thingie holding your eyelids) and the doctor poking at it is a bit nerve wracking.

The day after I had it the doctor took of the bandage and I could see much better than with contacts or glasses. Our eyes see all 360 degrees, while contacts and glasses only make "clear" the stuff in front of you with some limited lateral vision. Was amazing.

But it hurt like having a huge grain of sand in your eye that you can't get off. Ouch! Took some sleeping pills and woke up the next day much better. After 3 days the pain was gone but the sensitivity to light lingered for a year, not a month. Obviously was much worse in the first month but even a year after coming out of the house to a bright day was blinding.

Another funny thing is that you don't see well all the time, in the first couple of months. Your eye muscles are so used to squint that they still contract like you need to squint to see.. except now you don't and everything gets out of focus. Usually that happened in the morning and I spent 10-20 minutes seeing all blurry, then slowly have all things coming into focus.

Both my mom and I can see very well in the distance until today but also got worse closeup vision. Not to read books, closer stuff. I have a much harder time putting a thread in a needle than I had before surgery and it has gotten worse over the years. But then us old geezers get to need reading glasses eventually (my mom does) so who can say it was the surgery ?

Also, if you have this surgery you can not summit the Everest The low pressure there wreaks havoc with your muscles and retina and your eyes get very blurry. Astronauts would probably have some weird effects too, on low grav settings. So if you dream of doing those things, stick to glasses.

Other than that, it has been wonderful to see all things at all angles and side vision, without needing any kind of hassle with stuff I'm bound to lose or forget to clean. And you can lose your eye to badly cared for contact lenses so to me the risk was well worth it.

[Inferno]

My left eye has a 20/20 vision, but my right eye has a -5.5 rate of hyperopia, and they said the technology wasn't advanced enough to perform such a surgery

[boris no no]

I would love to have eye surgery (seriously, everytime someone says laser eye surgery it makes me think their either putting lasers in your eyes, or operating with lasers from their eyes...) but my eyes are still changing (I'm 25! ) so got to wait.
I'm like -8 in each eye... suuuucks

[Loony BoB]

I've had it 15 years ago, my mom has had it 18 years ago. I had always been careless with contacts and got my eyes scratched once by using them for way too long. And I was worse with glasses, losing them and getting them scratched often. So I wanted a way to see better, w/o the hassle of contacts or the unflattering (to me) style of glasses.

I was awake during the surgery and didn't feel a thing. But having a bright light aimed at your eye (which you can't close because the doc puts some thingie holding your eyelids) and the doctor poking at it is a bit nerve wracking.

The day after I had it the doctor took of the bandage and I could see much better than with contacts or glasses. Our eyes see all 360 degrees, while contacts and glasses only make "clear" the stuff in front of you with some limited lateral vision. Was amazing.

But it hurt like having a huge grain of sand in your eye that you can't get off. Ouch! Took some sleeping pills and woke up the next day much better. After 3 days the pain was gone but the sensitivity to light lingered for a year, not a month. Obviously was much worse in the first month but even a year after coming out of the house to a bright day was blinding.

Another funny thing is that you don't see well all the time, in the first couple of months. Your eye muscles are so used to squint that they still contract like you need to squint to see.. except now you don't and everything gets out of focus. Usually that happened in the morning and I spent 10-20 minutes seeing all blurry, then slowly have all things coming into focus.

Both my mom and I can see very well in the distance until today but also got worse closeup vision. Not to read books, closer stuff. I have a much harder time putting a thread in a needle than I had before surgery and it has gotten worse over the years. But then us old geezers get to need reading glasses eventually (my mom does) so who can say it was the surgery ?

Also, if you have this surgery you can not summit the Everest The low pressure there wreaks havoc with your muscles and retina and your eyes get very blurry. Astronauts would probably have some weird effects too, on low grav settings. So if you dream of doing those things, stick to glasses.

Other than that, it has been wonderful to see all things at all angles and side vision, without needing any kind of hassle with stuff I'm bound to lose or forget to clean. And you can lose your eye to badly cared for contact lenses so to me the risk was well worth it.

It should be noted that things have improved a lot over the past 15 years. My mum got her eye surgery done about ten years ago, and she had a similar experience to yourself. However, the guy who sits opposite me at work got his eye surgery done one day and drove home something like two hours later - he just couldn't stare at bright lights on the day, but otherwise was fine. Seriously! So crazy, driving home afterwards. Couldn't believe it's gone that far. Of course, there are a few different procedures, so yeah.

[Shorty]

I'd be too terrified to get laser eye surgery. Aside from being scared from it, I've heard horror stories - my mom's friend had it done and her left eye's vision was blurred and worse to see out of when she was done, and they weren't able to correct it for a couple of months.

It just does not seem appealing. And I really love glasses - they're cute. I'll stick with my tainted eyes.

[Peegee]

I've had it 15 years ago, my mom has had it 18 years ago. I had always been careless with contacts and got my eyes scratched once by using them for way too long. And I was worse with glasses, losing them and getting them scratched often. So I wanted a way to see better, w/o the hassle of contacts or the unflattering (to me) style of glasses.

I was awake during the surgery and didn't feel a thing. But having a bright light aimed at your eye (which you can't close because the doc puts some thingie holding your eyelids) and the doctor poking at it is a bit nerve wracking.

The day after I had it the doctor took of the bandage and I could see much better than with contacts or glasses. Our eyes see all 360 degrees, while contacts and glasses only make "clear" the stuff in front of you with some limited lateral vision. Was amazing.

But it hurt like having a huge grain of sand in your eye that you can't get off. Ouch! Took some sleeping pills and woke up the next day much better. After 3 days the pain was gone but the sensitivity to light lingered for a year, not a month. Obviously was much worse in the first month but even a year after coming out of the house to a bright day was blinding.

Another funny thing is that you don't see well all the time, in the first couple of months. Your eye muscles are so used to squint that they still contract like you need to squint to see.. except now you don't and everything gets out of focus. Usually that happened in the morning and I spent 10-20 minutes seeing all blurry, then slowly have all things coming into focus.

Both my mom and I can see very well in the distance until today but also got worse closeup vision. Not to read books, closer stuff. I have a much harder time putting a thread in a needle than I had before surgery and it has gotten worse over the years. But then us old geezers get to need reading glasses eventually (my mom does) so who can say it was the surgery ?

Also, if you have this surgery you can not summit the Everest The low pressure there wreaks havoc with your muscles and retina and your eyes get very blurry. Astronauts would probably have some weird effects too, on low grav settings. So if you dream of doing those things, stick to glasses.

Other than that, it has been wonderful to see all things at all angles and side vision, without needing any kind of hassle with stuff I'm bound to lose or forget to clean. And you can lose your eye to badly cared for contact lenses so to me the risk was well worth it.

It should be noted that things have improved a lot over the past 15 years. My mum got her eye surgery done about ten years ago, and she had a similar experience to yourself. However, the guy who sits opposite me at work got his eye surgery done one day and drove home something like two hours later - he just couldn't stare at bright lights on the day, but otherwise was fine. Seriously! So crazy, driving home afterwards. Couldn't believe it's gone that far. Of course, there are a few different procedures, so yeah.

I'm at work so i can't youtubesterspace, but is there any contact with the eye during the surgery? Is it strictly laser pew pew or do they have to fiddle with the eye? Can they put me in a comatose state so I don't panic like a lunatic?

[Loony BoB]

That depends on procedure used.

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[Levian]

There's no way I'm having this surgery until it actually gives you laser eyes.

[Christmas]

You mean X-ray vision so that you can peep through clothes.