Count me in for this response. Best Money Ever SpentOriginally Posted by jscwerve
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Count me in for this response. Best Money Ever Spent
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I had PRK done back in 1999 and had to have a free touch up in 2005, but it was the best money I've ever spent. I did have some eye dryness issues with the first surgery, but the "enhanced" surgery I later did, fixed whatever the issue was. It also expanded the surgical area so I didn't have the halo effect from the first surgery. Very happy with mine. I did lose some night vision, but it was a fair trade to not have to deal with contacts or glasses. Now, with age, I am getting to the point where I'm going to need 'old man glasses' for reading and whatnot, but I hear they are developing a surgical technique to fix that as well.
In a nutshell, if you are a good candidate for it, do it!
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That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
ok, I'm no longer on the fence. I'll utilize my flexible spending account in 2014 to get lasik. I already know I'm a good candidate because my optometrist has asked me why I haven't done it yet for the last 2 years. I just haven't really hated my contacts that much and figure the price would keep coming down...
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Sawin - Feedback thread.
That's the exact same reason I haven't done it yet either. Just keep pushing it back. I want it even more now after reading through the responses.
My feedback: http://www.ar-15.co/threads/92485-TheWeeze
While mine was free, and I had PRK done instead. I would definately pay the amounts that these folks are talking about for it. I keep trying to convince the little lady to get it done, but she is chicken.
I probably would have gone the Lasik route (recovery time) if I would have paid for it simply because I was effectively blind for about a week, and could not look at a computer for a month.
Again, best money I've ever spent. I did mine in MN as I'm originally from there, am single (nobody to drive me home here), and had already done all the research on the doc. Plus he charges a flat rate of $995/eye so about $2K all said and done. Unless you considder the airline miles I cashed in for the flight home to do it.
In 1987 I flew from Rome, Italy, to Moscow, Russia to get an IOL (intra-ocular implant).
I basically have been living for the last 26 yers with lenses implanted in my eyes.
So far so good...
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
I went with PRK over Lasik because I read more reports of Lasik people having dry eyes, as well as reports that if you're in some kind of traumatic head injury situation, the flap created by the lasik can come dislodged. I had my PRK done before having to head back overseas for a couple more contracts, so I thought that the longer recovery time was a good tradeoff for having my eyes be more solid in general. YMMV.
I heard the exact same thing about the flap never fully or taking years and years and years to fully heal back on there. I actually have noticed a significant increase in my dry eye symptoms with my PRK than before. I just carry drops in my EDC in those little vials, love em, no burn at all.
Got mine done at Spivack Vision. I know a bunch of people that had it done there before I got it done, and we all have to carry a medical, so we wanted/need someone great! I would do it again in a heartbeat, best money you can spend IMO.
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