Lasik

[Atrain]

I have an opportunity to have Lasik eye surgery for a very inexpensive rate. Have any of you had it? How was the experience and how were your results?

[Wulf202]

the day after i had 20/10 vision. I regressed over 3 months to where i had to have a second surgery which was covered under the plan they gave me. After the second surgery i had 20/15 vision.

My original perscription was -5 and -5.5.

[Atrain]

Has it stayed at 20/15?

[Wulf202]

right up until my head injury in march of 06.

Now it's 20/20

It sucks having to re-learn how to use your depth perception.

[Driftwood]

I have an opportunity to have Lasik eye surgery for a very inexpensive rate. Have any of you had it? How was the experience and how were your results?

If I may, there is quite a bit of alternative info out there that addresses the dangers of Lasik surgery.

Check these out for starters:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Lk_xD_0wPg

http://www.mercola.com/2005/jun/7/lasik.htm

[HunterCO]

I have never had it done but I will say this my mother who has needed eye correction since childhood had it done a few months ago. She no longer needs eye correction and it went great. My hunting partener his wife had coke bottle glasses she was legally blind with out her glasses. She is 20/20 with no glasses I still can not get used to seeing her with out her coke bottle glasses.

I think it boils down to one thing a good doctor that knows what he is doing.

[robsterclaw]

Never having it done, I would imagine your eye sight would be too important to have done cheaply unless it was a very fine doc.

[Delphi]

I have bunches of friends that have had lasik...

almost all have had 20/20 the rest have had better than 20/20 from what i know. That mercola guy is trying to sell you a product that exersizes your eyes.... thats why he is against lasik. I think he's biased.

Anyways if i could afford it i would do it. If you have found a good doc thats willing to do it cheap, i'd say jump on the oppertunity

[Tim K]

My wife and I both had it done 5 or 6 years ago. At that time, my wife's eyes were the worst they'd ever worked on at the Wright Eye Center. After the surgery and to date she has had 20/20 vision.

My eyes were not so bad, and I was corrected to 20/10 in one and 20/15 in the other. I haven't checked recently, but I'd estimate that I'm still 20/20 or better.

I would recommend the procedure without reservation, and the Wright Eye Center especially. Before doing our eyes, Dr. Wright replaced both lenses in my Dad's eyes because he had cataracts. Get this, he did it for free because my parents had fallen on hard times. Good doctor, outstanding human being.

[Atrain]

The place I will be going is the Beyer Laser Center. He is one of the people that founded the Lasik procedure and the most experienced Lasik guy in the state.