Originally Posted by ms_bloom
Ooh, I'm interested in this as well. My prescription is -6.25 with very slight astigmatism. |
| What's been your experience with side effects such as blurry night vision? Plus, was your correction enough so that you don't have to wear additional correction? I have read that you may need a weak prescription afterwards anyway, and that you won't be able to wear contacts. My eyes are so bad that glasses make my eyes look tiny and I'm vain. I'd have to wear glasses for four weeks before the surgery which is also a factor for me. |
| I do have a reference to a surgeon interstate who is apparently fabulous and ethical too - he charges less for LASIK since he made enough to pay off his machine as he sees it as an essential service to provide. I would have to ask about the waveline technology and lifelong touchups though. |
| Originally Posted by chocodcocoa
sorry if i'm asking a very stupid question... but you actually have to focus on something and keep your eye open yourself? what if you just couldn't help it and blinked???? |
| Originally Posted by My journal entry from the day of surgery We got there, signed in, and waited. I had the husband with me, and he was responsible for holding my eye drops and all that jazz. They take you back, put several different drops in your eyes (one for dilation, i'm almost positive...), plus a couple that numb them. Then they give you the booties and hairnet, and tell you to take your valium (Btw, valium does exactly NOTHING for me...) and then you go sit down and wait for it. The most I got out of the valium was warm limbs, that's it. ANYHOO! I go in there, sit on the bed ,and they numb my eyes again, and the dr. marked my cornea. VERY surreal feeling, in that you can see him do it but not feel it. Then, I sat back, and honestly, the absolute worst worst worst part was the suction cup thing, but to be honest, that wasn't bad, it just felt like I was pressing on my eye. That's it. Before they cut the flaps, they tape your eye open and block you from blinking, which, really, you don't even notice. It doesn't hurt or anything like that. They cut the flaps on each eye first, then get all freaky on you again, and irrigate the eyes, probably numbing them some more (no complaints!!) and pull the flap back on the first eye and do it, then pull the flap back on the second eye and do it. Once both eyes are done, the doctor puts them back in place, irrigating and smoothing them with whatever eye tools he's using, then they sit you up and walk you out of the room, where the dr looks at his handiwork. I got an assload of eyedrops I need to put in, and some uber cool space goggles, and I'm going back tomorrow for my post op visit, I may be able to drive by then, since I had mine done first thing in the a.m. All in all, no pain, just momentary discomfort from the suction, and some great naps so far. I still can't see very clearly, those people who say "I walked out of the office with 20/20 vision seeing clearly" blahblahblah are liars. You can't see SHIT for the first several hours. =/ That said, thus far, it's a huge improvement since I'm not wearing corrective lenses and can already see from my chair to my monitor, which I've NEVER done before. |
