LASIK

its way way way way way less than 2% dude
It lasts like 2 minutes dude. General anesthesia costs several grand. Freak out all you want your dumbass wont even know whats happening until its over

Just checked. The big clinic here in Switzerland 100% of the surgeons dont wear glasses. cant say anything about contacts but I think you are a retard

Questions people rarely ask during laser eye consultation.

What is the generation of the laser eye surgery machine at your practice.

You be surprised to find out the eye surgeon is still paying off the loan for a first generation laser eye machine while the manufacturer has already released the 4th or 5th generation laser eye machine with much needed improvements and far more accuracy.

Shame the manufacturer doesn't provide a location map tool that lets people view on like Google Maps, which eye surgeon has the latest laser eye surgery machine or not.

>100% of all surgeons have bad eyes
This is the kind of poster you're going to take advice from Jow Forums think about it

I want to do it but I'm only 20 years old. They say you have to/should be 25. Because usually your eyesight changes until around that age and you can only perform the surgery once. Alternatively you can prove that your eyesight is stable with regular checks before the surgery.

Has anyone done the surgery before the age of 25? Contact lenses are a pain in the ass so I kinda wanna do it, but I don't want my eyesight to change after the surgery and then have to wear contacts the rest of my life.

Absolutely worth it. Went from lifetime glasses/contacts wearer to 20-20+ vision

I'm thinking about it but then when I'm older I won't be able to see right up close. If I don't do surgery that won't happen.

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Which country?

Will they refuse to do lasik if you can't prove your prescription has been stable for a year? I had an eye exam in November. Before that my last exam was eight years ago. The prescription changed some over the eight years but not a huge amount. Do I have to wait until November to ensure a year of stability in my prescription?

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Bullshit you have +2000£ fuck around money unless neet IT and live with parents

>tfw want lasik but hate how I look without glasses, and my prescription is so bad I have the super chunky lenses
Would it be weird to get it done and wear non-prescription glasses after?

will lasik fix my misaligned and lazy eye? :(

I'm a bit afraid of the doctor having a psychotic break and hammering a pencil through my brain with his phone or something. Has that ever happened?

100% worth it. completely painless and very quick. I was in the clinic for an hour and 50 min of that time was waiting for the doc to be ready.

side note that's not important but kind of interesting to think about: my vision was still poor in my dreams for a couple years after the procedure. what's also funny is that I'd even notice that fact in my dreams. I'd think, "what the fuck did I pay 4 grand for? I can't see SHIT" then I'd wake up and laugh. doesn't happen anymore though. think my subconscious has fully acknowledged that I can see now.

That's some damn good advice.

It's very rare. I wouldn't worry about it.

get a load of this fucking poorfag

This is based. No dry eyes or anything either. Man up OP

I'm saving money for it, but my eyesight is extremely fucked. -8 on both eyes.

Best investment ever. 10 years later and I still see perfect. No need for eye doctors anymore. You will be sore after surgery. Take sleeping pills and sleep it
Off. It’s managable.

best thing i ever did, now i dont have to put my specs on in the morning before playing video games all day

Is it true that I should wait another 4-5 year before the surgery (because of my young age)? I'm missing -6 on both eyes and I'm 19 years old.

No.

I've got astigmatic eyes and am suitable for surgery however eyes seem like the most important sense to me and so I've got a zero risk policy for them

i would easily do nose/ear equivalents to this but it's a no for eyes

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I got PRK about a year ago, which is similar to lasik but has a bit different pros and cons (including more pain). It's almost painless, was a bit uncomfortable for a while and the most pain I had was similar to when you're tired and your eyes burn when you close them. If you can afford it I would say it's well worth for a nonessential surgery.

You are away but these days it is all laser, there is no blade. They do touch your eye to remove the protective layer of cells before the laser starts but its after numbing drops so it feels weird but not painful.

Your eyes have to be stable for about a year before most docs will do it. This may not happen until youre 25 but if you get an eye exam now and one a year from now and it's the same you're prob good.

tHIs do you really want to risk permanent dry eye?

You're just dumb as fuck. The guy that did mine got his done at his own clinic.

You're awake and screaming the whole time. Okay not screaming but yeah I had the same thing with putting stuff in my eyes which is why I never wore contacts. I said it was scary as fuck but it's worth it. It's over quickly too.

There's a chance you'll need reading glasses when you're older anyway. If you can't drive without glasses or contacts, it's worthwhile getting corrective eye surgery.

Wait until they come back from vacation. That's what I did. Don't brag about your golf game though or they'll doodle on your corneas. Any time you go to the eye doctor, the nurses and doctors will laugh at you because there's dickbutt and trogdor scribbled in your eyeballs.

Got lasik, can confirm no pain at all during the treatment. Eyes get dry in super dusty environments so moisturizing drops are used maybe once every other week at work. Overall would do again if i went back in time.

I should've become a doctor. That sounds amazing.

>lasik in my city cost a 600$ at average
>I'm just as poor as my country and do not have this amount

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sell stuff. take another job. start a gofundme or patreon.

Holy shit do it. It's the best thing ever. I had it done a year ago I wish I did it 5 years ago. DO IT!!!!!

Start saving, man. I've been saving for a year and blew it all on a new apartment's security deposit. Now I gotta start all over.

>CHF...
THat's like lower middle class in Switzerland my dude. Maybe if your country wasn't dog shit nigger tier island trash you'd be less poor?????

Sorry that was rude of me. I didn't mean to be so aggressive. But in my defense. The british are the niggers/africa of europe.

He's a retard but remember Switzerland is extremely expensive to live in

Why would I need to remember how much it costs to live in my own country? Salaries here for Swiss who have masters leave you with around 2-3k a month after expenses/taxes as basically a babies first job salary

They fucked up my lasik surgery. My left is still blurry. I’d still do it again, lol

Lol

I got PRK done three weeks ago. I'm still taking the anti inflammatory drops in the affected eye, but for the most part the recovery is over. The ophthalmologist asked me to consider LASIK instead, but the corneal flap was a dealbreaker.

Also when the procedure was actually happening he said I didn't need Xanax, which was interesting. Just sitting under a laser and weird scalpel thing with nothing to take the edge off but clenching my fists and jaw.

I recommend it to just about anyone. It brought my bad eye up from 20/200 to 20/25.

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Oh speaking of the drops, see if your insurance would cover some of the cost. Insurance doesn't cover the procedure itself, but the drops before insurance are like 250 dollars per refill, but mine got it down to 20.

I got prk 5 years ago, still better then 20/20 in both eyes. Recovery on prk sucks

>are you sure you want to do PRK? it feels like you have gravel in your eyes for about three days afterward

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About right, sucked for a few days post OP. My friend yes were so light sensitive I couldn't look at my cellphone even with it on its lowest might setting. Smoked a ton of weed and played alot of books on tape

Better than having a permanent flap in your eye, i'd say.

That's what I told him, and he started rattling off statistics on how rare catastrophic dislocations are. I just told him I box a lot and it's a risk factor.

He's the best guy in the region but he was getting awfully pushy about it.

LASIK seems literally worse in every way, apart from recovery time.
I don't get why they would push for it.

They get more money from it I guess.

I'm gonna do PRK soon. Fuck glasses.

There's a lower infection risk because the exposed area is a lot smaller, so I think the overall incidence of Bad Shit is about the same in the end.

Keep in mind, though, that the vast majority of people who go for laser eye surgery are just normal office working obese men, so the lack of pain and fast return to the cubicle is a strong selling point. If you're young, have a free week to take off work/school/spring break, and can stomach some potentially serious pain for a couple days, I'd say PRK is the right bet, though.

What about ICL?

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PRK can't handle anything above -5 tho.

does lasik work if you have -10?

does it increase the likelihood of glaucoma?

They'll need to measure your cornea thiccness, but it's probably a no go, sorry mate.

>my job is dependant on my eyes
>Laser eye surgery literally not allowed ever or I'll be fired
What do we know you don't? Long run, glasses or contacts are probably the best for vision over whole life with least risk of deterioration.

Just wait, why would you take the risk?
How bad is your eyesight anyway? If contacts bother you, just don't wear them if you don't need to? My left eye is fine, only my right eye is shit. I only wear glasses when I'm in front of a screen, shooting or driving for long distance, I don't need to wear them in my daily life. My vision hasn't changed at all.

Had it done at 19, eyes still perfect ~2 years later, worth every penny

What job, my man?

Isn't the relex version supposed to be the superior version anyways?

ATCO

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