My wife got lasik a few years ago, she's a full contact fighter, kayaker, sledder, snowboarder & whatever else we are dumb enough to try. It took 2 trips to get it perfect (or close enough) but zero problems since then.
yeah, my bad, i got regular lasik, idon't know why i thought of radial kerotomy, anyway, its been virtually flawless.....
For anyone in NM (ABQ) this guy does it right, pays for a hotel thats right across the parking lot, so you can stumble over, take a sleeping pill, pass out, and do your check up next morning. (although it may be almost twice as much as some other lasik people, I wouldnt have wanted anyone but the best putting lasers near my eyes...) ColemanVision: LASIK laser eye surgery, Albuquerque, NM
I do not regret LASIK and would do it again if I had to repeat history. I did it in 98 right after Gauley Season (in November) so I didn't miss too much boating or boarding. They told me about a month of nothing, I think, so the off season worked out well.
A couple of things to keep in mind: Your eye WILL be very dry - especially if you live in the mountains of CO. I became very picky about the eye drops I used as a result. I have also become finicky about the sunglasses I wear. Also, man-made lights starburst for me, but not for everyone.
I had lasik over the winter and I really wish I had done it years ago. One of the best decisions I have ever made. It's really cool not having to run blind while the contacts swim around in my eyes after taking a wave in the face. I am seeing better than 20/20 and I love it. My night vision also improved a lot. I do get some "halos" around tail lights and stop lights, but I don't even notice it most of the time. I went to Spivak and they were great.
Good luck! Also, I wouldn't bargain shop for this. Get consults from many surgeons and find the one you are comfortable with.
Did you mean that you went from 20/100 to 20/20? I think 20/10 is actually better than 20/20. I hope you didn't get worse!
I have heard that vision corrected with surgery can never correct as well as glasses or contacts. And once you get the surgery, you can never quite get quite as good vision even with corrective lenses on top of the surgery. These comments come from amateur astronomers who are quite concerned about minute details though. Any comments there?
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I was near-sighted w/o glasses (so roadsigns, incoming sets of waves, any thing at a distance) was fuzzy to to a general shape to pretty much unseeable; so it was 20/20 only with glasses (i hope). my first vision test after lasik i was 20/10, and that adjusted over the next year to @ 20/15. 20/10 is as good as it gets (like fighter pilot status) so i am still very pleased with 20/15. the trade off with very clear distance vision is i did lose my super up close vision a bit, which the doc said would happen... i have to hold books a good foot or two away to read comfortably. of course every persons vision stigma is different, and i was told i was a perfect candidate, with a straightforward correction to be done, unlike some people, unfortunately. the less round and more football shaped ones eye is, the more it affects the light traveling through it (i think thats the basics of it) so the worse ones vision is , the more that has to be corrected by shaving cells off the cornea so there is diminishing returns on surgery.... havent used a microscope /telescope, so i couldnt tell you @ that. all i know is i can see way better now.
also, contacts conform your eyes to a different shape, so you have to stop wearing them for a minimum of two weeks prior to getting your eye 'mapped ' for lasik, or having the surgery.....
Yo, I had lasik in may 2004. Unreal. I'm 20/20 in each eye individually, but 20/13 together as of yesterday. My correction was not huge (-1.6), but I did have some astigmatism. I've had no problems except for dryness and halos at night. Both of these have gotten a lot better over time and I don't use eye drops routinely anymore. My surgeon was Karen Heuer in Denver. Get it done now or you'll be kicking yourself in the ass two years down the road when you finally do get it done. It's a must for paddlers. Oh, and the surgery corrected my vision better than contacts or glasses.
Joe
So I know there is the argument that your shouldn't bargain shop for the surgery, but what is a reasonable price. Joe what did you pay in Denver? The range from 300 or 400 all the way up to 4000 and eye is quite a range. Any ideas out there, average price for a good surgeon. Also I read a long time ago when my mom got the surgery that some doctors share lasers and they are transported to different offices every now and again, and that to make sure the machine doing your surgery had been in one office since it was built and delivered. I guess the moving of the laser machines screws up the laser and over time and many moves can be enough damage to cause poor results. That problem may be one of the past, this was 7 or 8 years ago but it still makes sense.
P, yea, I think mine was +/- 4 Gs. Graduation present. She promised 20/60 or better, otherwise she would correct it further. That also included about 10 follow up visits. I know lots of surgeons in denver use the same laser as she did. I have no idea if it had been moved around or not. My one thought is that you probably don't want your eyes in the hands of the lowest bidder, unlike space shuttles. It's sweet - you lay down and cant see a thing, then you smell your eyes burning, sit up and you can read the clock on the wall.
Joe
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