w00t! 20/20 Vision!!!! :D

Post by **Diablo0** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:31 pm

I've been wanting to have LASIK for a good while now so yesterday I finally did it. Just got back from my follow-up visit to make sure everything looks good and I'm sitting at 20/20 vision one day after surgery and they said it may get a little better as it heals

For the first time since I was probably 10 years old in 5th grade, I can see well without wearing glasses.

Some of the best money I've ever spent, well... am spending since I financed it lol.

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:41 pm

how was the procedure? final cost? initial pain?

i always wanted this done... i have TERRIBLE eyesight... -4.5 in my left and -5.5 in my right.

Post by **Canada** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:45 pm

w00t!

Nice Jason, I am sure it'll be nice to not have to drag your glasses everywhere. Night driving should be alot better for you too!

Post by **Diablo0** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:58 pm

Procedure was pretty painless other than the suction ring they put on your eye to make the eye hard so they can cut the flap. I had the intralase which is the bladeless and I also had the Wavefront. Cost was $4400 total out the door while other places go as low as 899 per eye but that didn't include custom wavefront, bladeless, enhancements, etc... The reason I went with this place over the others when the other places were cheaper is for one, this place here had ZERO infections out of all that they've ever done and overall everyone has good reviews of the place. The surgeon is a perfectionist, to the point that she's almost a nut but when it comes to vision and her being a perfectionist I take that as a good thing since it's pretty imporant, at least to me lol.

Initial pain, other than some brusing on my right eye that hurts a little, nada, no pain really at all or dryness in either eye for that matter. I have to put 4 different types of drops in for the next week tapering off certian drops up until a month after surgery but nothing too bad. Right now I have a little bit of haze to my vision around lights and bright objects like anything that is white but they said that go away in 2 weeks and totally by the end of the month as my cornea heals up and smooths out.

No real pan during surgery either, they used the same numbing drops as they do for their cataract surgeries so I didn't feel anything other than some pressure. I was really worried about it since I'm not one that can touch my eye very (reason why I didn't go with contacts) but I went through just fine...

I think I was about a -3.5 in each eye...

Post by **Diablo0** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:00 pm

Canada wrote:w00t!

Nice Jason, I am sure it'll be nice to not have to drag your glasses everywhere. Night driving should be alot better for you too!

I'm going to the mall tonight to get me some new sunglasses

It's soooo nice not to have to wear glasses now. For once I was able to wake up and see the alarm clock without having to put my glasses on lol

Bella Lugrossi · Post by **Bella Lugrossi** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:11 pm

that's so awesome! congrats. my hubby wants to do that so bad.

kc2005ptgt · Post by **kc2005ptgt** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:29 pm

meh, I will wait till I get older to get lasik, if ever at all... my vision is so close it aint funny... I have a stigmatism in my left eye... and I sit right at about 20/25 and 20/30

KrackstaR · Post by **KrackstaR** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:44 pm

congrads bro glad everything went well.

OB · Post by OB » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:54 pm

Congrats jason thats cool dude.

TiOL · Post by **TiOL** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:28 pm

jeez im so scared of it but maybe one day i will do it !

Post by **occasional demons** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:12 pm

Cograts!, I had mine done in '98. Technology is much better now. My eyes were -9 and -8. They would not guarantee 20/20 but I actually had 20/15 for awhile afterward. It isn't quite as good now but I still don't need glasses. Money well spent, no more worring about roller coasters, whitewater rafting, etc. It took a while for the haze at night to go away, but things are much better now. I'm almost tempted to have a tune-up.

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:49 pm

I am -3.5 myself in both eyes. I would love to be able to wake up without blurry contacts in or having to put glasses on. Not to mention having to fight putting on glasses with a track helmet on.

Post by **racer12306** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:52 pm

shoot, i never thought about glasses in a helmet. blah

ive wore sunglasses but my sunglasses are a little more robust than my eye glasses

glad to hear the surgary went good jason. i guess i will be working on getting it done when my eyes get a little worse. its just enough right now to be blurry in the middle of a lecture hall, so when it gets worse i will be looking into it.

fusion210 · Post by **fusion210** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:11 am

Great isn't it?

jT · Post by jT » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:23 am

occasional demons mentioned it, did they tell you or did you ask about future changes to your eyes and how it would affect the lasik?

get a pair of glasses and a few years later you might need stronger ones

what happens when you drop $4000+ on lasik? eyes can still change... drop another 4K to get it corrected again?

i would like lasik but cant afford it :p

Post by **Diablo0** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:45 am

Thanks everyone!

They said when you get into your 40s your eyes start to change again where the lens of your eye starts to harden so you become farsighted since you can't bend the lenes to focus on things up close. There isn't anything that can stop that, LASIK or not it will happen. I also have lifetime enhancement so if my vision changes again in 5 years or even 10 years I can get them corrected again. My vision hasn't changed much at all in the past 5 years where when I went in to get my eyes examined eariler this year since my previous glasses were a good 3 years old I think, they said the only real thing I would get from the visit was to get a new prescription to get a new pair of glasses. They do tell people (at least where I went) to only have it done if your vision hasn't changed in the past few years since like you said, you could have it done now but in 2 years you could be back to where you were if your eyes are still changing.

It's just so amazing that you can go from not being able to hardly see the E and 15min later read everything just fine without the need of glasses or contacts.

Post by **racer12306** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:53 am

15 minutes, thats it

Post by **Diablo0** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:03 am

less than 15min for the surgery but I had to be there for 2-3 hours since they had to take measurements and also a 2-3 hour consult a few weeks before surgery day where they dialated my eyes and took measurements. Anyone tries to dialate my eyes I'm going to punch them in the kidney!

Post by **racer12306** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:06 am

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:33 am

Gee Jason, I didn't recognize you when we met the first time in OH (you didn't look like the guy in your sig) and now no glasses? I won't know you!

Glad to read that everything turned out okay. Wish that I could lose my glasses as well.

rOniN · Post by **rOniN** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:09 pm

Welcome back to the 20/20 club!

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:38 pm

now its time to apply for flight school!

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:46 am

ragek23 wrote:now its time to apply for flight school!

Yeah, no more "Walleye Vision"!