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What are the Pros and Clasikf Laser Eye Surgery?

I’m thinking of getting Lasik. I just want to know if anyone has gotten the procedure done, and what were your experince.

I had mine done a year ago. It wasn’t that I hated contacts, just knew it was always going to be money I spent for the rest of my life. With a reimbursement account at work, I knew they would end up paying for about half of it.

The procedure isn’t the funnest, but its really short. They shoot a laser to the back of your eye to really reshape it. (so the light is more focused). How long they shoot this laser depends on how bad the eye is. I would say my total procedure was maybe 12 mins. (from the time I got into the room to the time I walked out). They take you to another room and test yours eye site in like 15 mins after that. The only real bad part is they put stuff in your eye so your pupils get big, and they are shining this bright light in your eye. You want to close your eyes with how bright it is, but you can’t.

The first day is kind of tough. You just feel tired (mostly because of the stuff they put in your eye) and you want to just stay in a dark room. You have to put drops in your eye ever half hour to an hour for the first day. Then go back to the doctor the day after, then keep putting drops in your eye for up to three months after. (But the drops get less and less frequent, like to every 3 hours to ever 4 hours to ever 6 hours to where you are just doing it morning and night). After three months then its just using the drops when you feel like it.

That brings us to the bad. The biggest hold back for me was the eye flap. Yes they have to cut the top part of your eye, and flip it back so they can shoot the laser in the eye. This actually is probably the biggest place something could go wrong, and not really in the procedure, but future. After having this done your eye is never really the same (obviously after this its not going to be the same as it was before). For the first while you have to be careful not to rub your eye to hard because in theory the flab could I guess open again. (usually not a problem if you are use to contacts) Also getting anything poked in your eye is bad, with this flap stuff its still bad. But after a while you figure out the best way to rub your eye and honestly I don’t think I worry about it much now after a year.

I do see still some bury/star effect on bright lights. I don’t know if that is normal or not. It doesn’t really bother me, because even if the lights are blurry, if there was a sign right next to it I could read it perfectly. Next my eyes do get dry. Maybe my eyes always were dry because I always had to have special contacts for dry eyes. So I don’t know if that is just me or just part of the whole deal?

I would do it again. make sure you find a good doctor. Make sure you find out how they do it. (How they cut the flap). all of these things. There are enough people doing it that its pretty safe, its just a matter of finding the right doctor.