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<blockquote data-quote="Hellefire" data-source="post: 3018109" data-attributes="member: 28129"><p><strong>my experiences</strong></p><p></p><p>I thought long and hard about Lasik surgery before I had it done. Part of the dichotomy of me...</p><p>1. I LOVE reading and have been programming for 23 years. Hence the need for clsoe vision.</p><p>2. I LOVE nature (from Alaska) and have been traveling for 30 years, and never plan to stop. Hence the need for distance vision.</p><p></p><p>Well, my plan was to not stop traveling unless I financially had to (note, that changed when I met a girl and had a baby...but she's into travelling too and we're going back to it, with the baby, in a couple years, after her brother finishes high school since we take care of him). I had been wearing contacts for 16 years and didn't know where my travels would take me or what the eye doctors in those countries would be like or where I would be sleeping/how clean my hands would be (I've never been able to sleep with my contacts in).</p><p></p><p>So, I had it done. As they said, my eyes felt liek they had hot sand in them for a day or two (this was in 2002, so things may have improved since). When my vision cleared, it was simply amazing. To be able to clearly see peopel and trees and details from afar, all the time, when I wake up, was just a god send. While I would not trade it for the world, there are a couple downsides...</p><p></p><p>1. Since I had to stop traveling for a bit and go back to doing some stuff with computers, my eyes get sore looking at a monitor (or reading a book) for an extended period of time. (I ended up with better than perfect vision, 20/15, which is great for distances but nowe I can't focus on extremely close objects).</p><p></p><p>2. The doctor told me that in about 85% of the cases, if you have star-bursts before surgery you will still have them after surgery (not the candy - is a visual effect where lights are fuzzy, and seem to have little streams of light coming out of them in all directions), that about 10% with them beforehand improve, and about 5% get worse. I think he said that if you don't have them before surgery, the chances of getting them from surgery is one of those next to impossible complications. With me, they either stayed the same, or got a little worse. As someone else stated about his wife, my night vision got slightly worse. I think. I'm not sure because it is a strange effect - and may be caused by the fact that most things are crystal clear while anything that is a light source is blurry. Also, avoid driving through a snowstorm if this happens to you. I drove out of Alaska and hit a blizzard...and lemme tell you, millions of fuzzy dots flying at me out of the darkness got my eyes pretty damn sore.</p><p></p><p>So, anyway, research the risks and possible good and bad effects. Yes, wait until your eyes finish changing (I'd ask a regular optician about that one). Decide whether distance or near vision is more important, because it's a fact that you have to give up a bit of one to improve the other. (By the way, when I had mine done the doctor told me that the surgery in no way changed the possibility that I would need reading glasses as I got older).</p><p></p><p>It is a bit scary, surgery with your eyes. Though I had a vasectomy last year, and guess which one scared me more?</p><p></p><p>Aaron</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hellefire, post: 3018109, member: 28129"] [b]my experiences[/b] I thought long and hard about Lasik surgery before I had it done. Part of the dichotomy of me... 1. I LOVE reading and have been programming for 23 years. Hence the need for clsoe vision. 2. I LOVE nature (from Alaska) and have been traveling for 30 years, and never plan to stop. Hence the need for distance vision. Well, my plan was to not stop traveling unless I financially had to (note, that changed when I met a girl and had a baby...but she's into travelling too and we're going back to it, with the baby, in a couple years, after her brother finishes high school since we take care of him). I had been wearing contacts for 16 years and didn't know where my travels would take me or what the eye doctors in those countries would be like or where I would be sleeping/how clean my hands would be (I've never been able to sleep with my contacts in). So, I had it done. As they said, my eyes felt liek they had hot sand in them for a day or two (this was in 2002, so things may have improved since). When my vision cleared, it was simply amazing. To be able to clearly see peopel and trees and details from afar, all the time, when I wake up, was just a god send. While I would not trade it for the world, there are a couple downsides... 1. Since I had to stop traveling for a bit and go back to doing some stuff with computers, my eyes get sore looking at a monitor (or reading a book) for an extended period of time. (I ended up with better than perfect vision, 20/15, which is great for distances but nowe I can't focus on extremely close objects). 2. The doctor told me that in about 85% of the cases, if you have star-bursts before surgery you will still have them after surgery (not the candy - is a visual effect where lights are fuzzy, and seem to have little streams of light coming out of them in all directions), that about 10% with them beforehand improve, and about 5% get worse. I think he said that if you don't have them before surgery, the chances of getting them from surgery is one of those next to impossible complications. With me, they either stayed the same, or got a little worse. As someone else stated about his wife, my night vision got slightly worse. I think. I'm not sure because it is a strange effect - and may be caused by the fact that most things are crystal clear while anything that is a light source is blurry. Also, avoid driving through a snowstorm if this happens to you. I drove out of Alaska and hit a blizzard...and lemme tell you, millions of fuzzy dots flying at me out of the darkness got my eyes pretty damn sore. So, anyway, research the risks and possible good and bad effects. Yes, wait until your eyes finish changing (I'd ask a regular optician about that one). Decide whether distance or near vision is more important, because it's a fact that you have to give up a bit of one to improve the other. (By the way, when I had mine done the doctor told me that the surgery in no way changed the possibility that I would need reading glasses as I got older). It is a bit scary, surgery with your eyes. Though I had a vasectomy last year, and guess which one scared me more? Aaron [/QUOTE]
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