Got Lasik yesterday

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Originally posted by RichC@Oct 24 2003, 10:12 AM
I think I waited forever just cause I didn't want to risk losing my vision...as slim as the odds on that may be.

The doctor put it in the best...."the odds of going blind driving to your appoitnment today were greater than the odds of going blind getting this procedure done."

Most of the horror stories have to do with the way the flap used to be created (and alot of folks still do it the old way)...now they can do that part with laser....which also made me feel more comfortable about it all.

I had been stuck with glasses since my second year of law school...never got used to contacts as they irritated the heck outta me....gonna be nice to actually fall asleep watching tv, and not have to remember to take my glasses off before I fall asleep....haven't gotton to do that in years....it's the little things I guess

I've asked my regular doc about it a few times (he wears glasses). He says it's still too new. That there's not enough long term data to know how it goes as you get older...primarily because they've refined the methods in recent years. I'm wary of getting it done and having to do it again in 10 years and again, etc. At some point, I'd think you'd reach the threshold of the number of surgeries the eye can take.