the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[shorebird]

Dammitt man!

[Tomahawk]

I had it done quite a few years ago (by a well known, reputable eye guy, not somebody who was looking to rush through a bunch of patients to help make his mortgage payment), and I haven't had any real problems.

It's not a perfect solution, but it's still way better than carrying glasses around, or poking foreign objects into your eyes on a daily basis.

So what was the best part? Being able to see clearly immediately after you wake up? Being able to go swimming without worrying about losing a contact?

[Sgt PSN]

i want to get lasik done but i'm trying to find the worst possible dr to do the surgery.  my hope is that he messes something up and i wake up to find that i can see the future. 

[Tomahawk]

Just go buy a magic 8-ball (from a store; not some guy on the street corner)

[Sgt PSN]

because of the warranty?

[LBIggle]

I had it done quite a few years ago (by a well known, reputable eye guy, not somebody who was looking to rush through a bunch of patients to help make his mortgage payment), and I haven't had any real problems.

It's not a perfect solution, but it's still way better than carrying glasses around, or poking foreign objects into your eyes on a daily basis.

So what was the best part? Being able to see clearly immediately after you wake up? Being able to go swimming without worrying about losing a contact?

why isn't it a perfect solution? i heard sometimes you get adverse reactions like dry eyes and shtein.  which i deal with with contacts anyway.  what unwanted things do you get from it?

[Sgt PSN]

lasik isn't always a permanent solution.  you basically have to go back in every few years for a "tune up" because the surgery might correct your vision to 20/20 today, it won't necessarily prevent your eyesight from getting worse as time goes on.  that's one of the big reasons why i haven't had it done yet.  i can get it free in the military but what i want to try and avoid is having multiple doctors work on my eyes over the next several years as i move from station to station until i decide to retire.  instead, i'll wear glasses and (mostly) contacts for the next few years and then when i'm about to retire and settle into civilian life i'll get it done so that i can stick with the same doc long term.   

one of the problems i've heard about is depending on how your eyes respond/react to the surgery, you may have a low tolerance for bright lights which means you're wearing sunglasses any time you step outside.  not really a problem for me as i wear sunglasses all the time anyway, but for people looking to the surgery so they can stop wearing glasses or carrying them around with them all the time, it might be a bit of a turn off.   

[Seabiscuit36]

i thought the military still only goes with RPK?  I think DMF got it at some point, why do i remember this shtein. 

What Sarge said about lights and nighttime i've heard many times, it gives you halo effects at night, and you do become more sensitive to bright light in general.  I just dont want them farging up my dreamy eyes

[Susquehanna Birder]

That's pretty much it. I have more dry eye issues, but it's not a really bad thin. Mostly it's fixed with some saline drops in the morning. Plus, because of my age, they didn't want to overcorrect. Instead, the guy undercorrected one eye, so that I could use one dominant eye for distance, and another for reading. It took a while for my brain to adjust to it, but in the end, it worked out.

I have noticed some changes in my vision, like Sarge said, and I might consider a tune-up. But for now, it's not that bad, and it's certainly not like my vision was before I had the procedure.

I did have a little bit of bright light issues, but it wasn't enough to worry about. Mostly just annoying stuff while driving at night...but it got better in time.

[Sgt PSN]

i thought the military still only goes with RPK?  I think DMF got it at some point, why do i remember this shtein. 

yeah, it's rpk instead of lasik but it's still free so i don't give a crap what they call it. 

[hbionic]

Saw Marv Levy in Palm Desert this past weekend at a Ralphs grocery store. He had a brown leather jacket on. He looked old.

[mussa]

Dammitt man!

sweet berry wine!

[Drunkmasterflex]

You can get PRK or Lasik in the military.  PRK takes a lot longer to heal but you don't have a flap in your cornea.  I got PRK done 3 years ago and the only side affect that I have is dry eyes in the morning, but I am not sure if that is from the surgery or not. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

My impression is that it's more from the gizmo they use to hold your eyes open while they do the procedure, rather than from the surgery itself.

[Drunkmasterflex]

Thing is I always had dry eyes in the morning anyway from contacts, plus it is something my father has and he doesn't where corrective lenses other than to read.