Laser Vision Surgery

[Gvac]

What have you heard? Is it
100% safe and reliable? Is it
going to be like everything
else in this world; in a few
years it'll be so widespread
that it'll cost next to nothing?

All I know is that I'm sick to
death of contact lenses and
glasses.









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[HordeKing1]

GVAC - Tread very very cautiously. For the vast number of people laser surgery is effective in the short term with few side effects.

According to Time magazine 1-2% of laser surgeries end in what can only be considered disasters; ranging from permenant (non correctable scratches on the cornea to blindness!) For some reason the commercials never seem to mention the failures.

Personally, I'm waiting until they come out with the pill that corrects vision without any risk and takes off excess weight as well!

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[Gvac]

King,

Blindness is a possibility, huh? That's all I needed to hear. Looks like I'll be putting up with saline solution, rewetting drops, and lost glasses for a very long time.

Now if they could make that pill of yours also work as a "size enhancer"....










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[oldschoolbarb]

GVAC--I think it's pretty risky. A friend of mine had it, then had a detached retina...he's had five operations and it's still not fixed; he doesn't know if it will be and he's prepared to accept losing his vision in that eye. He knows of someone who had 10 operations to correct the detached retina and they never got their vision back.

I want to carry Fez around in my pocket.

[Pootertoot]

I shall laugh very hard when people's eyes start exploding 5 years down the line.

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[Koala]

I'd love a pill like that too hordeking. Can they add to the pill..smartness and youthfulness?

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[kate]

gvac -

I'm a believer. I got laser eye surgery last fall and I went from 20x800 to 20x20. I have perfect vision now.

One thing you almost never read or hear is that the procedure itself is damn scary and fairly painful. It only lasts about 12 minutes, but it was 12 of the worst minutes of my life. But even given that, I would still do it if I had to choose all over again. After 12 years of contacts, perfect vision feels like a miracle.

Just do the right thing and do some research to find the very best doctor you can. Avoid those "discount" places... ;]



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[Captain Rooster]

My buddy has just graduated from Georgetown medical - he told me that the word on the street with doctors is wait 10 years for all of the kinks to be worked out, then consider the surgery.

Good Luck

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[sunndoggy8]

I go to a special retina specialist for a problem I have w/my eye, and he's said similar things...wait a couple years for it to be perfected and even covered by most insurances, and by then hopefully it'll be better and safer. I have to agree with kate about it being painful though. I've had laser surgery for a retina problem (to prevent a detached retina when i'm older, b/c my retina has holes in it now...I don't have any sight problems, but it's preventative), and the laser surgery does hurt. TO give you a little info, they put this lens about the size of a golf ball up against your eye, and just the pressure of that kills...the laser is just bursts of heat. But still, it's definitely not painless.

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