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11-17-2005, 06:13 PM
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Re: lasik recovery time
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I know next time I have a serious medical issue, I'm gonna ask a bunch of random people on OOT instead of my doctor. [/ QUOTE ] Where do you think your doctor looks when he has a question? [/ QUOTE ] Nice one. I'm seriously starting to think that's what my doctor does. [/ QUOTE ] Most Docs use something called UpToDate it's kind of like a google/Wikipedia of medicine. 
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#13
11-17-2005, 06:22 PM
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Re: lasik recovery time
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Are there any drawbacks? My mother claims you lose "depth of vision," whatever that means. Maybe she means depth perception. Also, how risky a procedure is it? [/ QUOTE ] People that have lasik in their 30s/early 40s will usually require reading glasses in a few years, but they would have anyway if they had had perfect vision all their lives. I'm a 3rd year med student and I spent a week with an Optho that did a lot of Lasik, he had his eyes done, and as we walked around the hospital he was constantly bumping into people whom he had corrected w/ lasik One word of advice, you pay for what you get, anyone offering like 300 an eye in the phone book probably isnt worth it, make sure they're an opthomologist, and ask how many times they've done the procedure and for how long they have been doing it. It's a good sign if they own a lasik machine and have it in their office, it's a bad sign if the machine is in a bus and parks outside their office the one day that they do the procedure (I'm not kidding)
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#14
11-17-2005, 06:25 PM
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P.S. LASIK pwns. Highly recommended to anyone, and I recommend TLC Vision Center (the people who did Tiger Woods's surgery). Went from being unable to read the big "E" on the eyechart to 20/15 vision in a matter of minutes. Lasik FTW. [/ QUOTE ] I had my procedure 3 years ago from a well-regarded doc. My recovery time was 2-3 days, I have never ever had any problems with eyes being too dry, nor have I had any halos. However my night vision sucks, and still sucks years later. Met with docs and while there are some drops that can help the situation I'm pretty much stuck with crappy night vision. That being said, I'd still opt to do it again if I had to.
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#15
11-17-2005, 06:32 PM
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Re: lasik recovery time
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Are there any drawbacks? My mother claims you lose "depth of vision," whatever that means. Maybe she means depth perception. Also, how risky a procedure is it? [/ QUOTE ] You might want to PM Mason, I remember him post a negative experience about this procedure (I hope I'm not remmebering wrong).
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#17
11-17-2005, 07:13 PM
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Re: lasik recovery time
Funny you posted this.
I just got back from the doctor's office to have them take a look why my left eye was bothering me the last few days after having wavefront done on Friday. I guess it's just dryness in my case. After the procedure on Friday, I took a nap for about 3 hours. Woke up and watched NBA games. I had no problems seeing. Next day, I was out driving and playing online poker. So far my vision is better than 20/20 according to the doc. Only have to deal with dryness for a bit longer supposedly. Lots and lots of eye drops. Yay! [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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#18
11-17-2005, 07:15 PM
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How old are you guys? I'm 20 and want Lasik so bad. [/ QUOTE ] Have you talked to a doctor about this. I think this is considered on the young side.. I was 23 when I did it and this was considered OK, but the doc did mention that for many ppl eyes will be more stabilized in your mid 20's. I had horrible vision so I didn't want to wait.
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#19
11-18-2005, 02:07 AM
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Re: lasik recovery time
You are so damn lucky. My flap was wrinkled twice in the two days after my surgery, leading to two more surgeries. When it finally healed, I found my eye was no longer far sighted, but it's so near sighted it's really unusable.
I met with the doctor this week. He thinks my flap still has some wrinkles and he's schedule another surgery to fix that. If that works, he'll then schedule a laser correction to fix the lense..
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#20
11-18-2005, 12:51 PM
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Re: lasik recovery time
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[ QUOTE ] Are there any drawbacks? My mother claims you lose "depth of vision," whatever that means. Maybe she means depth perception. Also, how risky a procedure is it? [/ QUOTE ] People that have lasik in their 30s/early 40s will usually require reading glasses in a few years, but they would have anyway if they had had perfect vision all their lives. I'm a 3rd year med student and I spent a week with an Optho that did a lot of Lasik, he had his eyes done, and as we walked around the hospital he was constantly bumping into people whom he had corrected w/ lasik One word of advice, you pay for what you get, anyone offering like 300 an eye in the phone book probably isnt worth it, make sure they're an opthomologist, and ask how many times they've done the procedure and for how long they have been doing it. It's a good sign if they own a lasik machine and have it in their office, it's a bad sign if the machine is in a bus and parks outside their office the one day that they do the procedure (I'm not kidding) [/ QUOTE ] My question is, is it better to find an invididual opthomologist, or would going to one of the big, *expensive* chains, like TLC, be a better idea? It seems to me that the latter folks would be more experienced with possible problems . . . and they aren't cheap, fly-by-night operations.
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