LASIK

One of the best things I have ever done. I highly recommend it. Pick the best doctor. Pay for the peace of mind if you have to. I did it 3 years ago this month and it's been perfect. I was in California at the time, so I can't recommend a doctor here.
 
There's no best doctor, but there are plenty that don't have the experience or technology.
 
Yeah -- you can shop around for a refigerator or a microwave, but pay as much as you can afford for eye surgery. They're the only two (or one, if you're a pirate) you get. Don't go cheap on this.
 
1. Read every horror story on surgicaleyes.org before you do it. Bad **** does happen, even with the most expensive doctors. And the bad **** will ruin your life. You need to know this reality before you make your decision or you are a fool.

2. As said by others, go to the most expensive doctor you can find.

2. Best thing I ever did. I have some pretty serious floaters now, did not before. Still the best thing I ever did.
 
yeah after surgicaleyes.org i've pretty much decided against it. i just wanted to eliminate the hassle of glasses/contacts, if you can call it a hassle.

those testimonials are sad.
 
I worked with an individual who was an Exec at one of the companies who makes the lasers and she said that she wouldn't let her family do it because no one is certain of the long term effects of removing a health portion of the cornea from your eye. I know several people who have done it who now have to wear glasses again because their vision has once again changed. I WOULD NOT DO IT.
 
I think both sides are lying on the odds of a bad result. It's not nearly one in a million like the doctors say, but not as frequent as the surgicaleyes zealots say either. I bet 4 or 5 out of 100 patients wish they had not done it, and maybe 1 out of 100 has a truly debilitating life ruining result. Maybe it's not even 1 in 100, distill that to only the people going to the best high dollar docs with the state of the art machinery and maybe it's 1 in 1000. But it happens, and that's scary.

My result was awesome though, 20/20 in both (I was 20/400 in one 20/200 in the other), minor floaters, no halos or glaring after the first three months. Actually better night driving vision than with glasses. Best thing I ever did. Still, the smell of your own eyeball burning is a pretty freaky thing.
 
True, that the long term effects of Lasik aren't known, but as far as removing a portion of healthy cornea tissue is concerned, I don't really see the problem. Many people out there have thinner cornea tissue than people who have gone through Lasik surgery.

If that was the case people with naturally thin corneas would be experiencing problems as well.
 
I disagree. The long term effects of the laser and cornea interaction are just too uncertain. Its not about the thinkness of the cornea, its how the cornea reacts to the change in the long term (regeneration, scar tissue, etc.).
 
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