WOT: lasik eye surgery, anyone have it done? Options

[mattillac]

i hear it's awesome. i'm nearsighted and i hate wearing my glasses. just wondering if anyone here had the operation done. it's supposed to be quick and painless with instant results. it also costs about $2,500.

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[lapuwali]

QUOTE (mattillac @ Mar 4 2005, 01:05 PM)

groot, so you can read the signs and see the damn lines on the road at night now? i'm 24 and i've been told that i should wait till i'm over thirty till i get the surgery cause my eyes will still be changing up until that point. but i'm sure they'll probably change after 30 too, so i'm not sure how valid that is. if you don't mind me asking, whats your age groot.

I'm nearsighted, which is very common. My vision changed pretty much yearly until I hit about 25 or so. It then slowed dramatically, and I basically have the same prescription now I had when I was in my late 20s (I'm 40). It's now beginning to change again, but not in the same way. I'm slowly becoming more farsighted. I used to be able to (without glasses) focus on and read very small type or other really small things. Now, I'm having a hard time doing that w/o a magnifier (but NOT regular glasses). This will almost certainly get worse over the next 10 years or so. This is pretty typical, I'm told. Some people don't start getting the farsighted changes until they're in their 50s, so I'm a little early.

So, vision does change with age, and the rate and type of change is different as you age. If you did it at age 30, you'll likely be glasses-free for 10-20 years. Then, you'll likely need glasses again to read or do anything close up. $2000 over 10-15 years isn't so bad, esp. if you get new glasses every couple of years. If you don't normally do anything that requires really close-up vision, it's not much of a loss.