LASIK Anyone?

[dan79brooklyn]

I had it done two years ago at a good clinic in Connecticut. Cost about $2000 for both eyes. Used the expensive eye drops and took fish oil to deal with dry eyes. My eyes were only dry for a couple months and just in the morning. Left eye was super sharp immediately right eye took 6 months to a year to get good. Now I have super vision and no regrets.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by legion

Had it done about 6 years ago. Went from 20/400 to 20/10. Cost me around $3,000, cash.

Pros:
-I can see all the time.
-I can see better than I ever could with glasses.


Cons:
-It took about 2 years before I could see at night without seeing halos around lights.
-I now have chronic dry eyes.
-I can now see floaters in my eyes that I was unable to focus on before.

This seems more normal ($3000-4000) based on the research my wife did. My wife had it done 5-6 years ago. Before, she was able to read a book, but her distance vision wasn't great. What they often do is do one eye for close up and one eye for far, but for some reason, that probably wasn't going to be good for my wife, so they did both of her eyes for far vision. Now she needs glasses to read which bugs her. I'll have to ask if she's still happy that she did it or not. SHe had halos, but only for a couple of weeks, I think. She had also never noticed floaters, but sees them now. She had dry eyes, but I think those cleared up. Personally, I would not go anywhere that could do it for $200-300. I've seen what they do, and I want someone that's a bit more proud of their work than that. Some things are fine to get from the dollar store, but brain surgery, heart surgery, spinal surgery and eye surgery are not on the list of approved dollar store surgeries.

Have you watched the videos on youtube of what they do?