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Question to the anti-laser surgury crowd, is prk or any laser ever neccessary?
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| I just got done reading an aviation forum. Those people want to be
pilots or join the air force. However their vision doesnt qualify. They
can get PRK(not lasik!) and usually be grated a waiver to get in. They
know the risks of surgury but its their only choice to realize their
dream of flying or joining the army, especially airforce. Of course if
they have a complication or still dont get the vision to qualify, they
could be out of luck. But by their logic, its a risk they must take and
the only chance to get in. What would you say to them? Forget laser
surgury, find another carreer instead or "go for it and good luck?"
Additionally, is laser or other refractive surgury ever a medicial
neccessary? I know that its permissable to get IOLs to remove cateracts
once they impair your vision. What if someone was born with
anisometropia such as farsighted in one eye and near in the other? Or
perhaps near plano in one eye and a big pescription in the other? I
know contact lenses would be the logical choice but he cant tolerate
them at all. Would you tell him to: Live without correction and make do
with blurry vision. Wear glasses and deal with the headaches and
inability to fuse the two eyes for binocular vision. Or perhaps give
him the "go ahead" to get lasik or other refractive surgury because its
pratically a medicial neccessary in his case?
Is refractive surgury ever permissable for athlates or those with jobs
where glasses and/or contacts arent allowed? I know youll speak against
refractive surgury for the average person, but if someone has an
exceptional reason or a medicial one, then is lasik, prk or other
surgury permissiable? Is there any circumstances where the risks of
lasik, prk, etc is less than the risks of NOT getting it?
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| nunayabizinez@yahoo.com 2005-12-24, 11:00 am |
| Guess what? Lots of people have dreams that are never realized, for
many reasons. They learn to live with it. Sometimes not getting what
you think you want turns out to be your biggest blessing. Everyone has
disappointments and frustrations in life. They learn to live with them
and get on with their lives. You should too.
Ace, you must be very young, very lacking in life experience and very
isolated with nothing else to do with your time. What others do and why
they do it is none of your business, and not up to you to judge or
stick your nose in. Find a hobby that gets you out of the house and
teaches you how to interact with live humans. And quit obsessing over
your vision. You see far better than lots of people. Go get an eye
exam, get a proper correction and start living a real life.
Your arrogance in thinking that you are actually helping people when
you obviously have no credentials and are dispensing very bad advice is
harmful. You're the perfect example of a little knowledge being very
dangerous. You believe and repeat every debunked myth about vision and
you have NO training in any field of vision care. You haven't even
learned a simple function like how to spell check-so what makes you
think you know enough about vision to make pronouncements about it? You
can read every book there is and talk to every person on earth, it will
still NOT make you qualified as the expert you think you are. Go take a
walk or something.
Ace wrote:
> I just got done reading an aviation forum. Those people want to be
> pilots or join the air force. However their vision doesnt qualify. They
> can get PRK(not lasik!) and usually be grated a waiver to get in. They
> know the risks of surgury but its their only choice to realize their
> dream of flying or joining the army, especially airforce. Of course if
> they have a complication or still dont get the vision to qualify, they
> could be out of luck. But by their logic, its a risk they must take and
> the only chance to get in. What would you say to them? Forget laser
> surgury, find another carreer instead or "go for it and good luck?"
>
> Additionally, is laser or other refractive surgury ever a medicial
> neccessary? I know that its permissable to get IOLs to remove cateracts
> once they impair your vision. What if someone was born with
> anisometropia such as farsighted in one eye and near in the other? Or
> perhaps near plano in one eye and a big pescription in the other? I
> know contact lenses would be the logical choice but he cant tolerate
> them at all. Would you tell him to: Live without correction and make do
> with blurry vision. Wear glasses and deal with the headaches and
> inability to fuse the two eyes for binocular vision. Or perhaps give
> him the "go ahead" to get lasik or other refractive surgury because its
> pratically a medicial neccessary in his case?
>
> Is refractive surgury ever permissable for athlates or those with jobs
> where glasses and/or contacts arent allowed? I know youll speak against
> refractive surgury for the average person, but if someone has an
> exceptional reason or a medicial one, then is lasik, prk or other
> surgury permissiable? Is there any circumstances where the risks of
> lasik, prk, etc is less than the risks of NOT getting it?
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| "Guess what? Lots of people have dreams that are never realized, for
many reasons. They learn to live with it. Sometimes not getting what
you think you want turns out to be your biggest blessing. Everyone has
disappointments and frustrations in life. They learn to live with them
and get on with their lives. You should too."
Good answer and you speak for the rest. I guess all those who want to
be pilots or athlates will have to find something different to do and
deal with it. If they can find a way to work around it, then more power
to them! Theres alot of things I cant do with my vision but I accept
this and instead of complaining I find other things to do. Of course
some people dont care what you say and they arent going to let their
myopia get in the way and get prk or lasik anyway. If they end up with
problems, they will lose alot more and may not be able to do much. Of
course ive seen some successful PRK subjects go on to be pilots, their
dream goal in life. I am happy for them but for others, it made things
worse. One guy wanted to be a pilot, got PRK and ended with 20/30 and
can no longer be corrected to 20/20 with anything. Anyway I am not
going to stop those people, its their eyes, their choice to get RS or
not. People make bad choices everyday on anything in life, its human to
make mistakes. Ive made tons of mistakes. Should all laser surgury be
abolished, banned? I would say no, that would be a selfish thing taking
away the choice people have the right and freedom to make. I could give
an analogy that smoking and drinking is bad. Its still around, but we
choose not to drink and smoke but its there for some to make the bad
choice.
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