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| "I have that natural clear vision, via lasik. It's all done now, no
lenses, chemicals, carrying cases, watching the "lens clock",
forgetting to bring your stuff when traveling. What a horrible life
now."
I am glad to hear you are one of those guys who got a good outcome from
lasik.You beat the odds and won the reward of clear, hassle free
vision. Me and many, many people however arent willing to gamble their
clear glasses or contact lense vision for what may or may not be clear
lasik vision. With glasses and contacts you are guaranteed clear
vision. Lasik usually gives vision worse than glasses/contacts
sometimes much, much worse.
You stand correct that its convinent not to need to depend on lenses
for the time being. Ok so you save 5 minutes of your life a day not
cleaning your glasses or contact lenses. You must be a really busy man.
When I travel all I have to do is bring my glasses. When I get orthoK
ill bring my lenses with me if the vacation lasts more than 3 days. I
will only have to wear the lenses at night and when I wake up ill leave
them in the hotel and im free all day with natural vision.
Dont hold your breath, the long term risks of lasik bites some people.
Many people regress after a number of years then they are back in
glasses/contacts or pony up another $5000 for more lasik and take
another risk. I know some people who developed dry eyes several years
after lasik. Others eyes are still changing and their vision goes
downhill. Some have proposed that most lasik people experience a myopic
shift years after they get lasik. With RK it was a hyperopic shift that
struck nearly 50% of people. Guess what, they are back in bifocals full
time and cant see from far nor near where if they left things alone,
they wouldnt even need reading glasses! I do wish the best for you and
hope your lasik surgury holds up 
"You're wrong. My contrast sensitivity increased and like that poster
said the other week: it's like I now see in HD. I have 40 years of
reference."
Lasik never increases quality of vision. As "Eye" put it, the challenge
is find a SINGLE case where someone with normal virgin eyes experienced
an actual improvement in quality of vision. It would be big news indeed
when that happens. Maybe in 10 years a select few people will actually
improve quality of vision. Others say lasik will never ever be able to
improve quality of vision due to the nature of the surgury. People may
think they see better but if we test them before lasik and after, they
will score worse despite what they think and all laser surgury induces
more high order aberrations which is responsable for a universal
decrease in quality and sometimes also a loss of accuracy of vision. I
know many people who lost one, two or more lines of best corrected
vision. One story was shared by this 23 year college woman I talked to.
She tells everyone not to get lasik and told me never, never get lasik
or ill ruin my eyes like she did. She used to wear contacts but
developed an intolerance to them so she got lasik and now has crappy
night vision, dry eyes and ghosting and can no longer see 20/20. She
wishes she could go back to glasses and get clear vision.
"I guess that not only did you not
know you needed glasses"
Everyone doesnt realize they need glasses till they find out they do. I
was 12 when this happened. Its normal.
"you still don't know you need to wear the
proper rx"
My ophthamologist said theres no such thing as a proper RX, only what
you feel is right. He says the eye exams people get just give an
estimate of what power you need but many people do better with a
somewhat lower pescription. I was told I am -5.5 and -5 and have
glasses in that power but I cant see a thing from near with those
glasses and it gives me eyestrain. I have an appointment for an eye
exam tomorrow morning and I bet those numbers are too strong for me now
because ive done vision improvement.
"in fact, it seems like you don't
know jack."
If you want to know something, just ask me ;)
"there will always be people with any elective procedure who
were left with complications."
Thats why its elective.
". Do you "know" any of these people the way
you "know" so many people who've had LASIK problems"
I know thousands of people with lasik problems and countless thousands
more have complications. With orthoK I know maybe 2 people with
complications and only 50 complications have been recorded with orthoK.
This makes orthoK like 500 times safer than lasik. Good enough for me.
"I can't wait to hear your glowing reports. Meanwhile, I won't be
putting
in lenses, buying new lenses, buying cleaning solution, traveling with
cleaning solution, lenses and glasses, coming home before 6 pm when my
"sight" wears off, peeling lenses off my eyes in the morning, having
bruised corneas, corneal ulcers, treating eye infections, buying
several
pairs of glasses to make up for my distorted corneas as their shape
gradually returns to its natural shape throughout the day. I will wake
up every morning and go to bed every night without thinking about my
eyes. Exactly what I wanted."
Youll hear my glowing reports all right. You make contact lenses sound
like such hard business but its very, very simple in reality. I pop in
the orthoK lenses at night, sleep right thru them where time flies by
and wake up, blink a few times, pop the lenses out into the cleaning
solution and let them disinfect all day and come night, I insert the
lenses, rinse and repeat. Its as simple and routine as washing your
face or brushing your hair. I also will wake up without thinking about
my eyes except the few seconds it takes to pop my lenses out. orthoK
couldnt be any simplier without the risks of lasik
"You sure have changed your tune. Which malcontent freak are you that
was pretending to be rational for awhile?"
I became rational by listening to sad stories told by malcontents.
However im not really a malcontent, just a realistist. I dont think
laser surgury should be banned like the malcontents wish and I even
think a select few people might stand to benefit taking the laser
surgury risk. What the problem is theres way too much hype and poor
candidates getting lasik when they never should. I also believe in
everyone should be 100% informed but the problem is most are poorly
informed and kinda rush into surgury oblivious of the very real and
common risks.
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