Will my eyes get worse as I get over or will they stay 20/20 forever? My eyes are really bad.
2006-09-05 04:56:58 · 8 answers · asked by AmsterF 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Last year i went for laser eye surgery last year and it was, to date, the best money i've ever spent.
Find a reputable doctor (it's so important to get references). Go for the necessary tests before committing to it and understand all the risks. Yes, there are risks, but it'll be completely up to you if you want to accept them.
When i went for my tests, they did a scan of my eyes to get it's topography readings. As it turned out, my cornea was too thin for the LasiK procedure (the most common practice thesedays). I had to wait about a month while my doctor consulted his colleagues on whether he could still do the procedure.
LasiK wasn't an option for me, but after my doc did a lot of communication with other doctors, he found that an older technique called PRK was a viable option. He found out about patients with similar cornea conditions who underwent that procedure, how they were doing 3 months after the surgery, 1 year after the surgery, etc.
I took the plunge in July 2005 and haven't regretted it in the least. The fact that you have to accept is that the results will not last forever; they do not prevent the natural aging process. I fully accept that my eyes will get weaker again in about 15 years, but i'm fine with it cos i'll just go for surgery again, haha. LasiK and PRK are slightly different technique and the recovery times differ, but at the end of the day, the risks and results are the same.
LASIK
They cut open a section of your cornea, use the laser, close it up again. Recovery time is something like 24 hours.
PRK
They scrape off the top layer of cells on your cornea and then use the laser. You then wear special contact lenses for 3 days while your cells grow back. Recovery time is longer than LasiK, but i was driving after 5 days.
2006-09-06 22:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by MM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you know it is the matter of the curvature of you eyes' cornea I don't know how good are you at optics but I summerise my answer by telling that the more this curvature is the more the light bends. If you are a person who has a better sight of the closer objects than the farer objects, it is effective for you because your lenses have excessive light refraction . What that we do in the Lasic Eye Surgery (LES) is that we use the power of laser rays to cut a small part of your cornea to reduce the curvature of the cornea. This is prooved to be effective in almost 95% of the cases. But always remember that human body's structure is based on a genetic background. So since your cornea has been made in this way before, it will reform again. This time has been estimated about ten years averrage. Although this was unexpected, the lasic surgery is wildly being used across the globe. In some cases the return of the curvature was much worse than their euesight before . So I've heard that in some states in the US this operation has been forbidden.
2006-09-05 05:25:10 · answer #2 · answered by Mehryar J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a good article in Cary Tennis' column on Salon.com about this last week . Cary is an advice columnist and a poor man who had disasterous results from LASIK surgery wrote in and asked how to cope with his situation. Making matters worse was that the guy didn't really want the surgery that bad before, but his friend talked him into it.
Be sure to read all of their letters to the editor on this subject as well. This should help you make an informed decision.
2006-09-05 05:08:47 · answer #3 · answered by Booboobabies 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you go for laser eye surgery, do not use lazak or RPK. In both instances they use a knife to cut a flap on your eyeball, lift the flap, zap your eye and replace the flap. If the flap is not put on correctly, you will have blurry vision. The best route to go is with 'no-touch' laser eye surgery. An ideal place for that is: London Place Eye Centre, 918-12th. Street, New Westminster, British Columbia Canada, V3M 6B1. phone 604-526-2483, or toll free in North America 1-800-395-2483. Visit their website: www.lasereye.com.
2006-09-05 05:15:07 · answer #4 · answered by theprez7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they will stay 20/20 forever
just make sure your power has not gone up in a long time
this is to ages 18-21+
however, when you are middleaged you will need reading glasses
this is natural however for everyone experiences this
(did u know that in thailand it is only $750 per eye to do laser surgery)
2006-09-05 05:01:49 · answer #5 · answered by Secondhand Rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you go to a hospital with eye specialists and pay the $10,000 it takes for real professionals to do it the results will likely be great. If you go to bob's lasik and just pay a couple of thousand... you could regret it.
2006-09-05 05:00:04 · answer #6 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your eyes will change like they normally would even if you didn't get lasik done. You will need reading glasses when you hit about 40, but your distance should be fairly good until you develop cataracts.
2006-09-05 05:30:56 · answer #7 · answered by idoc4u2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would highly recomend it, i had it done and i have never looked back, no pun intended
2006-09-06 10:28:00 · answer #8 · answered by Lilolme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋