Anybody Ever had lasik surgery before

[Egomaniacal1]

Did that going blind part scare you

I don't remember going blind so much as shyt was just wildly out of focus when they cut your cornea and move that flap back.

I wasn't scared at all, maybe a little nervous but was more excited about getting rid of my glasses.

 

[dtownreppin214]

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[Dreamzeedream]

I don't remember going blind so much as shyt was just wildly out of focus when they cut your cornea and move that flap back.

I wasn't scared at all, maybe a little nervous but was more excited about getting rid of my glasses.

Did u have to pay a down payment

 

[Egomaniacal1]

Did u have to pay a down payment

Naw my credit ain't that good that I coulda got financed.
I came into some money and saved up to do it. Paid it in full.

 

[GunRanger]

Still good breh...i had it done October of 2012 or 2011.

EDIT: B90X laid it out perfectly. For me i had all my testing and stuff done closer to home and then went to Nashville(3 hours away) to get the surgery done. I think i sat in the waiting room longer than it took the surgery to actually be performed. Had me thinking i should have become an Ophthalmologist, making money hand over fist with minimal time required

Anyway the time directly after the surgery when that pain starts to set in, that shyt was no fun That was the worst part about it but they give you a script for pain pills and then you don't touch you eyes so they can heal. Totally worth it and i tell anyone who's on the fence thinking about it, to go for it. Not having glasses or contacts>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I'll give you my experience:

I got Lasik like Spring 2007. The procedure itself only takes like 30 mins total. For me, it went something like this;

You go into the office and the doctor goes over the procedure with you. The Doctor then runs some standard eye tests on you through the machines. Then they go numb your eyes (I'm assuming you've already experienced this if you're thinking about getting Lasik. My regular optometrist numbed my eyes a few times leading up to the procedure) and "mark" your eyes with a felt tip pen. It's weird because you can see the pen touch your eye but you can't feel it. At any rate, after that is finished, they take you to the surgery room, which is where the fun happens.

They'll cover one eye with an eye patch and leave the other eye open. Obviously, they're operating on the open eye. They'll move the machine over your eye and start the procedure. My doctor said this to me, "Now, when we start the surgery you'll go blind for about 3-5 seconds, but then your eyesight will come back". He didn't lie. The machine makes a loud popping sound and then your sight goes black. Now, I know you think you know what pitch black is, but you have no clue until you go blind. That shyt freaked me out. The eye that was covered, I couldn't "see" anything out of before the surgery started, but once the eye he was operating on went "blind" I could see the difference between not being able to see because it's dark and fukking not being able to see cause I don't have eyesight.
At any rate, after a few seconds the sight came back and my vision was 100 times better. My vision was hazy, but my eyesight was great. He repeated the same thing with the other eye and that was it. He writes a prescription for you and you have somebody drive you home.

The doctor does give you those glasses and your eyes will be very sensitive to sun light. My advice is go get the prescription filled at once and wait at the pharmacy until it's filled. I messed up and left the prescription at the pharmacy and went home and went to sleep. When I woke up my eyes felt like they were on fire. They were watering and I couldn't open them for longer than a few seconds because of the sensitivity to the light..and this was in a "dark" room. The glasses helped, but once I made it back to the pharmacy and took my meds, I was cool. I went back to sleep and when I woke up I was good.

I would recommend getting the surgery between now and early winter because you can't rub your eyes at all for however many months and you don't wanna be dealing with that during spring if you have allergies.

How long were you guys out for? Seems like I would have to take a week off of work to do this

 

[Money Be Green]

rabbits have terrible eyesight

Compare rabbits to humans

 

[FaTaL]

Compare rabbits to humans

eat a carrot like rabbits and expect to have good eyesight

 

[Mowgli]

It wears off after a while.

Wait till they make the new shyt where they replace an entire layer of your eye with a lense.

Lasik dudes are prototype ass nikkas

 

[The ADD]

?

Yep

It was

A few small issues but I would do it again no question.

 

[Egomaniacal1]

How long were you guys out for? Seems like I would have to take a week off of work to do this

I already had a month or so off of work when I got mine done but I would guess they'd give you a written excuse to miss a few days or a week. After that first week tho the pain usually isn't bad enough to miss work and so you just have to keep wearing the eye protection to keep them from injury, dirt, etc...

 

[Dreamzeedream]

Yep

It was

A few small issues but I would do it again no question.

Few issues like what

 

[The ADD]

Few issues like what

Halo from lights at night and dry eyes. All very minor for the improvement.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Yall nikkas eyes suck cause you be on the computer all day.... I know this cause my vision is shytty my damn self.

Nah mines is from genetics. My mom and her brothers have shytty eyesight / need glasses... this is what happens when you let a cac into your bloodline.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

It wears off after a while.

Wait till they make the new shyt where they replace an entire layer of your eye with a lense.

Lasik dudes are prototype ass nikkas

Ikr... nikkas finna have eyesight like a hawk. Getting to see some phat ass a mile away

 

[Mowgli]

Ikr... nikkas finna have eyesight like a hawk. Getting to see some phat ass a mile away

ICL is the next level for vision correction.

Implantable collamer lens or ICL, called by its manufacturer Visian ICL, is a soft, flexible gel-lens used in refractive surgeries for the permanent correction of myopia (nearsightedness), made of a collagen copolymer material, named by combining "collagen" and "polymer".[1] The ICL procedure is a popular alternative to LASIK and PRK since it requires no removal of the corneal tissue and reportedly produces better visual results.[2][3]

The ICL procedure is a type of refractive surgery performed by an ophthalmologist in which the ICL is surgically implanted inside the eye, where it resides permanently. The ICL requires no maintenance after the procedure and functions very similarly to contact lenses in improving visual acuity.[3] For most patients, ICL provides permanent freedom from eyeglasses or contact lenses.