[sellickbhoy]

I'm getting laser eye surgery a week on Friday!!!

no longer the intelligent harry potter look for me!!

anyone any horror tales about the procedure? or better still, something positive to say?

[HappyHippy]

As a dispensing optician, I've got to comment
Initially the proceedure was very complicated, and didn't have a huge successs rate, but in recent years since they've started using lasers it's come on in leaps and bounds. Very few people suffer complications and are back at work the following day, or day after. There's only one issue IMHO - if your prescription tends to increase year on year this will continue to happen after the surgery, so you may find yourself in the position, a few years down the line, when you need to get glasses again or have more surgery ? If your prescription's fairly stable and doesn't change much then you won't. Also, as far as I know, it has no effect on presbyopia (needing spex for reading in your mid-late 40's) as this is to do with the lens inside your eye, instead of the surface curve of your cornea (which is what the surgery corrects)
Hope that helps ?
Karen

[jameslindsay]

I know 5 people that have had the procedure and all are delighted by the proccess and success. I even hear that Philip Schoffield had his eyes done on the This Morning programme last week and he too has pleased with the results. Good luck.

[doganjo]

A freind of mine had it done a couple of years ago with such success that her husband who is a big daft fearty has had his done too.

[RUSTYME]

having worn glasses since I was 6 , thats 46 years now ....I am sick to death of specs. I did wear contacts years ago, but the whole routine drove me bonkers, not to mention the cost . I would have laser treatment in a flash (no pun intended but a good one anyway !!! ), but I just can't afford it . Maybe when they bring it down to £20 an eye and you go to a diy machine in the chemists.....er well maybe not !!!!
 Good luck with it , don't take any notice of the stories about eyes getting burnt out , or the retina getting zapped by the laser . Don't listen to anybody that says it shrinks your eyes either !!! all should be fine . Funny how a guide dogs for the blind shop, is right next to a laser surgery place in town  ? , lots of people work in both places too .. always a big stream of people coming from the laser place the the gdfb !!!!

 I have only heard good things really , just wish I could get shot of my bottle bottoms, I am as blind as a bat without them !! Anyway good luck Blind Pew ....er SB

cheers

Russ

[jameslindsay]

Well it must be considered safe if Russ hasn't posted pages and pages of information telling of the dangers. Ha ha, no offence Russ 

[RUSTYME]

oh just you wait mate ... in the middle of downloading a heap of info ..... .... no I have really only heard good about it now . I would go for it today if I had the cash  !!!

now where are those links ...? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TmeBd9338

is it safe ? ...mmmm.... is it safe ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5Qk-jB0D4

cheers

Russ

[sellickbhoy]

Well it must be considered safe if Russ hasn't posted pages and pages of information telling of the dangers. Ha ha, no offence Russ 

ha ha ha ha you read my mind - never a more surefire endorsement than if Rusty hasn't got pages of proclaimations of doom for anyone using the procedure

I hear Monsanto own the technology and they program the brain to only buy GM foods once you've had it done!!!

[doganjo]

 

[RUSTYME]

no they don't do anything of the sort ... thats just being silly .... what they do is they  burn your eyes out, so you that can't read whether it is GM or not !!!!  Don't you know nuffing ? 

cheers

Russ

[doganjo]

 

You are just great Rusty!

[sandy]

Maybe you should/do work for Mi5 whoooooooops...now whatever I say will  be recorded and analized, they may think I am writing in code....just me, doing silly things I am afraid!!

[cmorrell]

I've been paying a lot of attention to laser surgery options. I can't tell you how many times I've dropped my glasses or almost broken the stalks by holding them too tight when I take them off so I can take a photo ... but then there's the fear that if I'm unlucky enough to be one of those very few people who suffer problems, I'm absolutely humped 

[sandy]

Back to reality, I too would love to have my eyes sorted, I have a prescription pair and some off the counter readers placed near the computor and it is so annoying having to put them on and off all the time to see things, as they are vari focals I sometimes find they "narrrow" my vision if worn walking around, can make me a bit dizzy too.. not sure if it works for very long on age related sight problems? I worked with a lady who nearly lost her sight from an infection from contact lenses, so there is always that chance as with any surgery, not so nice when it affects you though!! 

[milly molly]

i had mine done about 10yrs ago give or take, best thing i've ever done, little bit of dry eyes for the first year or so first thing in the morning and first month or so halo's arround lights, couple of girls at work had the more up to date procedure and didnt have dry eyes etc and minimal pain. they were doing an interest free payment scheme when i got mine, paid it up over a couple of years, no probs.
best of luck

Mandy