FAO Joe, Lasik

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03-28-2009, 03:10 AM
CatalystOfChaos

FAO Joe, Lasik

LoL thread jacking can be annoying for others.

I haven't looked into it again for a year or so... I'd love to get it done.

I know its outpatient, and that they shave off so little of the eye now that it can be done repeatedly throughout life, and that it lasts much longer without having to be redone (if you shell out the 2k or so for a good procedure).

We're just recovering out of a little windfall we had (I was unemployed for 3 months back in August-November), and now we (wife and I) are rebounding better than before. My new job is paying much better than my last job, its much more stable, I love the job, and I'm getting another raise and promotion in a month. (I'm a store manager for Clark's, the shoe company)

So I can start banking some of that excess money towards such things... definitely near the top of my list. Was your vision blurry for a day or so afterwards? I had heard that happens.
03-28-2009, 03:20 AM
prophetic_joe

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Originally Posted by CatalystOfChaos

LoL thread jacking can be annoying for others.

I haven't looked into it again for a year or so... I'd love to get it done.

I know its outpatient, and that they shave off so little of the eye now that it can be done repeatedly throughout life, and that it lasts much longer without having to be redone (if you shell out the 2k or so for a good procedure).

We're just recovering out of a little windfall we had (I was unemployed for 3 months back in August-November), and now we (wife and I) are rebounding better than before. My new job is paying much better than my last job, its much more stable, I love the job, and I'm getting another raise and promotion in a month. (I'm a store manager for Clark's, the shoe company)

So I can start banking some of that excess money towards such things... definitely near the top of my list. Was your vision blurry for a day or so afterwards? I had heard that happens.

Problem with it is the cost is subjective to how bad your eyes are. I was pretty blind and had astigmatism so I had to shell out $1,700 per eye for wavefront. I spared no expense though and went somewhere that i knew they did really good work. After one day I was seeing 20/15 out of one eye and around 20/25 or 20/30 out of the other. that is a huge improvement over the 20/500 or so that I was before. You can get good financing too though. I have 0% interest for 18 months so that helps quite a bit.

As far as blurry vision goes. I can see pretty well now but it still hasn't got to that crispness, they said with how bad my eyes were that could take awhile. I have fuzziness around the edges of things, mainly glowing things in the dark. right eye had quite a bit of edema so it's still getting there. I could see well enough to drive the next day though, night vision is still a little off though.
03-28-2009, 03:24 AM
CatalystOfChaos

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Originally Posted by prophetic_joe

Problem with it is the cost is subjective to how bad your eyes are. I was pretty blind and had astigmatism so I had to shell out $1,700 per eye for wavefront. I spared no expense though and went somewhere that i knew they did really good work. After one day I was seeing 20/15 out of one eye and around 20/25 or 20/30 out of the other. that is a huge improvement over the 20/500 or so that I was before. You can get good financing too though. I have 0% interest for 18 months so that helps quite a bit.

As far as blurry vision goes. I can see pretty well now but it still hasn't got to that crispness, they said with how bad my eyes were that could take awhile. I have fuzziness around the edges of things, mainly glowing things in the dark. right eye had quite a bit of edema so it's still getting there. I could see well enough to drive the next day though, night vision is still a little off though.

Ah, I don't have all those added problems, damned shame for you.

I have two different colored eyes, so they were worried it might be cancerous for a while, because heterochromia iridium (two different colored eyes) is a genetic defect and often indicative of other problems.

Instead, I just have poor vision. What exactly is wavefront?
03-28-2009, 03:27 AM
prophetic_joe

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Originally Posted by CatalystOfChaos

Instead, I just have poor vision. What exactly is wavefront?

It's a new imaging device they use to better map out all of your eyes individual imperfections to basically customize your procedure for your specific eyes.

http://www.allaboutvision.com/vision...stom_lasik.htm

Well sir off to bed for me.
03-28-2009, 03:29 AM
CatalystOfChaos

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Originally Posted by prophetic_joe

It's a new imaging device they use to better map out all of your eyes individual imperfections to basically customize your procedure for your specific eyes.

http://www.allaboutvision.com/vision...stom_lasik.htm

Interesting, I'll have to check it out.

My optometrist loves Lasik, just gotta wait till my eyes stabilize.

And 6 months ago, 18 months no interest was an option for me. 3 months of unemployment... yeah, gonna be fun trying to settle with the credit card companies and then rebuild.

I drive a 2006 Audi A4 Quattro, and I love the car and make monthly payments on it. I've never really paid late, so that looks good on the credit, but that's about it at the moment lol.