This will be a really personal post. So:
I Wear glasses somewhere around 20 years, may be a few less. And now I'm completely fed up with it, and want to make eye surgery to make my vision back to 100% (I wonder how that feels).
Currently I have -4 on one eye and -4.5 on other. That means that I can't drive without glasses, and can't walk without them too (well, with difficulties), and I hardly can recognize a person I know from three meters.
So, what do I want to ask.
I've been told that if after operation vision goes bad again it can be no longer corrected with lens or glasses. But I totally can't understand, why? And I feel fear about it anyway, cause being an artist I need three things: brain, arms and eyes.
Maybe some of you guys had this experience and can share some useful information "from the first hands"?:)
Thank you for watching:)
Love, Inber
I have 24y old, i live with glasses, the doctor say that all surgey on eyes have some negative thing and they can't garantie vision back to 100%
So please before you do anything go to more then one doctor
Hope you will be good
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Sure I will, but I just can't keep wearing glasses, they kill me:(
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Yeah i know and i feel it too, but you thank god some people they can't see anything, some people they can't walk
So it's ok and we are fine, when you feel bad think about people who are not ok then you will thanks god 1000time per day
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That's not the way I live. I think about improving on first place, optimistic vision. I don't think "It could be worse"
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I hope you will be fine and you get your vision back, speack to doctors and see what they say, don't gamble, eyes surgey not easy
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I'm thinking about it for already five years - totally not easy:)
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where are you from !!
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Ukraine
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I had lasik eye surgery almost 9 years ago and have had no issues. If your vision gets worse years later you can usually go back for a touch up. If not, glasses are always an option.
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Thank you, I hope it'll be fine with me too
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I have never heard about that fact that if your eyes go bad again it couldn't be fixed anymore with glasses or otherwise. That seems ridiculous. My brother had eye laser surgery, last year, and they fixed his -8 (yes ... -8) eyes pretty much to near perfection. And he has a 10 year guarantee (this is belgium btw), so if his eyes go bad again in this period, they'll fix them for free again. He's very very happy he did this.
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Thank you for sharing, sounds great:)
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I had lasik in 2003 at the Laser Eye Center. They cost a bit more at the time but it was worth it. I am finally thinking I may need a touch up after 14 years of being glasses free. Go for it but go somewhere with a good reputation and pay the extra!
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Of course I will not go to shaman's tent:)
So, the effect kept well for 14 years?
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Yes and I originally had -8.5, really near sighted. The next morning I had 20/15! Now I believe I have 20/40 at nearly 45 yrs old.
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Not sure what is 20/15?
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Hi @inber, I was once much more shortsighted than you and had to go to Harley St, London to have Laser Surgery as LASIK would not perform the operation as they told me I would be left with very thin corneas. I had both eyes done at the same time about 10 years ago and had better than 20-20 vision. I have never needed glasses or contact lenses since, as the deterioration in sight has been minor. I did get dry eyes at first and some pain in one eye occasionally, I also need to wear sunglasses in bright light as my eyes are more sensitive but it was the right choice for me. Pay for the most up to date technology, good luck 😉
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Thank you for sharing your experience!
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Jake Steiner claims that you can fix Myopia uses various methods over a long period of time. I've been able to get from -5.75 to -5.25 in about 1.5 years, and I'm about to transition down to -5.00.
Here's a podcast with Jake that summarizes the topic:
http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/building-better-vision-jake-steiner-96
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I still prefer surgery, but thank you for the tip:)
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Hi, my aunt made that kind of surgery 3 years ago and she didnt had any problems with it. But i think that you must consider that not all surgery centers are the same. Choose wisely and check them out before. Good luck.
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Thank you for your advice, I'll seek for the best for sure
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I have personal experience. As you know, I again wear glasses ... True, only when I drive a car.
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I know that:) But still fear:)
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I think that since I had this operation, the quality of medicine has improved.
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True, now I don't have to give birth first
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@RandySimor do you know the answer to this...or someone you know?
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Eye surgery - anyone with experience?
Thanks, coincidentally I also have been wearing glasses since I was 20 years old, when I was still in school. Actually I had eyes or nearsightedness since I was in grade 6, when I did not dare to wear glasses. And no money to buy glasses. After I entered the cottage learning religious knowledge, I was forced to wear glasses, because it was minus 3. my eyes are bad. When I was in college, there was information to do eye surgery in kuala lumpur. But I do not dare, for fear of total blindness. If you do the operation and the results of the operation succeed. Please inform me. I also want as others can see without glasses.
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Sure I'll inform you!
I'll do it if I will have no contraindications.
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thank and help me, sister
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My dad had a different issue, called glaucoma but he did choose the operation. If you ask me worth the risk. I dont think you will end up not to see. Is just me having a hunch
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Oh, you calmed me a bit, thank you:)
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i wear glasses 2.5-2.5 i fancy my self by buying the clip-on by CK :)) had it now for 6 years now, i have been sitting on it, dropping, hitting, ... still strong!! :)) been thinking of surgery now for as far as i can remember but too cautious and just taking my time :D...but i found out that you can restore your sight by exercising them on a daily basis along with a nutritious diet and you should see some results from the first exercise (personal experience) but i got lazy and wear my glasses again lol (there are plenty of youtube videos showing how. As for the operation, the younger you are the better also the blinder you are the better because it is relatively easy to correct wider focal distances that ever more smaller ones. Also I can tell you that they operate one eye at a time so if (God forbid) it goes wrong at first you can stop and apply for a role in The Pirate of the Dominicans the Aftermath
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OMG:) I also will be too lazy to do any diets or exercises:)
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I just got Lasik done yesterday!!
I am a fellow artist and let me say that it is a game changer. You see the world differently and it adds a lot of depth. Crazy experience, but so worth it if it gets you to 20/20 again. If you have any questions just ask. ;)
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At the moment- just one:) Does it hurt and how long does it takes?:)
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It painless really. Its about a 30 - 1:00 of uncomfortable feelings per eye. I was the guy that didn't think he could even do contacts so I am a sensitive eye person and it was something I could get through.
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And the operation itself - I heard it's only about few minutes on each eye?
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Yea, I'm sorry, thats what I meant. 30 secs to a minute per eye.
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So no suffering:) Do they fix an eye somehow?
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Yea they did for me.
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A former girlfriend had always work glasses or contact lenses. She was tired of the irritations that contacts caused her and she did not like wearing glasses outside of home. So she thoroughly researched laser correction. She like you was very nervous about doing it, because there are some cases where it does not work out. However, after doing so much research, what she concluded, is that the success is largely to do with the clinic and their approach. Now this is , I guess eight years or more ago now. So I do not remember what helped her choose the clinic.
So the fateful day arrived, and I went with her to the clinic. The whole thing was over much quicker than what I expected. When she came out, her vision was blurred, which was normal after such a procedure. So I had to help guide her home.
Once home, she lay on the couch for several hours, by this time it was night. Her vision was starting to clear up. She went to the window, and I will never forget this, she was startled, and exclaimed she could see the craters on the moon for the first time in her life.
I was shocked. I knew she had been short sighted, but I never knew she could not see the details of the moon. Now for the first time in her life she could. So for the rest of the evening she was like a little kid looking at everything, with new eyes.
She did have to use eyes drops for quite a while afterwards, but that eventually went away. Her eyesight is still tip top to this day.
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Craters?!?!? I can't see them even with glasses:( You totally convinced me, it really worths...
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Anja couldn't see them with glasses either.
All I can say is, just be very very thorough in your research and do heaps of comparisons like Anja did. Only when you find a clinic that you feel assured of, then go ahead.
Being there with Anja through her experience made me appreciate and realise, how much I take my own eyesight for granted. BTW, I'm an artist, a painter, so my sight is important to me.
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The same about me. I really need them, as well as brain and hands. All for painting:)
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paint, paint, paint... =)
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Craters, well the really big ones of course... even for me with good eyesight. So I'm not suggesting you will have Superman eyesight. =)
But there are heaps of details to see.
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Hi,
I've had eye surgery (both eyes!) back in January 2000!!! 17 years ago!!!
So far so good.
It was absolutely worth it.
Finally I could see without glasses and all of a sudden got rid of morning migraines that were torturing me my whole life. ☺
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Sounds like heaven!:) I hope it will be fine with me too, thank you for sharing your experience!:)
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Best of luck!
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Thank you so much!:)
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