Laser Eye Treatment

As a contact lense wearer, I am becing increasingly frustrated that once every 3 months or so I get a painful bout of conjunctivitus...

A bit of treatment and waering glases for a week cures it... however I have become increasingly intersted in laser treatment to rid myself of all this lenses and glasses faff

Has anyone had it done.. I heard some rumors about it dulling the eyes and them loosing there Human glint?

so oh mighty org what does thow knowest?

I am aware it doesnt work all the time, I am aware it is a cosmetic surgery and as such doesnt last forever... My eyesight isnt that bad comparativly -1.25 & -1.50 I am aware its pricey but i am paying £13 a month for lenses and a week or pain whenever they get poorly..


Cheers

Alex

My team leader at work had it done- she's well chuffed.

Dunno about the glint thing- never noticed that.

Apparently, it can be good for 40 years, depending on your eyes. I'd love to have it done myself.

my eyes require lenses at -3.75 and -2.75

i'd rather have my balls crushed with a housebrick than have eye surgery. one mistake and that's it. ok a horror and an extreme reaction but i'd rather put lenses in my eyes for the rest of my born days than to not see at all...tis my biggest fear, blindness.

How many optometrists do you know who have had it done? I considered it myself at one stage but was told I would still need glasses for reading as my prescription was over the limits for 100% corrective surgery

I know people who've had it done, and some say it was the best thing they ever did, and some have continuing problems.

The thing that worries me (apart from having people poking round with my eyes) is what happens when your vision naturally changes as you get older?

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by keithd

i'd rather have my balls crushed with a housebrick than have eye surgery. one mistake and that's it. ok a horror and an extreme reaction but i'd rather put lenses in my eyes for the rest of my born days than to not see at all...tis my biggest fear, blindness.

+1..........although I don't actually have balls, and I can't wear contact lenses. Glasses will do me just fine, thank you

My brother had it done. He was in pain for two weeks but his vision is now almost perfect, and he is very happy not to have to mess around with glasses or contacts.

I'd have had laser surgery if I'd had a choice.

What sort of contact lenses are you wearing? That might be your problem....

I was about -5 in both eyes and a bit eggy shaped in one.
I allso had eye pain bouts and walking from hot to cold and A/C even freezers, it was just a pain. My glasses had nice frames, tinted because of the work i do. hardend and tempered also for the work and last but not least the glasses had to be thined down because of the wieght.
Each set cost about 900 pounds.
Plus contacts,
Plus sunglasses for when using contact
plus the every 2 year check up.
So my glasses got broken about 10 years ago in Ft Lauderdale FL. off to the eye shop.
I want the lazer thingy.
Both eyes at once done. cost 5000 dollers. took 10 mins. I was driving about the next day and I get free life check ups.
And Im now -.2 which as I get old should become 0
Chaffed. bugger me yes
I can swim, dive, sucba, and see. I think it gave a lot of my life back to me after all I have a big problem just being a red head.

[husky03]

one of the guys at work had it-went 100% with one eye but with the other he moved and ended up doing some damage-his eye was in a bad way for a while and he couldn't ride his bike-only had his zx6r for three weeks-two months later after eye drops everyday he was allowed on his bike-seems ok now