Flippin' "lasers"

SkeeterPSA said:
Is it still the same with the eye being cut on the pupil still or is this avoidable now?
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Intralase LASIK uses a laser to create the flap but they still use a microkeratome version to cut the flap if you don't want to pay the extra. With the blade though, they can't tailor the flap to your eye, and the flap is also thicker.

LASEK doesn't cut anything.
 
It's defiantly worth having done. I had my done at Optical Express at the Trafford Centre, I also had Intralase with Wavefront, no pain at all.

Which surgeon did you have?
 
Makes me appreciate the vision I take for granted.

Never needed any glasses and hopefully never will.

The rest of my family have glasses but only for reading which they very rarely use anyway.
 
Ricochet J said:
Which surgeon was it? I'll give him your regards when I see him Friday/Sat :)
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Dimitri Kazakos. Funny guy actually, his slight arrogance translated into me feeling confident in his abilities. When he looked at my eye afterwards, one of them had a tiny piece of lint between the flap and the eye, so he had to lift the flap back up and remove it (painless as the aneasthetic was still working and he gave me more drops in any case). He said something like 'this is where we earn our money'.

Of course the things going through your head before the procedure, dwarf anything approaching reality in the actual event.

It was painless, relaxing, and professional.
 
Btw why is it so much money, didnt they used to offer on tv or somit 300 per eye or somit which is far more money than id ever have being on benefit. So thousands would be impossible or take 10 years to save up.

Plus 50 quid or less for glasses or thousands, seems clear what ill be doing for years. Shame but its rather crap for people who dont get much money, tis a rich peoples only treatment for now. Hope this gets reduced to hundread or so for both eyes good treatment in the future. Or stick it on the NHS or somit.
 
Freefaller said:
No I couldn't clear the red tape so I got sea bass instead. :(
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As long as they were angry, mutated sea bass, that's OK :)

Robbie G said:
When he looked at my eye afterwards, one of them had a tiny piece of lint between the flap and the eye, so he had to lift the flap back up and remove it (painless as the aneasthetic was still working and he gave me more drops in any case). He said something like 'this is where we earn our money'.
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My eyes are watering at the thought as I read that!
 
Awesome news. I had mine done last year in the same clinic and it's been great.
 
I should tell my mother about this, she had it done over 10 years ago and never got the other eye done it was so painful. Seems it has come a long way since.
 
Feek said:
My eyes are watering at the thought as I read that!
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:D When he said it, my stomach sank, as in my mind I had prepared myself for no more grotesque eye tampering and being on the beginning of the road to recovery. However it was equally painless and no more unpleasant than the actual procedure.
 
I wear glasses and have done since I was in Year 10 at school so about 10/11 years. I'm also deaf so being able to get rid of glasses would be fantastico. Might be worth saving up for and seeing if I can get my eyes fixed.

I HATE having to clean my glasses all the time because they get dirty, or when I get sweaty and beads of sweat abseil from my forehead onto the lenses. That and when it rains I can't see. Would love to be able to wake up in the morning and see 100% WITHOUT having to reach for specs. :)
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Btw why is it so much money, didnt they used to offer on tv or somit 300 per eye or somit which is far more money than id ever have being on benefit. So thousands would be impossible or take 10 years to save up.

Plus 50 quid or less for glasses or thousands, seems clear what ill be doing for years. Shame but its rather crap for people who dont get much money, tis a rich peoples only treatment for now. Hope this gets reduced to hundread or so for both eyes good treatment in the future. Or stick it on the NHS or somit.
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You can go for the cheaper treatments which comes to less than £900 for both eyes... but my thinking is, it's my eyes, I need them, I want the best for them so went for the best treatment. Wavefront is the best technology they can offer for best vision correction with minor to no side effects.

I've been wearing glasses for 15 years and I've spent well over £3000 for glasses, contacts and consultations in these 15 years.

If I can have even 10 years of perfect vision it's paid for itself pretty much.

Besides, it's having the freedom of no glasses or needing to wear contacts and just being able to see without any aid. I can now wear sunglasses in the summer without contacts or them being prescription, which means that when I go inside I don't have to swap glasses, I can take 'em off. It means in the cold when walking into a hot building/room my glasses don't steam up. I don't have a fear of losing a contact lens, or have to worry about cleaning them and going to bed with them, no protein build up in the eye... I have clear vision and it's something I haven't had for 15 years, and it's incredible.

grudas said:
are the eye drops permanent or temporary while the eye heals?
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Just for the week. You take an anti inflammatory one, and an antiseptic one. Then just eye doprs to keep your eyes moist, but mine aren't suffering any dryness issues. :) You have a post op consultation, then one in a week, then a month.
 
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