That's the plan. I do wonder, though, that since the optometrist is relying to such an extent on the feedback from the patient if you'd ever get the same results from different optometrists.

Thanks everyone for your replies.

 

Amen.

 

This same phenomenon happended with my Dad.....vision improved after 50

I'm lucky to only need correction at middle and long distance.....my near vision is very good. I don't need my specs to read books or the computer monitor so my glasses often reside propped up on my forehead

 

I know several people that have had it done, all successful . . . except for two. The two are much worse off than before. So, I wouldn't do it if you gave me another s2k as incentive. And as my eye doc said, long term results have not yet been proven. He also said he wouldn't let his dog have the surgery.

 

My brother-in-law just had it done. It was supposed to take 15 minutes. He said they were about 10mins into the procedure when the surgeon said "Oh, oh, this doesn't look good".

It turned out his problem was a lot more complicated than his doctor had thought, and he spent the next week lying around his house wearing a couple of towels over his eyes, as the slightest amount of light was unbearable.

He's happy with the results now, but still has flaring/halos at night.

I'm not convinced. I think I'll keep my contacts for now.

 

^^ I've been told several times I'm a good candidate for the surgery because my main problem was always nearsightedness. However, as I've now matured, the nearsightedness has improved (as it customarily does). I only need glasses for distance, so I use monovision (one contact lense for distance and a different strength lense in the other eye for reading). I love it. I'd rather not have an elective surgery. Several people I know have been happy with the outcome, but two of my friends went through torment after the surgery and came soooo close to losing an eye. I decided dealing with glasses/contacts are less of a problem that dealing with surgery. I'll wait until I'm really old and have to have cataract surgery. My mom's done super with hers and doesn't even need glasses anymore and she's considerably older than I am and would kill me if I post her age.

 

I thought about Lasix awhile back, but opted against it. My vision is not that bad, and I would have had to trade distance improvement for reading glasses. Since I don't wear reading glasses now, I wasn't willing to make that trade. After age 40, the chance you will need reading glasses is very high if you have the surgery.

 

Just the thought of surgery on my eyes gives me the willies. Even if I were a candidate for it I don't think I'd have it done. I'll stick with my glasses.

 

I'm the same way about contact lenses. It's all I can do to put eye drops in my eyes. I have to put the dropper in one corner or the other so I can't see what's going on.

 

I've worn corrective lenses since I was 28 years old. My distant vision has been slowly improving the last ten years and a little over a year ago I retook the eye exam for my drivers license and passed without corrective lenses. I'll be 62 in October. Of course YMMV.