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To: Jamestown1630

If you can fix your vision with contacts or glasses, I’d go for that. Not a good idea to inflict unnecessary surgery on any body part, but especially the eyes.


28 posted on 05/16/2024 8:35:09 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

I agree that surgery on a perfectly good body part should be avoided, and received that advice from my ophthalmologist who was a family friend in the early 80s when I asked him about RK surgery. My eyes were very bad, chart on the wall was a blur without glasses or hard contact due to high astigmatism. A few years later the Dr. Accepted that RK was working well and so I got it done. Wonderful for about 4 years. Then in graduate school with lots of reading my eyes reverted and got nearly as bad as before the RK, which I now consider the most shortsighted decision in my life. Pun intended, while true. LASIK appears to have stood the test of time, at least much longer effectiveness and not nearly the am age. I can’t have LASIK now as my eyes have too much scarring. The good news is soft Toric lenses now work quite well for my astigmatism.

If I could have LASIK I would, but not if I could function with a light prescription.


45 posted on 05/16/2024 9:30:28 PM PDT by LibertyOh
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