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To: Kevin in California

I did when I was 30 and was glad I did. As I got older, in my mid 40s, I started going farsighted and needed reading glasses as my lenses hardened up, happens to everyone. If you’re close to that age you might get advice not to have it done but if you have severe astigmatism lasik works better than corrective lenses to address it.

I’m not sure what they call it but try to get the type of procedure that doesn’t cause the starring of bright lights at night due to the scaring of some types of lasik treatment procedures. I think it’s called “wavefront” but the doctor will be able to tell you all about that.

Good luck!


10 posted on 07/02/2024 7:14:26 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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Two of my kids had it 15+ years ago (when they were about 25 and 30).I was a little worried because at the time there wasn’t much data on whether or not problems might crop up later, but they’ve both been fine. My daughter initially went to a doctor that was advertising the procedure on the radio in the SF Bay Area, but there were some red flags and she opted to pay more to go to a different doctor. (At her first appt with the first guy, she spent her time in the waiting room correcting the typos and grammatical errors on the intake form. At the second appt, the doctor said something not confidence-inspiring about his assistant, and she was out of there.)


14 posted on 07/02/2024 7:22:39 PM PDT by Kipp
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