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Originally Posted by dugnsuz
I've always worried about the procedure - my job involves looking down a microscope daily, screening for +/- malignancy in cells - if anything went wrong my immediate livelihood would be gone too. So I've been wary.
Good to hear you've had a good experience with it Mike. How long were your eyes 'out of action' ie not 100%?
Doug
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Common concern you express there Doug and I too was aprehensive but there are more complications that cause eye damage from the wearing of contact lenses than from Lasik surgery - it's like the old scared of flying but don't think twice about getting in a car conondrum
. Once it's done you wont know yourself. My wife was a practise manager of a laser eye clinic and in two and a half years and many hundreds of eye surgeries they had only one serious complication which although pretty distressing for the individual they did eventually make a good recovery. I had good inside information that made me pretty well informed
Although a little watery, I could see instantly after getting off the laser, my surgeon did both eyes in one sitting so in about 20min I could see 100% perfectly
it was amazing. My eyes felt a little scratchy - like the feeling you might have say 10min after you poke yourself in the eye with your finger but it was gone the next day. It was a bit like living in a fish bowl initially everything was so clear and sharp (no dirty glass) until my brain got used to not having the
looking through a window effect that glasses give.
So far 10 years on all is ok, although I still have slight residual astigmatism that the laser couldn't fully correct - I could get glasses to correct for this just so I can see the very faintest stars in the sky naked eye but it has no effect on eyepiece viewing at the scope. I notice the astigmatism when viewing images at a standard sitting distance from my computer screen that have tiny stars, they are elongated but this is the same for anyone with astigmatism and moving my eyes closer to the screen fixes it.
Mike