Anyone had laser eye surgery?

[Xenophon]

I'd like to say that I am starting to feel a little sick. This is due to the excessive use of the word 'flap' in this thread.

Eye flaps! Eurgh. Whatever next...

[expat]

Timberwolf's point is a major one for me: after about 40, the range of your vision reduces (as he says, it becomes closer to a fixed-focus camera). So if you have a good answer to the question, "where would you like your fixed focus set at?" then it might be for you. But you'll still need glasses or lenses for some things. Of course you could get one eye set for distance and one for reading: I'm doing the equivalent of that with my contacts and id does just feel like perfect vision. But I think I'll pass on the surgery, since I can't get perfect vision now; maybe when I was 20-something, it mught have got me a couple of decades of no glasses and no lenses.

BTW last I looked there was something like a 1.5% chance of significant problems, which seems like a little bit too much for me. And outside that are supposedly insignificant problems like having a halo round lights at night. I might not like that either.

[TykeMerc]

I'd like to say that I am starting to feel a little sick. This is due to the excessive use of the word 'flap' in this thread.

Eye flaps! Eurgh. Whatever next...

Yup when he described what they were going to do and then did it did make me squirm quite a bit and it was done under local and sedative not general anaesthetic too.

Post op he was back at work in a few days and had no gyp, I was impressed to be honest.

re the Light Halo issue he had that for about 6 months by which time it reduced to nothing, they had warned him that it was a common side effect.

[Mich the Tester]

And outside that are supposedly insignificant problems like having a halo round lights at night. I might not like that either.

Seeing as one of my hobbies is astronomy that would be a big problem. I'd be discovering new saturns every week.

[Xenophon]

Seeing as one of my hobbies is astronomy that would be a big problem. I'd be discovering new saturns every week.

[EternalOptimist]

A friend of mine lost an eye in a freak Canasta accident. When the surgeons told him it could be replaced , he had it installed on the tip of his left index finger instead.
He reckons it comes in very useful for checking whats in his pockets or under tables. Its done wonders for his sex life too.

[tay]

Mrs tay has had it done, she didnt divorce me, so either it didnt work, or I am as handsome as I thought I was.

[Mich the Tester]

Mrs tay has had it done, she didnt divorce me, so obviously it didnt work

Expensive waste of time then.

[OwlHoot]

Yep, I’ll stick to being a four eyes too; really, specs are a very minor inconvenience, so it isn’t worth even a tiny risk to the eyes to get this surgery done.

Exactly, and if it's only one eye all you need is a monocle

[Bob Dalek]

My optician says the jury's still out on it... I have excellent sight, so don't care... yet.