Not to say that you did not have a bad experience, but for people 40+ who naturally get prespiopia, this is normal...unless you choose the "monovision" approach, that is, having one eye corrected differently than the other...I have a neighbor in his 60s who had this done and he can read a cell phone at night without glasses. I had PRK (see below) done but did not choose monovision...they want to go in and tweak my right eye (left is 20/20, right is 20/50) and I may choose to have it corrected monovision...at lot of folks don't do this because when they dummy up what it will initially feel like in pre-op, the tendency is to shy away, forgetting, as my neighbor said, that the brain adjusts in short order and you no longer perceive the different inputs from each eye. I went from being near sighted and astygmatic to needing reading glasses...but I love the sharp distance vision for sports, etc.

Lasik is where they slice a small flap prior to letting the laser do its thing. PRK, is where they actually chemically abrade the thin layer of cells covering the cornea, then laser it, then put contacts on your eyes for a few days to heal those cells...this way there is no flap that can ever detach under force...all military and sports people do PRK...this also, I am told it reduces halowing. The laser by the way is a highly sophisticated machine that instantly pauses in the event the target area moves (say you sneeze, or whatever). This is not a laser like you see cutting steel on the Discovery Channel.

Also, you will not lose a "large part of" any sports season as you can be back at sports within 2 weeks, 10 days being the very minimum, but 30 is preferred.

PS Anybody with a BCBS PPO has a discount built in to their policy.

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