Custom Lasik Procedure Yesterday
 

All I can say is...WOW. Less than 18 hours ago I had 20/800+ vision and the PITA that contacts and glasses bring along with them. Today it is around 20/20 to 20/15. I still have some haziness and halos around bright light (like my monitor screen, for example), but, once again, WOW. If this pans out like I have been led to expect, it's probably going to be the best $4k (both eyes) I ever spent.

I went with the Custom over the Standard Lasik because of my age, my fairly aggressive astigmatism and the better mapping characteristics. I also chose to stay within my optometric group because, well, I think the world of them, my doctor in particular (and he drives a 550i, so he can't be bad, right?). The Custom Lasik was an additional $800, but priceless, IMO (Standard Lasik was $3,200). My doctor has been labelled a "perfectionist" by those I spoke to about him. When he did his post-op review, first eye..."perfect," he said. Second eye..."perfect!" So it's safe to say I'm a little optimistic.

I woke up this morning and reached over for my glasses out of habit, and then realized after being able to read the clock, that I didn't need them. That was a real, ummmmm, eye-opener ;)

I will post updates as the healing continues. If you're on the fence, based on my experience thus far, I highly recommend checking into it.

Mike

That's great. Contacts and glasses are a pain. I've been thinking about doing it. My doc says I'm a perfect candidate. I'm just not too keen on someone screwing around with my eyes. Keep us posted Mike!

Good to read, D8!

Glad it was so successful...I've been wearing glasses since
1956 and I'm fookin tired of them; trying to screw up my
courage and, tap the dough to do it. Good to hear it went
so well for you...here's looking at ya!
GL,mD

My wife had it done a couple years ago, and has been thrilled with the results, too. Good decision!

Congrats Mike! My dad did this at 80 and he doesn't wear glasses anymore - looks like a totally different guy!

Congrats, Mike! I had mine done in October 2005 and have loved every second ever since! The hardest part was not being able to wear eye make-up 3 days prior to and 7 days after surgery! :yikes:

BTW...Aren't you supposed to stay away from the computer screen for at least 24 hours? :confused:

I had it done when it first came out, in 2001-2002 I guess. Bad decesion. They screwed up. Before, I had no trouble reading. Well, they fixed my vision problem, but created reading problems. So now I have reading glasses, but no normal glasses.

The several guys I know that have had it done, (all men;weird), all
have had to go to reading glasses after the healing finally settled.

These were all older guys like me that could still read fine print w/out
glasses but can't see much past arm's length. I think I would trade
my crummy distance vision and toss the specs in exchange for some
reading glasses...I just get nervous and figure I'll be one of those
2% ers that it does not work or, screws up on.

It's 2007 now. I'm sure the failure rate has dropped substancially since when it first came out.
The chances of screwing up now are pretty low.
Go for it!

what is the healing time for this I really want to get it done but I do a lot of sports in the summer so I dont want to risk losing that ability for all or a large part of my summer and I also don't want to injure my eyes because of wakeboarding or something