Should I get lasik?

You don't have to get the flap, your healing period is just longer and more uncomfortable. I think in the long run it's a better decision since a car wreck can detach it.

No

It's too new to know the long term effects. We don't have enough people who got it young and are now elderly to know how it affects their eyesight as they age.

Hold off on it until more is known/it is refined. Being short sighted isn't that big a deal anyway.

>be 24 year old in college
>go for first eye exam since 13
>optomitrist discovers weird discoloration, doesn't know wtf it is
>sends me to specialist, he has no idea too, gets the most senior guy in
>recognises it as a "retinal cyst", extremely rare to actually see one apparantly
>basically the black eye I got in highschool detached my retina, but it was only partial so never affected my eyesight
>they send me to surgery saying it would probably never get worse but best to be sure
>nurse fucks something up and my pupil stops working
>I have a permanently 100% dilated left pupil now

I fucking have filipino nurses

Fuck off idiot. YOU have no idea how it works. Vision correction has been going on since the late 80's.

>since the late 80s

You just proved my point, retard.

caught the bowie eye senpai

I wish it was that good. It's literally fully dilated, as in my entire left eye is black except a tiny tiny blue outline which is what's left of my iris.

pic related

its just as good, the only difference is that you aren't bowie. The eye is just the same.
I've always wondered, how does the perma-dilated eye see? do you have night vision?

Shit gets really blurry during the day. It is very hard to read phone/computer screens unless you turn the brightness down a lot. Basically your eye can't reduce the size of your pupil like it normally does to exess light so that brightness reduces your eyesight considerably.

So is no one going to point out that this bitch has a disgusting happy trail?

If you are too young it can degenerate again, so best age is around 30

Yes. But that's that PRK is for. PRK is the older form of Lasik that most military position will make you get. There is no flap in that version of the procedure. But it takes a lot longer to heal and it's also incredibly painful (takes about a week for the pain to subside enough that you don't need morphine eyedrops anymore). Hence 95% of people go with lasik instead of PRK.

If you do any sort of contact sports or fighting in a job you need to get PRK instead of lasik.

My eyes aren't degenerate. Your mother's open-door cunt policy is degenerate.

Anybody got advice for if you see halos/flares when you drive at night? I'm too young for this shit PLEASE tell me there's a surgery for this

Clean your windshield, inside and outside.

See if that makes things better

This user gets it. I used to work for a Lasik company that handed out free Lasik if you worked there for 3 months. The catch was you didn't quit right after but even then I still didn't get it

Hijacking this thread for a sec
I got prescribed glasses yesterday and I can't wear contacts or get lasik because it's minor and I only wear them at the computer and while driving

What are some non cuck non nu male frames?

I did PRK at 19, which is without cutting the flap. It's endorsed by the US navy and shit but it fixed me up for good. When I tested after recovery I was at 20/15 vision (better than optimal) and when I tested again 2 years later I was still at 20/20. It's more recommended for younger people because it's less invasive than lasik. Would easily recommend

PS im not in the navy I'm just saying they prefer that over other methods and will subsidize the surgery

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PRK is sweet, would do again.

How old are you? What fault have you got?

I've had iLasik done 2 years ago at 22. Some of the best spent money in my life. I've had -1.5 and about -2.

If you decide to get it done go for the most advanced method and pick someone experienced to do it.

I got LASIK done about 4 months ago. Going from having to fuck around with contact lenses and solution all the time was great. Dry eyes for a couple weeks (used eyedrops about 2x daily) but it's much better now.

Vision is 20/20 now. I didn't pick a meme doctor though, got it done by a real professional.

Tfw cant make out faces from far away

for reference my vision was about 20/500 prior to surgery

Why are her toes also tied? What does that accomplish?

I have the same problem at night if I dont wear my glasses every light in the distance has that starburst effect its fucked. Get your eyes tested before it gets worse

Anyone else gonna wait 5-10 years for those permanent contact lenses?

>Risking eye infection from wearing contact lenses

> People haven't grown old to see what happens yet
> Wait to grow old yourself and then see what happened to everybody else and see if you should have gotten it 50 years ago or not

I got PRK and there was no pain. Recovery was a pain in the ass. Scheduled mine during a company's Christmas shutdown period + an additional two weeks of vacation time. Didn't need a full month off to heal, but fuck it. Came out real nice.

I read that was the safest long term, within regards to impacts. Something about Lasik that requires a cut to the lens of the eye which weakens it, so if you are involved in a heavy impact to that area it can fuck up your eye. Say a car accident or a punch to the face. PRK merely requires a small hole and a longer healing time.

Did you get reimbursed for that or no? Because that sounds like something that would fall under malpractice

I feel like you guys got surgery done quite young. I was always told you should wait till at least 25/26. Am i wrong here it did you guys just take a gamble?

Eyesight usually settles by 18-20 so it's possible to do the operation then.
My clinic would take only people over 20 or 21.
If your prescription hasn't settled in for at least a year then you should wait until it does.

I'd never get it done. Thankfully my eyes aren't that bad to the point where I have to wear glasses all the time, I can get through the day comfortably without strugging unless I have to read something at a distance.

I have to legally wear them when I drive though since I can't read number plates at the right distance.

The reason why I wont get it done is because I personally know a girl who had it done and they fucked her eyes up. She wasn't blinded but they apparently made it a lot worse and they were like "Oh don't worry, you can keep coming back for free for corrections, that's part of the package". She has been back FOUR TIMES now and it has only just returned to the level she was at before.

>started wearing contacts instead of glasses several years ago
>everyone would say I look better in glasses
this is why I haven't had lasik. plus the dry eye thing

t. ugly guy

If you don't look like a cuck numale right now, most glasses that aren't tortoiseshell faggot shit will look fine.

I'm 5 months out from Prk, opted for prk to avoid ll the never healing flap since I do a lot of dumb shit in the middle of no where. Eyes are still a little dry and my vision is just about 20/20 and still getting better. Costed me just under 3k out the door.

Highly recommended

Stop having astigmatism.
it fucks with holographic and red dot sights as well