The Best Call I Ever Made

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I had Lasik about 8 or 9 years ago when I was 35 or 36. I had worn glasses since 5th grade and was tired of them. As I recall, my cost was around $1,600 for both eyes. It would have been cheaper but my left eye had a very bad astigmatism and had to be done on a special laser. I am more than happy with the results and just had my first eye exam since the surgery and was still 20/20. Unfortunatly time has caught up with me in the readers department and I do now use 1.25 readers. When I had the surgery done the asked me if I wanted the monovision, but I did not want to deal with depth perception problems so chose not to do it.

Some things to know. I do have slight halos around lights at night. They are not bad and certainly no worse than what I had before when not wearing my glasses. Also, as I found out later, the flap they cut to do the procedure never fully heals. It does seal and heal around the edge, but the whole flap never reattaches. I did have a touch up on the left eye about 6 months after the initial procedure. My most recent eye exam the doctor said he cant see the edge of the flap at all in the right eye, and can barely see it in the left eye.

I would do it again and Im sure the technology is even far better today than when my surgery was done. I had heard people say it would only last 5 years and then I would need glasses again. It has been nearly 10 and everything is just fine.