I have considered lasik in the past, especially since contacts hurt my eyes and I am frustrated with glasses. I agree we should be told this beforehand, informed consent and all that.
This was really interesting! I have severe myopia and have worn glasses/contacts since I was a toddler. Not a candidate for simple LASIK but wasn't interested in PRK either .. it scared me! Am correctable to 20/20 thankfully but I do love taking my glasses off and truly seeing ... very close up obviously but incredible detail! always always loved this ability. would miss it with laser correction!
1. Yeah, eventually. I hadn’t had any signs of it even at 50-ish when I did LASIK though. I could still see meso-scale stuff brilliantly on the rare contact-less moments.
2. Ah. Well, you should be good for LONGER. (And, how do you like that??)
50 is very good - perhaps you were a bit nearsighted?
The monovision? I like it a lot. For many (many - I was a LASIK early adopter) years, I have not needed glasses for driving, nor for reading. I still don't expect to need glasses for years to come.
I'm over 50 and have far sighted issues normal for age. but can still see close up just as before with no correction. not sure why. my eyes are pretty strangely shaped tho.
I have considered lasik in the past, especially since contacts hurt my eyes and I am frustrated with glasses. I agree we should be told this beforehand, informed consent and all that.
This was really interesting! I have severe myopia and have worn glasses/contacts since I was a toddler. Not a candidate for simple LASIK but wasn't interested in PRK either .. it scared me! Am correctable to 20/20 thankfully but I do love taking my glasses off and truly seeing ... very close up obviously but incredible detail! always always loved this ability. would miss it with laser correction!
Interesting, but I'm not sure I quite follow.
1. Doesn't presbyopia deprive most people of this meso scale world by the time we're 50, even without LASIK or contacts?
2. I got monovision LASIK - one eye corrected for distance, one eye remaining nearsighted. Am I good?
1. Yeah, eventually. I hadn’t had any signs of it even at 50-ish when I did LASIK though. I could still see meso-scale stuff brilliantly on the rare contact-less moments.
2. Ah. Well, you should be good for LONGER. (And, how do you like that??)
50 is very good - perhaps you were a bit nearsighted?
The monovision? I like it a lot. For many (many - I was a LASIK early adopter) years, I have not needed glasses for driving, nor for reading. I still don't expect to need glasses for years to come.
I'm over 50 and have far sighted issues normal for age. but can still see close up just as before with no correction. not sure why. my eyes are pretty strangely shaped tho.
Nearsighted people retain their close vision to older ages. Totally normal.