has anybody had lasik before!!!

get the surgery. my dad had it done 9 years ago and actually was reading the small scroll headers across the tv that first night.i assume that the technology has increased 100 times since then and it was great back then. they did one eye at a time back then. he had worn bifocals almost his entire life and after the surgery,bye bye glasses. he still carried them with him out of pure habit i suppose.

best of luck.

 

My aunt started getting the precursors to lasik back in the early 80's. Same concept, but before they had lasers, so they just used scalpels instead. She went through half a dozen of those surgeries over a decade, and by the time lasik came around, her eyes were too scarred for the treatment, and she still wears coke bottle glasses.

My mom got lasik as her first astigmatism correction in 1998, and was back to reading glasses in 2005, and a mild prescription for distance vision by 2007.

I've had astigmatism so bad I couldn't so much as walk down the street since I was 13. I've had about 4 pairs of glasses in the last 10 years, and I can do just about anything but swim or shower in them. Sure, there are dents and grooves all over my head from wearing glasses, but I don't see a real reason to get lasik. In fact, when I get a new pair of glasses made next year, they'll be shatter resistant, polarized, and auto-shading with side-shields, so I never have to put safety glasses (required #### near everywhere when you pull a flatbed) or sunglasses over my prescription lenses again.

 

Had mine done like 10 years ago. There's 2 versions one where they slice a layer lift it up and cut the eye to reshape it. The problam with that one is if the flap doesnt heal properly itll screw up your night vision. Second is instead of lifting the flap they scrape it off and then reshape the eyes. This one is the best for drivers. Down side healing time is longer i was out of work 4 weeks. And the second day your eyes felt like they where on fire. I paid about $3500 but so worth it. After it heald go redo dot physical then get your cdl updated.

 

Had it done about the time TruckDuo had his/hers done, early 2000s. And it was about the same price they quoted. When finished my eyesight was 20/15 without glasses and the actual surgery took less than five minutes. Amazing what they could do. For about a week a side effect they warned me about was "starburst" (or some such name) where headlights coming at you at night would cause - hard to describe - a brief haze of colors - but this went away. Pretty cool while it lasted though lol. I did notice my night vision didn't seem as good and this is something that continues to this day, and I seem to require more light to do reading, especially small print. But I don't regret for a minute having it done. I was always breaking/losing glasses, fumbling around for them first thing in the morning, where did I leave them?...fogging up when going from hot outside to A/C or vice versa...slipping down my nose when getting sweaty, a hundred things. Don't miss glasses a bit.

If you have it done - and a good doctor will tell you this up front - it is not a permanent fix. Over time the eyeball and your "lens" changes shape, so some "adjustments" might have to be made to keep that good vision. I'm coming up on fifteen years and so far so good. I'd do it again in an instant.

One other thing - in some cases, depending on your specific vision problem, the doctor might recommend doing only one eye if you have your heart set on the surgery, which gives you what they call "monovision". Monovision is where you use only one eye for distance and the other eye for close-up stuff. Your brain automatically makes the adjustment, and people I've talked to that had it done said they never notice a difference in switching from one eye for close work to the other eye for distance. Only thing is, on my medical card long form it says in bold print Monocular drivers are not qualified. So if this is the only lasik you qualify for and you want to drive a commercial vehicle it might be safer to stick to glasses.

 

LASIK - one thing for sure is you do not want - MONO-LASIK - that is where you can read with one eye and use the other to drive.

correct only one eye you can see long distance, so forget Mono-Vision-Lasik surgery if you are a driver, you will still need readers
for just 1.00 power to read from a close range most likely, but your long distance is 20/20 .. after lasik surgery.

When you get Mono Lasik - your eye can only see as far as a computer screen clearly - beyond that you can not see, right you are
blind in THAT Mono Reading eye for driving.

* Professional Drivers do not get Mono Lasik surgery.