Laser eye surgury?

Hmmm, well my dad is an eye doctor he said to have laser eye surgery and not have glasses afterwards, you would have to be near sighted around -1 to -7. Otherwise you would still need glasses. Hope that helps you.

 

Ive always wondered about laser surgery, cant do anythign about it right now, but my eyes might be to bad anways they were like 20/200 and 20/250 when i had them checked last about 5-6 years ago, and getting noticebly worse still :/

 

The only bad things I've heard about it is that you can't be a pilot and you can't go in submarines cause of the pressure. I saw a pic in flight school of a German guy who went up in a fighter after that surgery and his eye ruptured. Not cool at all. I'm probably going to get it for my wife, I'm just nervous about the side effects and all since it's relatively new.

 

I've known people that were legally blind and have done it and all was good.
Also...If memory serves, Bretta also had the operation, you could ask her and Schrike how things panned out.

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My clear viewing distance without glasses is apx 2-3 inchs. Everything else is blurry.

I want laser surgery dammit.

 

I had it done last November and I haven't regretted it. Even as we were leaving the office after the surgery and everything was a little harsh, I was going "Wow! Wow!" about every second or two. I don't know what my eyes were before, but I have 20/25 vision now. I got glasses at age 7 and hard contact lenses at 11 to prevent me from becoming blind before I was 18. I couldn't remember waking up and being able to see clear in my life! It was almost like being able to see clearly for the first time. Everything was brighter and sharper. Very Cool!

The first month or 2 you use a lot of eye drops. About once an hour, but it feels good. I don't remember much discomfort afterwards. The surgery was so quick that Schrike hadn't even finished the magazine article he was reading when I went in.

Actually, I am fairly certain that you can still be a pilot and I really haven't had any kind of warning about submarines. I work for an airline and I know that we have pilots who have had the surgery. I think it is only when you first have it done that you have to worry. They say that the eye is the fastest healing part of the body which is why they can do this kind of surgery. It is so much better now than 10 years ago. The only thing they warned is that it can't stop age related eye problems. That only means that as you get old you may need reading glasses. This would happen anyway, so it its not a problem. I guess they just don't want people coming back when they are 50 and sue them for bad eyesight.

The funny part was for the first week you have to wear ski goggle things to bed! They weren't uncomfortable, but you look fairly silly. You can take showers, but you just have to make sure you close your eyes. No biggie.

 

Sounds good. Ill definatly be looking into the more once I reach 18.

 

Sorry for the confusion, I was thinking military. What airline do you work for?

 

Hmmm

Well dunno about Pilot but my Grandmother had the surgery and it has kept her Driving and shes 93 now and still behind the wheel yikes!



Shads

 

Wow....I guess its gotta be nice to be 93 and not senile yet

 

They are starting to accept pilots who have had laser surgery in the AF now.

 

My eyes are -7 and -7.25. I'm 26 and they have finally kinda settled down. My eye doctor always said you needed to wait until your perscription stopped changing before getting the surgery. Also, the only way you go blind is by having something wrong with your eyes, a disease or something. You can't get nearsighted until you go blind. Legally blind just means you are so near sighted you can't see anything without corrective lenses. That's basically me, although I don't know where the cutoff is for that.

I'll probably get the surgery in the next couple years. I'm also nervous about them messing something up. But I'm not looking to have perfect, uncorrected vision. I've used glasses and contacts for 18 years now. I can deal with them. It would just be nice to be able to find my god damn glasses in the moring Or getting up to pee in the night being able to actually find the bathroom

 

Yuck, so what happens those times when you can't find the bathroom?