laser eye surgery?
#1
11-19-2009, 03:06 PM
laser eye surgery?
Has anyone had this procedure done or know of anyone that has done it? Im considering it. Have a consultation next week.
#3
11-19-2009, 03:42 PM
I got PRK. The Army was doing a free test run of setting up Laser Eye clinics at major bases, and did their first run at Ft. Bragg. I got PRK because the old school lasik was for chumps. I had 20/475 and 20/550 right and left. Post op (done in 2003) i walked out with 20/15 and 20/20 right and left. thats right, the Army gave me a BETTER than optimal eye. 
It's wicked sweet. First they go through a bunch of lame tests to see if your blindness = the kind they shoot lasers at. Then they squirt battery acid-like numbing drops which burn the F out of your eye, but make then numb to the touch. Then you lay down and listen to some soothing cool jams on a cd designed to ease the stress of some fool shooting lasers at your eye.
Next an assisstant with slightly more education than me and my high school 2.38 gpa takes a medical dremel to your eye scruff the surface and rendering you highly aggitated and blinder than before.
Thats when the lights kick off and Dr. Laser beam starts shooting you eye meat. You will get to see the smoke of your burning eye float away. *BONUS* the average dude will never smell this again, so note it in the old brain wrinkles...
Lather, rinse, repaet for the other eye. And it's game time. At this point you will be grinning like a goofy A-hole because, "Holy Sh*T! I can SEE!" it will look like opening your eyes underwater, but with contacts in.....
From there you will pound some tastey pills and retire zombie-like to your bed.
Roughly 8-10 hours later you will wake up to the WORST pain of your life. this is because your zombie-like *** did not set the alarm to eat new drugs. You want your drugs BEFORE the old ones wear off. IT SUCKS!!!! It feels a lot like someone did all the stuff i listed above to your eyes, except now you are not in the fastlane to Opiate Town while it's going on. Now you are working a grinding dead end job while raising a family you resent in Painsville. EAT YOUR PILLS OFTEN AND EARLY!
After about day 3 you feel good to go. After about day 5 you ARE good to go. After about 2 weeks you will not have such sensitivity to cold/heat/light, and after about 3-4 weeks the little halos around lights at night go away.
RECAP: DO IT! it is awesome!
It's wicked sweet. First they go through a bunch of lame tests to see if your blindness = the kind they shoot lasers at. Then they squirt battery acid-like numbing drops which burn the F out of your eye, but make then numb to the touch. Then you lay down and listen to some soothing cool jams on a cd designed to ease the stress of some fool shooting lasers at your eye.
Next an assisstant with slightly more education than me and my high school 2.38 gpa takes a medical dremel to your eye scruff the surface and rendering you highly aggitated and blinder than before.
Thats when the lights kick off and Dr. Laser beam starts shooting you eye meat. You will get to see the smoke of your burning eye float away. *BONUS* the average dude will never smell this again, so note it in the old brain wrinkles...
Lather, rinse, repaet for the other eye. And it's game time. At this point you will be grinning like a goofy A-hole because, "Holy Sh*T! I can SEE!" it will look like opening your eyes underwater, but with contacts in.....
From there you will pound some tastey pills and retire zombie-like to your bed.
Roughly 8-10 hours later you will wake up to the WORST pain of your life. this is because your zombie-like *** did not set the alarm to eat new drugs. You want your drugs BEFORE the old ones wear off. IT SUCKS!!!! It feels a lot like someone did all the stuff i listed above to your eyes, except now you are not in the fastlane to Opiate Town while it's going on. Now you are working a grinding dead end job while raising a family you resent in Painsville. EAT YOUR PILLS OFTEN AND EARLY!
After about day 3 you feel good to go. After about day 5 you ARE good to go. After about 2 weeks you will not have such sensitivity to cold/heat/light, and after about 3-4 weeks the little halos around lights at night go away.
RECAP: DO IT! it is awesome!
