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without the use of prescription eyewear.

And it's awesome. I had Lasik in the left eye and PRK in the right eye on Wednesday. The PRK eye is like looking through cloudy plastic due to the fact that I'm still wearing a bandage contact that won't come out til Monday but I've already concluded that I'd permanently swap all the vision in the right eye for the kind of vision I now have in my left eye.

I took a nap and only around 4 hours or so after surgery, I had good enough vision to feel OK driving. No irritation at all in my left eye, though I would dearly love to rip the contact out of the right one. To anyone who considers PRK, I say do it at the start of a week's vacation. To anyone who considers LASIK, I say do it on a Friday and by Monday you should be not only recovered, but probably not as prone to making so many comments about how wonderful it is to be able to see.

I'm quite pleased with the turn of events. Excuse me while I gloat for a bit.

Whoo whooo!

Gratz

What a bummer if you now realise that Mrs TStephens is not the hawtie you thougt and is, in fact, a Munter called Earl

Yay for you! How did you feel going to the surgery? Were you totally nervous? I know that the docs give you some kind of tranquilizer, but someone told me that even though you're totally relaxed, you can see what they're doing. Is that true? That would freak me out, seeing something coming at my eye and I'm willingly staying still for that.

Besides, my vision is so bad, LASIK wouldn't work all the way for me. But part of me still wants to try.

I was nervous all of Monday and Tuesday. I irritated the girlfriend badly, I'm sure. She put up with me, which is a plus in my book. Wednesday, all the jitters went away. They gave me a valium. You have the option to turn it down. I didn't.

You get to see everything. You're well awake and actually have an important role other than just being there. You need to look at the little red dot. It's amazing how much you want to look at other things when you need to look at the little red dot, too. The numbing drops they put in the eyes prevent any real discomfort. There were some disconcerting moments, to be sure. I felt oddly troubled when they took what appeared t be a tiny buffer and scrubbed the surface of my right (PRK) eyeball as prep. I also had misgivings when they peeled back the flapof cornea on my left (LASIK) eye and everything went into whiteout.

But overall, it wasn't bad because it was over quickly.

You may want to check into the procedure before you decide it won't fix your vision. I wasn't promised perfect vision but I could tell they were highly confident I would have good vision. I was told my probability was in the high 90's. And it's only been about 3 years since I was told that I would still need glasses if I had the procedure done.

very kewl. what is PRK?

Yeah, I'm curious about that too. What is PRK?

(I'm interested in getting laser surgery sometime in the near future too, so thanks for the info)

I'd have probably done LASIK a while ago but I started wearing contacts. The thirty day, night and day kind. They cause no discomfort for about 40 days for me usually. I hardly ever notice they're there.

They've spoiled me.

I had surgery on my eyes oh, let's say 12 years ago or so. That was way back when they cut your cornea with a scalpel and then reshaped it, used eye patches... and I had to literally press on the cornea and hold for 5 minutes, like 6 times a day or so. I hated that part, but I can still see very well.

What was amazing, was seeing grass and realizing each individual blade instead of carpet.