One point worth brining up: if you’re going to do Lasik, I suggest you do it whiule you’re young! I did it in my late 30’s (I’m 44 now), and am finding that I’m starting to get farsighted (it just happens with age, and there’s no surgical cure for that!).
So, while my corrected vision is fine, I’ll probably be needing reading glasses quite soon!
So, have the surgery while you’re young enough to enjoy a few decades without glasses. You may find yourself wearing them again once you hit middle age!
Yeah, that kind of farsightedness is due to the lens in the eye hardening with age. Reshaping the cornea wouldn’t help much, especially since it’ll continue to get worse as time goes on.
I had Lasik a year ago, and went from something like 20/400 to 20/15 as well. Cost me more then than it does now, but worth every penny. I have to wonder if eyeglasses are going to go the way of the buggy whip.
I would also recommend it to anyone whose vision bothers them. I don’t know if I’d bother if I had 20/40.
At age 44, I went from painfully nearsighted to farsighted. I can read and use the computer and such, but if I have to do any kind of fine work I have to use reading glasses. Not much of a problem, as I have about half a dozen pairs of them I leave all over the house.
That it is! I get a bit disoriented in the mornings sometimes, because I wake up, reach for my glasses, and then have a moment of confusion as I realize that I can see just fine without them. And occasionally I have ‘phantom glasses’ where I subconsciously reach up to push them up my nose, only to find they aren’t there.
How long had your prescription been stable before you had it done?
Many many years ago my parents said that, if the long-term studies worked out, they’d give me LASIK as a university graduation present. Since I’m still losing an average 0.5 diopters per year in each eye (I’m already at -7.75, -8.25; how low can she go?) I’m clearly not a good candidate right now… but I’m keeping it in mind.
I had Lasik in January 2001 and I am still delighted with the results. I started with a prescription of -5.75 diopters in both eyes and got 20/20 vision after the surgery. I was still reading 20/20 at my checkup a few months ago.
It’s not perfect; one side effect that I still have is fuzzy vision in low-light conditions. I notice it most often when I’m watching TV at night with the lights turned off. I do see a significant halo around lights when I drive at night, but I saw that effect with contacts and glasses anyway so I don’t feel that my night vision got worse.
It was at least two years before I stopped reaching for my glasses whenever I got out of bed.