My experience (regular old LASIK, around three years ago) was that I got out of the chair seeing around 20/100. I got driven home and went to sleep immediately (probably tiredness due to stress) Woke up mid-afternoon around 20/60. Next morning I was around 20/40, and on waking the next day I was 20/15 in one eye, 20/30 in the other. (all numbers except the last two are estimates.)
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rundogrun, I thought night hazing was the most common side effect. Did I understand correctly that this occurs in less than 1% of cases?
robinh, when you think of laser surgery, you think “Hey, that’d make it easier to find my glasses!”? I may have a weird sense of humor, but I think that’s pretty darn funny.
The actual percentage for night hazing isn’t given, but here’s the link that details the complications:
My firend told me her friend went to Montreal to get the surgery because they are good at it (?!) and way cheaper than the States… Any of you know??
I want this surgery so bad…
We are all saying it is expensive… what is expensive for you? I heard of $ 2500 per eye… is that an accurate figure?
I had my eyes done about 2 1/2 yrs ago and I still see perfectly. Sometimes I have mild night hazing but no worse then what I had with contacts so I have no complaints. I think I paid $2400 per eye. By the way, I didn’t take the valium.
I paid $4500. I did notice in the paper today an ad for both eyes for $1850 total…the doctor’s credentials seemed good insofar as he had lots of experience and was head of Refractive surgery at a local hospital.
It makes sense that Canada could be cheaper because of the value of the dollar. I’ll let the Canadian dopers handle that one.