I can't help you out, but I am also 23 and searching for new eyeballs. If in fact you go thru with zapping your corneas, then let me know how it goes....I've been wanting to do this since I was like 16. I'm just not happy with -4.50 and -3.50 eyes.

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Originally posted by Sly_Guy I can't help you out, but I am also 23 and searching for new eyeballs. If in fact you go thru with zapping your corneas, then let me know how it goes....I've been wanting to do this since I was like 16. I'm just not happy with -4.50 and -3.50 eyes.

soon our eyes are gonna look like the guy in your avatar.

I fuckin hate sqinting, and i hate people asking me why i squint? isnt it obvious im blind!!!!

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i know someone who had it done.. at like 24-25

u get a life time warranty, so if it your eyes get worse u get ur operations after for free.

it takes 15 minutes per eye,

and its bout 1500$ for both i believe.

I would be willing to sell one (or perhaps both) of my eyeballs. My eyes are blue, and my vision is apparently better than 20/20. Just PM me and we will discuss details (price, etc.)

Katie

Ill trade u my crusty brown ones!

Ps they dont work

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Hey man,

Short version: I wouldn't try it just yet. Too many things still go wrong.

Long version: I've researched this quite a bit, and I am not ready to play Russian roulette with a lazer gun. IF your surgery is successful, then you still have a chance of having halo's and other after-effects of the surgery. Research these, I think they might scare you. To provide more context...

What the doctors don't tell you is what "they" consider a success: that is, they didn't make your eye-sight worse, you seem to be seeing better in daylight - that's success - whooptee-do! (this success rate is about 98-99%)

In reality, the success rate should be measured against people who have not displayed surgery after effects (bright lights at night, loss of night vision, halos, double-vision of simple things such as sub-titles, etc etc etc), as well as those that do not need corrective surgery IMMIDEATELY after the first one. When you count those in, the success rate of lazer eye surgery is supposedly around 85%..

You also should know they offer life-time warranty. What does that tell you? That your eye-sight may get worse, and you will HAVE to zap it again in that case. Are you prepared to do that? Do you know long-term effects of blasting lazer into pretty much the most delicate tissue in your body?

So you decide. If your vision is so messed up that glasses and contacts don't help anymore, by all means, do it. I'm holding out for 5-7 more years to see if there are any studies that show increased eye-cancer or eye disease rates for those who have undergone the surgery. If nothing comes out of that, heck, i'd be the first in line to zap 'em.

Cheers,

-Superstring

PS. Also wanted to let you know that I work with a guy who has had the surgery done. He is now having issues with after-effects which I have described above. When I spoke to him, he said he would give alot of things up just to be able to go back and wear glasses and contacts again, instead of the crap he has to deal with now.

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I've spoken to at least 10 people who have had it done, and you are the first one who has ever said anything negative about it. But that's not a bad thing. Personally, what I've heard is that when you cut costs on the sugery, more things tend to go wrong. I was also expecting a price tag of about $5000 per eye. And as for the night vision problems, I have also heard of those, intense coronas around lights, and as someone who loves my nocturnal mayhem, I don't think I'd be willing to risk that as well, if indeed your figures are correct. But I guess it doesn't matter, I wasn't planning on getting the surgery anytime soon, but it was something I've been looking at for a long time.

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5K an eye is quite a bit. Have the people you talked to also gotten this hefty price surgery, or did they opt for the cheaper ones, like the ones you see on TV for like $500 odd?

I'm curious to this as well since I've been considering removing the need for my glasses.

Meanwhile, these after effects sound like they might go down a treat in a club with the lasers going off :P

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One of my friends had it, it was sort of a requirement for him if he were to get into policing.

He had to wear those awesome oldpeople wrap-around sunglasses for 2 weeks or so, but he swears his vision has improved tenfold.

So yeah, I don't know, but I believe him.

consider this.... there are shit loads of famous people that i see that wear glasses once every blue moon, meaning that even though they are insanely rich, they still opt out for the more traditional glasses and contacts option. if they wanted to, they could get the best surgeon in the world do the operation, but they dont go thru with it.

i've been wanting to have it done for years. my ex's dad had it done and he hasnt had any side effects, but his eyes were also -7 or soemthing crazy like that.

besides, glasses tend to make people look smart and sophisticated. i figure if i dont really have it, might as well fake it

Go for the 5 grand per eye if anything. If you want to gamble with your eyes, gamble smart. The 500 per eye is the cheapest thing and they just want you in and out as quickly as possible. Stuff like that, don'd go cheap on.
One of the big side effects is that you develop far sightedness more quickly than if you didn't go though with the procedure. You may want to consider this depending on what you will be doing most (ie, on the computer/reading stuff vs driving for a living)