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[quote=Anonymous]I researched LASIK about 20 years ago, but at the time the results seemed too risky for my -10 prescription. It would have been nice to ditch contacts/glasses, but mostly they worked fine.

Then in my late 40s everything changed. I had to start wearing astigmatism contacts (toric), and I always hated them. Then my eyes got dry and the toric lenses wouldn’t “spin” like they should, so I had to stop wearing contacts. Then I started to need reading correction, and between the nearsighted correction, the astigmatism correction, and the reading correction nothing was ever quite right and I could never see 100% well. And that was with getting them done at a proper eye place, paying $500 plus every year for a new pair *after* insurance.

So this year I got my lenses replaced. It was more than $10k, which was a lot for something optional for my income, but I figure I’ll recoup a chunk of that in lower costs over the years. Besides the fact that I don’t need glasses anymore, the artificial lenses don’t develop cataracts the way natural lenses do, so I shouldn’t need future cataract surgery.

In terms of satisfaction … eh? I’m more satisfied than not and would choose it again. But my results haven’t been as good as I hoped. I’ve definitely had the dry eye and halos at night, but also some actual vision problems, which were mostly from inflammation and I’m hoping will lessen over time. The pain itself wasn’t too bad, during or after the surgery. If anyone is considering lens replacement, I would give it a cautious recommendation as long as you know the possible side effects and are okay with the fact that they really might happen to you. [/quote]

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