Hi, Im considering getting LASIK surgery and I live in the dallas area so I was thinking about going to Dr. Boothe just like 75,000 other people lol. anyway if anyone has had LASIK did it go ok and if so is Dr. Boothe an good surgeon? thanks.
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Hi, Im considering getting LASIK surgery and I live in the dallas area so I was thinking about going to Dr. Boothe just like 75,000 other people lol. anyway if anyone has had LASIK did it go ok and if so is Dr. Boothe an good surgeon? thanks.
Tex~
Please forgive me, but what is LASIK?
Looks like some sort of acronym, but I have never seen it over here.............please remember that you have an international audience mate :D
Im sorry let me clarify:LASIK Abbreviation standing for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, a kind of laser eye surgery designed to change the shape of the cornea to eliminate or reduce the need for glasses and contact lenses.
Its basically laser eye surgery to get rid of glasses or contacts ( which I wear)
It's laser eye surgery... I am considering it... But I'm, 48 and have had perfect eyesight all my life until 2 years ago... I seems to have a limited effect and then it needs to be repeated... That's ok at my age... I'll only need it a couple of times... At the Texan's age... I'm, not sure he shouldn't wait until that have it "down pat" and long lasting before he puts his eyes under "the knife"... It could end in tears....
from what I read you SHOULD only have to have it done once and then maybe one "adjustment" but they did say like im 21 now so if i got it now when i reached ur old age ;) i would still have to wear reading glasses to read
Hey,
I am no optometrist, but at your age Tex~ I would leave it a while. I do not believe that you have physically matured enough yet (no insult there mate, but your body is probably still changing?) particularly with your eyes...................I found some old glasses a while back to give to one of those aid programmes.................I was amazed at how much my eyes had changed between 15 and 25!
I have looked at more recent ones and the changes seem very slight, apart from the getting old effect :D
If the only reason is wearing glasses I would say no.................they would be messing with something that hadn't stabilised..................kinda like shooting at a moving target?
Just my thoughts pal ;)
What?!Quote:
Tigershark says: I am considering it... But I'm, 48 and have had perfect eyesight all my life until 2 years ago
You're as blind as a bat! I can prove it.
j/k
Well, okay then.... at least you could read the damn bottle labels across the room where as all I could see was white fuzzy letters.
Darn those Englishmen!
:D
Nihil, thanks for the thoughts and I will take that into consideration but just for your info the "offical" qualifications are: over the age of 18, your vison must not have changed for 1 year and you must not have any kind of degenerate eye disease. all that said, LASIK is expensive so I think i will wait just til i save some money since insurance doesnt cover it.
Tex~
I am 55 and my eyes have not changed that much in the last 5 years. When I was your age they did change quite a bit. I don't know too much about the laser eyesight technology, but I wouldn't think of it before I was 25.
So, you think that the chicks don't like guys with glasses................they do if yo can afford them...........just look at Gates................must be the ugliest bastid on Earth after TheSpecialist?
Remember that these scum are trying to sell you something you don't need ;)
Also, your chosen occupation does not help.....................you have a weird mid-range requirement that I am not sure this stuff treats?
Be careful friend :)
hey johnno, thanx for the consern and i will be think about it carefully before doing anything :)
Hey Tex...
Give it a few more years to let the technology improve...remember..."breast implants" in the early 70's were all the rage...I needn't say anymore (silicone)...
USA TodayQuote:
LASIK risks understated
By Stephanie Armour and Julie Appleby, USA TODAY
By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY
Leslie Woodlock, 40, says her eyes are so bad after LASIK surgery that she has trouble seeing and can't drive at night. She now runs a support group for other patients.
Laser eye surgery is being touted in advertisements as a quick, virtually risk-free procedure that can end patients' need for glasses. But with more than 1 million patients expected to undergo the procedure this year, thousands are learning what the ads don't say: The surgery can cause life-altering complications that sometimes can't be fixed. Problems include double or triple vision so severe patients can't watch TV or read, light distortions so blinding they can't drive at night and eyes so dry that goggles must be worn outside. Some patients have spent thousands of dollars trying to fix problems only to find the technology doesn't yet exist to provide a remedy. Industry analysts and reports from the Food and Drug Administration suggest that up to 5% of patients experience some sort of complication.
Get as much info as possible before taking the plunge.... :cool:
I had Lasik back in October, and I wish I hadn't. Because the pupil of my eye was larger than the area corrected, I have horrible night vision, reading computer screens takes longer than it used to because of the light. My eye's have more problems now than they did with glasses.
The main reason I had the surgery was because they assured me that I was a prime candidate and that there should be no problems... As well as the fact that I enjoy dangerous outdoor sports that losing my glasses or a contact lense could cause fatal results. (rock climbing, kayaking, etc If I had known that I would have these kind of problems I wouldn't have had the surgery...
Oh and currently, they're unable to fix my problems... They prescripe drops that "might" help with night driving only, and have so many side effects, I'd never think of trying them.
To say the least I don't suggest Lasik.
well thanks for the honest opinion... its good to hear the good and bad... not just the "everything was wonderful!" and i am sorry they F'ed your eyes.
I was thinking of going Custom Lasik. So this thread prompted me to read about it.
I found that there were a substantial amount of complaints about the cheaper Lasik, but less complaints about the more expensive Custom Lasik.
I read quite a few complaints (horror stories) and some of the American and Canadian Lasik mills shutting down and honestly, it scared the crap out of me. I found out the American Lasik wasn't as good due to inferior equipment as opposed to the better Canadian equipment.
The complaint rate I read about was from 3% (older Lasik surgery) to 1% (for the Lasik mills primarily where they don't properly qualify a patient), and much much less for Custom Lasik.
My job, just like yours, is so visually oriented that if my eyes get messed up worse, I'll be up a river without a paddle and without a boat.
I don't know that I could ever be I.T.'s version of Ray Charles.
Just so you know a bit more about my surgery. I had custom lasik, and I live in the D.C. area, which means I have access to some of the country's best eye surgeons. I had mine done through TLC, and they still say that the surgery went perfectly, although they didn't expect the night vision to be such a problem. They used the allegretto laser, which is considered to be the best laser available in the U.S. And the surgery was anything but cheap. Luckily I can still do my job, and the problem only slows me down a bit. But night vision can go from annoying, to painful depending on differing factors of ambient light, headlight beams, stop lights etc. I'm hoping that it will stabilize more over the next 4-5 months (the healing time period is a year). but currently I'd rather be wearing glasses.Quote:
Originally posted here by ZT3000
I was thinking of going Custom Lasik. So this thread prompted me to read about it.
I found that there were a substantial amount of complaints about the cheaper Lasik, but less complaints about the more expensive Custom Lasik.
I read quite a few complaints (horror stories) and some of the American and Canadian Lasik mills shutting down and honestly, it scared the crap out of me. I found out the American Lasik wasn't as good due to inferior equipment as opposed to the better Canadian equipment.
The complaint rate I read about was from 3% (older Lasik surgery) to 1% (for the Lasik mills primarily where they don't properly qualify a patient), and much much less for Custom Lasik.
My job, just like yours, is so visually oriented that if my eyes get messed up worse, I'll be up a river without a paddle and without a boat.
I don't know that I could ever be I.T.'s version of Ray Charles.