the eyes have it

[jrtom]

I've been putting things in place to allow me to get laser surgery on my eyes for something over a year now. Today I finally made an appointment to get it done.

In my case, this is not going to be a trivial operation: my myopia is sufficiently extreme (about -12 diopters in each eye; I literally cannot focus two inches in front of my face) that they're going to use two different forms of LASIK (conventional and WaveFront) for the operation, and the chances that I'll have 20/20 vision afterwards, while probably better than 50-50, are not great. Hopefully the benefits will be worth the risk (and the cost)...but if nothing else, I should at least be able to function without corrective lenses, which I simply can't do now.

Crossing fingers...

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Re: merry late xmas I suppose

[mrlogic.livejournal.com]

The loss of fine detail has been the main reason I haven't gone for LASIK. My prescription is nearly as strong as yours was (in fact you're one of very few people I've met whose prescription was worse than mine). In addition, I'm old enough that LASIK would probably make me more or less instantly presbyopic, so I'd have to wear reading glasses pretty soon. I'd be very interested to talk with you about your experiences as a post-LASIK hypermyope.

Re: merry late xmas I suppose

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Post-op, I can focus on things no closer than 5". I brought this up with my sister (red_frog) and she pointed out the existence of magnifying glasses. :) I honestly don't think I've lost much in terms of really close-up fine detail, though.

As for the presbyopia: as I understand it, you'll be presbyopic eventually with or without LASIK; getting LASIK would just mean that you would need reading glasses rather than bifocals.

As for my experiences: I've now made three post-LASIK posts in my LJ (Google on " "post-LASIK" Joshua" to find the first two); feel free to ask questions in the comments (or to email me).