Quote Originally Posted by LauraPaura
Hi Robbin_G
Can I ask how did it go and how much was it alltogether? I've been thinking about this myself for a long time now since I have really bad eyesight (-10 in right eye = almost blind ) but have still been scared if something goes wrong and if it hurts and so on. So I'd appreciate every comment on this.

Laura P
I had Lasik back in 2000, and I've been very happy with it. That said, my post-Lasik vision is not quite 20/20. It's good in that since at 53 I still don't need reading glasses where with 20/20 vision I would need them. I have glasses that I use for driving at night, but I don't need them other than that. (At the time, I checked into a second procedure to get to 20/20 - but my eyes wouldn't support a second surgery. In spite of that I'm still very happy with the results. My pre-Lasik vision wasn't as bad as yours, but in the overall scheme of things it was pretty bad - around a -6.5 in both eyes.)

I was pretty freaked out because I couldn't see clearly immediately after the procedure. It took a couple of hours of closed eyes at home (I think I actually slept) and then my vision was very clear. I've talked to some folks who said their vision was perfectly clear immediately after the procedure and to others that had a similar experience to mine. At the time I had my procedure there weren't the profileration of Lasik centers; the doc I went to had been doing Lasik since the beginning and she also trains other docs in Lasik procedures. I'm a little conservative when it comes to doing things like this; I suspect I would make the same choice of physician today even though the costs were higher.

--- Denise