I was considering getting lasik… but now I’m not sure. I have astigmatism (I think high), but my glasses prescription is relatively low. (I don’t know the exact number, I’ve just been told I don’t need a whole lot of correction.)
After talking to a doc (salesman?) about lasik (and researching online), I learned lasik mainly improves your distance vision. The doc said, I’ll probably still need glasses for up-close work.
But. Don’t we constantly do up close work? Read a message on my phone -> close up work. Read a menu -> close up work. Read a price tag -> close up work. Type on my computer -> close up work. Having to constantly put on and take off my glasses based on the task seems like a huge step backwards compared to today where I just have my glasses on all the time and don’t think about them. (Or lose them.) I heard I could get some glasses that let me see far and close… and I could wear them all day…
So… what’s the point of lasik in that case?
I’ve heard after lasik, my overall un-assisted vision would improve. I would only need minor corrective lenses. But. Why does major vs minor correction matter?
If I still need glasses (with minor correction), what’s the point of lasik?
Am I missing something here?
Why do tons of people online seem extremely happy with their lasik experience?
I was at a conference last summer in a facility shared by an Opthalmology conference. Most opthalmologists were wearing glasses.
In the 80s-90s radial keratonomy was big, and those people are going blind late in life. The major concern of Lasik is the flap of cornea they cut doesn’t always heal.
I have myopia, but that means I do not need reading glasses until in my late 60s. There are two different technologies that do not require laser ablation: refractive lens exchange and electromechanical lense reshaping. Both can be updated later in life. But we are just now starting to see the long term implications of Lasik surgery.