If you wear glasses read this:

Just a little story for all you glasses wearers out there.

I had phakic lens implant (permenant contact lense) surgery 4 months ago now and am extremely happy with the results.

Ive worn glasss all my life (im 21) and last August i felt that i really didnt want to be tied down by them anymore so i went for a consultation about laser surgery.

After my consultation i was told that my eyes are too bad for laser surgery and that contact lens implants were the only way for me. My prescription is -19 in my left eye and -18 in my right eye, which is extremely bad.

So i had my surgery and 4 months later my vision is perfect! i have 20/20 vision in each eye now and im free to do more things without worrying about my glasses getting broken or lost, it's fantastic!

So yeah anyway, if your fed up of wearing glasses as i was then go for it! there really isnt anything to worry about other than the cost, but for a lifetime without having to wear glasses anymore it's more than worth it.

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wow!!! -19 -18 thats terrible.. man it must've sucked to take ur glasses off!ferrari2001

Thats by far the main reason i did it.

Sorry if it seemed like i assumed everyone hates their glasses, i wasnt implying that at all.

I know how annoying glasses can be at times when you constantly have to wear them:

Swimming in the sea/pools with glasses is hard and could damage them.

Even having a shower without your glasses can be difficult with not being able to see properly.

At gig/festivals you have to be careful not to get them knocked off because again, they'll get broken and you'll be practically blind again.

There are just so many small advantages i have now that i don't wear them anymore.

I've been thinking about getting laser eye surgery but im to much of a whimp :(edd678

My mum had laser surgery, she swears by it.

My best friend and her mum are also thinking about having it done on my mums recommendation now too.

[QUOTE="edd678"]I've been thinking about getting laser eye surgery but im to much of a whimp :(SephirothsAngel

My mum had laser surgery, she swears by it.

My best friend and her mum are also thinking about having it done on my mums recommendation now too.

Hmmm my eyes arnet to bad at the moment, i just need glasses for looking at the board in college and for when i start driving. But i went to the opticians last month and my eyes had slightly got worse which isnt promising. With laser eye surgery isnt there the chance of it going wrong and being blind? :(

I'm so lucky I have perfect vision.Meh___Guy

GTFO! :evil: :P

I'm getting Lazik surgery at 24, that way my eyes will stop "changing" and I will only have to do it once.

For now, I'll just have to live with disposable contacts and glasses. I still hate them.

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[QUOTE="edd678"]I've been thinking about getting laser eye surgery but im to much of a whimp :(edd678

My mum had laser surgery, she swears by it.

My best friend and her mum are also thinking about having it done on my mums recommendation now too.

Hmmm my eyes arnet to bad at the moment, i just need glasses for looking at the board in college and for when i start driving. But i went to the opticians last month and my eyes had slightly got worse which isnt promising. With laser eye surgery isnt there the chance of it going wrong and being blind? :(

That's what I am worried about when it comes to it. I've heard about it happen before, and just hearing it that once, even though there are thousands more successful operations, it still gives you that doubt. I would love to have rid of my glasses though...

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[QUOTE="edd678"]I've been thinking about getting laser eye surgery but im to much of a whimp :(edd678

My mum had laser surgery, she swears by it.

My best friend and her mum are also thinking about having it done on my mums recommendation now too.

Hmmm my eyes arnet to bad at the moment, i just need glasses for looking at the board in college and for when i start driving. But i went to the opticians last month and my eyes had slightly got worse which isnt promising. With laser eye surgery isnt there the chance of it going wrong and being blind? :(

No no and no, with any kind of surgery theres a chance of something going wrong, but laser surgery is a worldwide thing nowdays.

The only way of it causing you to go blind is if the surgeon decides it would be funny to turn the laser up and burn the hell out of your eyeballs (and how likely is that?)

It literally take a few seconds per eye and it's all over. The recovery time is around 1 day and you'll have your vision, then after around a month everything has settled down and you'll have perfect vision.

My dad doesnt have the right "type of eyes" to get LASIC either. How bad does your prescription have to be? He is only a little worse than me (I wear contacts and my prescription is like -2.5 and -2.75. So, he's probably a 3 or so. How bad does it have to be?BrendanBox39

I think laser/lasic can go up to around -12 possibly less.

My mum ws -7 and -8 and she had the Wavefront Lasic surgery

Having such implants must make you fell badass! I'VE GOT TO GET ME ONE OF THOSE!

But I don't have money:cry:

And without my glasses I look like an idiot.

And I got used to them, I don't feel ok without them, know what I mean?:(

My eyes are pretty bad too both are negative 8 or something along the lines of that so yea I am considering getting that sometime in the mere future

That is the first time I heard of phakic lens implanets. Thats sorta neat. At the moment I wear Focus Night & Day. These ones I can wear for 30 days straight, not having to take them out even once, including while I sleep. After insurance, I pay about $150 a year.

I'm probably going to get laser eye surgery next year though. I would have gotten it this year, but I forget to sign up for FSA (Flex Saving Account), so I figure I wait till then to save about 25%. I think the surgury is about $4k, roughly $3k out of pocket, if I use FSA.

BTW, my eye sight is between -3.75 and -4.00, both eyes.

I don't think my eyesight is that bad. Tell me, did your eyesight get progressively worse or was it always so bad?_Dispair_

My eyes have been bad from birth, ive worn glasses since i was 2 (when my parents first noticed that i couldnt see things properly)

I tried wearing contacts for a week and it just wasn't for me. Everyone said that I looked better with glasses.darkmoney52

Thats another reason ive had it done, i was never happy with myself when i wore glasses, ive got so much more confidence now that i don't wear them.

It's a bit to risky for me, and wearing glasses wouldn't bother me that much, it's not like I do alot of stuff that would knock them off me...judog1

Do you have to wear glasses?

A lot of people asked me what the point was and that my life wouldnt be that much different without them, but it's just so many small things that make the difference and people that havent had the wear glasses all their life wouldnt understand (no offence)

If you dont mind how much was it?halo3-player

£2500