Lasik

I am going to get my eyes fixed on Thursday.
I expect I will need glasses for reading but now I need them for
everything else including using the PC.

Good on you Bob. SWMBO had it done years ago. Went in with glasses like
coke-bottle bottoms and came out needing only reading glasses. Hope you get the
same or better result.

Just don't get it done from a doctor that spells it "Lazik".

I hope so.
Glad her's turned out so well.
I've read and heard a couple of accounts of people who were legally
blind needing only reading glasses afterwards.
I almost feel a little guilty because I can see, just not well but
it's there for everyone these days and the accuracy gets better and
better.

I'm looking forward to not needing several pairs of glasses for
different situations.

Glasses are a pain in the butt, that's for sure, but being blind in one eye

Dude, they go on your head!

Corbin helps with nearsightedness? :)

already I don't even consider screwing around with the one that works for fear
that something would go wrong. Hope it all goes well for you.

I'm with you there.

Everyone I know who got it loves it.

My eyes were just built perfect to begin with :)

So were mine.
Just wait a while. :-)

That's where I am at I expect.

Good luck to you Bob, on the procedure.

Unfortunately as I understand it, Lasik does nothing to address the
problem of diminished accomodation as you age-- you can only pick a new
'sweet spot' where your eyes can focus well, but the problem of not having
distance and close up vision without lenses for one or the other remains.

I got glasses with 'continuous bi-focals' and they're great, I can see
at a distance by looking straight through, but when I glance down at the
clocks or the tank bag, through the bottom of the lenses, I can focus
quite well. Plus, I like to have glasses on for some eye protection if
I have to raise the face shield on my FF helmet.

OOh, yeah, I love mine. I had been having problems focusing up close and reading
computer monitors at work, so a year ago I dropped in at an optometrist's. He
dropped a close-up eye chart in my lap and asked me to read lines... I was
stunned at how bad my ability to focus over a great range had become. So he
prescribed me my first pair of bifocals. I was a little grumpy about it, but
that's what happens in your 40s. To console myself I also bought a pair of Rec
Specs‹sport glasses‹with distance-vision only lenses to wear under my hockey
helmet. (I figure that I don't actually need to read the words on the puck.)
Bifocals are spendy; no need to get them all bent up in a hockey game.

The warned me that it takes a while to get used to bifocals, and I was a bit
loopy walking out of the office. But driving and riding is great! I look down
and see the instruments in focus. (Remember how autofocus slide projectors would
sometimes show a slide out of focus and then adjust for it? Things look like
that when your eyes slow down. That's what all the fuss is about with us old
fellers.)

A fellow rider here had Lasik done, he doesn't have to wear glasses for
distance vision, but he still ends up carrying around a couple of pairs
of reading glasses... and more to the point, he can't see a map in his
tank bag without some sort of lenses so he has to wear half-lens readers.
To him it's great since he now buys the reading glasses off the rack
rather than through an optician, but TBH the difference escapes me.

Some opt for one eye adjusted to distance vision, the other for close
vision.

I thought of doing that but I'm not sure about having one looking at
you and the other one looking for you.

I think the adjustment would be subtle enough that for most purposes,
unnoticeable since the brain compensates for the small discrepancy.
Otherwise, reading glasses are the norm.

Lasic left me a touch nearsighted, so I still wear thin lenses for
distance vision (used to have coke bottom bottoms) but take them off for
reading.

At that point, anything is an improvement.
Have you thought about getting a touch up to fine tune the distance
vision?

Can't, doc said there's not enough cornea left for that.

I dunno. My eyes are something like -8 diopters. Not as bad as a few I've seen,
but bad enough that reading a paperback book in bed without glasses is a pain.
So it would be a pretty serious change to my cornea to fix that.

I was amazed to find out just how slight the change
really is. According to my optometrist, less than one
thousandth of an inch is removed in many cases. The laser
can cut precise notches in a human hair.
When my aunt had it done, the doctor cut the corneal
flap all the way off instead leaving a hinge on one side.
He just laid it back in place and it healed up fine.
They mark the cornea in two places before they slice
it so they can be sure it's lined up right.
I wonder what it would feel like to have that slice
made without the anesthesia...

There used to be issues with seeing in the dark after getting these
surgeries. Is that still a concern?

For some there may be, who have large pupils or for a perfectionist.
There are trade-offs, it takes a while for the healing where a lot of the
star-burst effects will diminish when the eyes heal. I still see some
ghosting but it is not noticed that much and after several years, doesn't
bother me.

I've heard the star-burst effects are greater on those who have had
radial keratomy.

It's less of a concern and they also have a new high tech method (for
more money of course) with far less risk of that.

The risks are higher for people with large pupils and those who are
far sighted.

Good luck to you Bob. Modern technology can be a wonderful thing,

I already have problems in high glare situations anyway, especially if
I am not wearing my UV glasses.
I was told I was pretty much a perfect candidate so I hope my luck
runs okay.
Thanks.

especially if it can restore lost senses.

I am just at the point of needing reading glasses (well the last three
years), but have yet to need them for driving or riding.