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[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure if I look better without glasses or I just look better in SD

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

You missed the part where not all LASIK procedures are "bladeless". As in: there is an eye knife and guess which way you gotta look for that to work.

Bonus:

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have eye problems of any kind. Don't even need reading glasses....

And even I cried upon reading this.

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[–] salmoura 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As if I didn't have enough reasons to avoid that procedure.

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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

To each they're own. I got lasik'd because I hate having my very existence almost entirely reliant on this fragile glass and plastic thing on my face that I had to constantly clean. I also want to go hiking for more then a day, so I went ahead with it. I wish I had went for the femtosecond operation in another city though, less chance for dry-eye.

[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would glasses prevent you from hiking multiple days?

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If they get lost or damaged I would be stressed for the whole time. Just a me thing.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Plus sweat on face slides glasses down the nose.

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've learnt the hard way to always bring a second pair of glasses for any trip, no matter how short.

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[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (9 children)

My aunt got corrective eye surgery and was really happy with it, but her description of the experience made me want to never do it. For whatever procedure she had, they had to keep her awake to provide feedback while also scalpelling open the lens of her eye and she said she could smell her eyeball being lasered. She had absolutely no side effects and loves not needing to wear glasses, but her telling me what the procedure was like put it firmly in the hell no category for me.

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Yup. The procedure is like something out of a body horror movie. Nothing I’d wanna do again for fun. Still 10/10 payoff, would do again.

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I got LASIK about 10 years ago. Can confirm both the visual experience of watching them laser/scalpel my lens off, as well as the highly unique smell of buring eye. Along with the painful light sensitivity that persisted for like a year. Hell I got a USB at the end with a video of the procedure to relive.

Totally worth it though

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[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have photophobia, which is not a fear of light (that's heliophobia) but a high sensitivity to light. I have to wear sunglasses essentially sunup to sundown. I keep my office lights off. My display is set to the lowest brightness and contrast settings I can get away with.

I have Transitions lenses and even those aren't strong enough sunglasses to cope with the brightness. Goodr sunglasses work really well for me as does my $600 prescription sunners. But mostly I try to avoid sunny days and live for the November through March days when the sun sets at 4 PM so I can go outside and enjoy myself.

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do you also have an urn of dirt from your homeland so you can get a restful sleep in your coffin?

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There definitely are risks and i feel doctors can be too cavalier about those risks

Having said that, i got the procedure done 5 years ago, and install have better than 20/20 vision. The only issue inhad afterwards was that i could see things up to 1cm away from my eye ball, now that is 30cm at the least and since the last year or so i cannot read the 2 pixel size texts on medicine bottles anymore

Beyond that, I'm super happy with the result

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's a lot of typos for someone with perfect vision.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 15 points 1 week ago

I happen to just like wearing glasses.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't plan to do LASIK, unless:

  • I am not able to put my glasses on;

  • When my glasses break, I am not able to go outside and drive by bus to the nearest glasses repair shop.

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[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

tbf every medical intervention has its risks but it doesn't often go wrong (assuming the surgeon knows what they're doing)

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

It is nasty if it goes wrong. I know someone where it did and he was knocked out in a pretty bad way for a while until it could be fixed (though it was fixed).

[–] Shizu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Aspirin has a risk of giving headaches..

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Anon is tyhe type of guy who looks at a California Prop 65 label and believes the worst in everything.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

night lenses,

game changer

no idea why they are so obscure (besides conspiracy theories)

wear them while sleeping. perfect eyesight.

used to wear them for a few years, stopped, because one possible side effect is that it will improve your eye sight.

I no longer need glasses.

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