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Originally Posted by Tomkat
no, how much was the audiobook?
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£1.30 for 3 weeks from the library. I'm more pissed off about that than the surgery money.
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
How bad were your eyes, and how much better will they become? Did they give an estimate?
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Without glasses or contacts I could only read a license plate from a couple of metres away.
My recovery so far is average, and clinical trials report that 96%+ of wavefront patients (that's me!) receive 20/20, 71% get better. Wthout wavefront about 70% of people get 20/20 and there's a higher incidence of night vision problems like glare & haloes.
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
1. I don't mind wearing contact lenses enough to fork out £2000 or so (I'd pay more to be assured of decent aftercare etc) to get them done.
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Most places offer lifetime aftercare until they discharge you and reports I've heard are good. Iirc Optical Express retreatment rates were 0.9% and the risk of serious complications under 1 in 10,000, so it's pretty safe.
If you're fine with contacts then that's cool. I hated glasses, and even with the extra breathable contact lenses my eyes hurt like a bitch after a night out. Particularly if the club uses smoke machines. And I travel & camp quite a bit and not having to **** around with bottles of contact lens fluid is ftw.
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2. We don't really know what the long term effects (20 years plus) are of doing this. For all we know, it could make people blind! That's scary!
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That's fair. I assume they'll invent something to fix the problem if one develops (& I don't see a theoretical reason for it, LASEK is non-invasive) and in 20 years I'll be rich enough to afford a solution. They'll be able to implant eyes stolen from a third world child or something. Hope they do fair trade so I don't feel bad.