Laser eye surgery & night vision

Have to say I've chosen not to have it despite the frustration of glasses. Talked to friends at Moorfields plus my chum who now does the proceedure for a living.
Coping with good (expensive) varifocals tho too much water around not fun.
All friends that have had it have all had good result but none drive at night or need excellent 3D vision without blurring when cutting.
Wore contacts for 35 years and occ slip them in if going out on water but find i now need glasses for close up hence move back to glasses for all activities.
Let us know what you choose to do.
 
having been not that badly shortsighted, had one eye lasered about 7 years ago, its been very sucessfull. Found that my eye's/brain ajusted well to the different vision. One left alone for reading, and the lasered eye for distance.

Would most definately choose this again. Only one eye risked & low cost.

The lasered eye always looks fresher, less red, than the untouched one. Contact len's were at times very red & painfull, dust etc. Minor, minor down sides are feeling the need to be extra carefull coming down stairs, & some slight bright light discomfort. But nothing compared to wearing glass's or contacts.

If I had had both eye's lasered (due to age) would have needed reading glass's. Have heard of buying contact lens to wear to ensure first that this would work for you, before having anything done.
 
I do so strongly endorse this post - and deplore the advertising so often seen that promises with glib abandon that all will be corrected with just a little operation - "and our personnel have over 500,000 procedures behind them...etc"

There are cases for intervention - when vision is so distorted or limited (we are talking prescriptions in double figures, not the 3's and 4's diopters common with advancing age!) that corneal shaping can produce a desirable outcome.

But there is the risk of the downside with every procedure. I would (aged 66 and prescription of +3 in each eye) never contemplate the "knife" when glasses strategically placed in the cabin solve most of the chart reading problems. Distance vision is the heart of sailing - I would never take action that could jeaopardise that.

Final point - bear also in mind what happens in the ageing eye regarding light sensitivity (as with hearing acuity) - it diminishes with time. Young crew can read in rubbish light - no amount of corneal correction to the aged eye can recover that facility!

PWG
 
I think a lot of posters are missing a crucial point in dinwood's original post. He states that his distant vision is good. In other words, there is no shortsightedness to correct; what he is experiencing is the usual loss of focusing power that is a normal (but unwelcome!) consequence of aging. Laser Surgery, no matter how wonderful for correcting short sight, can offer nothing to improve this situation as there is no defect in the basic focus of the eye.

I will also point out that while good laser surgery can have excellent results, bad surgery can result in serious loss of function. You always need to make a judgment as to whether the potential gain is worth the potential risk. I have never considered the risk worth considering, despite being qualified for most of my life for free eye-tests because of extreme short-sightedness! Contact lenses do the same job and are risk-free compared with surgery.
 
Have you noticed that most people that "didnt" have it done warn you of the dangers, yet those who did have it done are mostly enthusiastic about it!!

I had my eyes treated about 4 years ago, as stated by another I had binocular vision treatment (one for distance and one for reading) the immediate impact of being able to see across a room and recognise somebody was fab. I had to have my distance eye re-treated as I couldn't see marks in the distance but since then no problems. It is by far the best money I have ever spent (apart from a wedding licence fee /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif)

There is a downside, well there had to be........

Like another on here I do get dry eyes when tired and I also have sensitive eyes now to bright sunshine but, and for me it's a big but! I can buy normal sunglasses rather than have prescription ones.

In short for me it did make me much more comfortable as I never liked having to wear glasses and never wanted contacts.

Personally If laser treatment would fix somebody's eyesight I cant understand why they would'nt do it, it isn't painful, just uncomfortable and the effects are remarkable.

There will always be a horror story of something going wrong, as there is always possible problems with surgery, even minor surgery. It has been known for people not to survive a visit to the dentist after surgery, but that wouldn't stop most people going................ or maybe it would!

One very satisfied user of his new eyes!

Tom
 
Contact lenses do the same job and are risk-free compared with surgery.

Not true........... my son got some grit under his contacts and ended up with an ulcer on his eye............ He is so impressed with my laser vision he has now elected to have laser surgery so he wont need contacts. His consultation is in a couple of weeks.

Tom
 
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