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![]() gatt wrote: Anybody had lasik surgery? My vision is stable, correctable to 20/20, but things like pollen or the neighbor mowing his yard can bother my contact lenses. Glasses suck and contacts aren't good for your eyes over time, so my wife is encouraging lasik. The #1 facility in the region is half a block away from my workplace and they have a deal with our company which is why I know so many people who've had it, but I'm still undecided. Everybody I've known personally who has had it done raves about it, no bad experiences at all...but none of them fly. Thoughts? -c I had PRK (the pre-cursor to LASIK) 10 years ago, and I still have 20/15 vision and almost no astygmatism. It was well worth the money. I have been flying since 1991. Dean |
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I had Lasik last September.
It took ten minutes. There was no recovery time after the anesthetic wore off in about two hours. There was no pain ever and there were no complications. I LOVE seeing 20/20. I do have to wear close up readers, but I had to do that anyway. Karl "curator" "Richard Riley" wrote in message oups.com... wrote: ? -c I had PRK (the pre-cursor to LASIK) 10 years ago, and I still have 20/15 vision and almost no astygmatism. It was well worth the money. I have been flying since 1991. I also had PRK. The recovery time is longer, but the complication rate is virtually zero. The complication rate on LASIK is low, but PRK is lower. Very happy I had it. |
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![]() "Richard Riley" wrote in message oups.com... wrote: ? -c I had PRK (the pre-cursor to LASIK) 10 years ago, and I still have 20/15 vision and almost no astygmatism. It was well worth the money. I have been flying since 1991. I also had PRK. The recovery time is longer, but the complication rate is virtually zero. The complication rate on LASIK is low, but PRK is lower. Do you have a cite for that? |
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![]() Matt Barrow wrote: Do you have a cite for that? Was told to me by Dr. James Freeman, an opthamologist and pilot (Cirrus, RV-8 and Air-Cam) from Memphis. He was one of the first to do LASIK and does a lot of them, but my correction was fairly small so he recommended PRK. He posts to the rec.av groups on occasion. Basically, with PRK you're waiting for the epithilium to re-grow, and that takes a while. With LASIK you aren't waiting for it, but there's a possibility of the flap getting a wrinkle when it's replaced, being mis-positioned, that kind of thing. |
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![]() "Richard Riley" wrote in message oups.com... Matt Barrow wrote: Do you have a cite for that? Was told to me by Dr. James Freeman, an opthamologist and pilot (Cirrus, RV-8 and Air-Cam) from Memphis. He was one of the first to do LASIK and does a lot of them, but my correction was fairly small so he recommended PRK. He posts to the rec.av groups on occasion. Okay. Basically, with PRK you're waiting for the epithilium to re-grow, and that takes a while. With LASIK you aren't waiting for it, but there's a possibility of the flap getting a wrinkle when it's replaced, being mis-positioned, that kind of thing. IIRC, the slip-ups with PRK could be even more devastating. |
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![]() Matt Barrow wrote: Do you have a cite for that? Was told to me by Dr. James Freeman, an opthamologist and pilot (Cirrus, RV-8 and Air-Cam) from Memphis. He was one of the first to do LASIK and does a lot of them, but my correction was fairly small so he recommended PRK. He posts to the rec.av groups on occasion. Basically, with PRK you're waiting for the epithilium to re-grow, and that takes a while. With LASIK you aren't waiting for it, but there's a possibility of the flap getting a wrinkle when it's replaced, being mis-positioned, that kind of thing. |
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