I was wondering, how many of you guys wear glasses or contact lenses. Has anyone had eye surgery such as LASIK? I’m asking because i’ve worn glasses for years and years, with a short stint with contact lenses. I was specifically wondering about LASIK. Have any of you had it? what was the outcome? was it worth it? The more I look into it, the less promising it seems. I might just switch back to contacts or both glasses/contacts. Let me know what you think. 
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Hey man. Yeah, I started with the reading glasses when I hit my mid 40’s and it got worse from there. Now I can’t read a dam thing without them. Can still see perfectly fine at a distance but my reading is a bust, lol. I looked into the laser surgery and what they do for me is make one eye short sighted and one long sighted so you got both and apparently you adjust to it. I will stick with the reading glasses. I am sure it has worked for many since it’s still a thing but I am not letting anyone mess around with my eyes.
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yeah, one of my main concerns is that they’ll mess up and make me blind. can’t live like that.
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I had a friend get lens implants. It’s more costly than laser, but also reversible.
Personally I’m a lot more comfortable with a corneal implant compared to having my eyeballs hardboiled with a laser.
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They did good things for my mother so it’s not without merit. One eye at a time as well. But I get the hesitancy, I share it.
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Sometimes I wake up suddenly, and as I look clearly around the room I realize my dreams have come true.
Then I blink and realize I fell asleep with my contacts again. After all these years it still gets my hopes up.
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I am stuck being blind wearing glasses. It sucks, but its the way it goes.
Don’t want to go with contact lenses, cause when I go back to work I am around welding, and contact lenses and welding don’t go well together.
Being slightly colour blind doesn’t help either.
I recently found out why my ph levels have been way off. I can’t see the colours properly on the ph test strips, so I had to buy a digital ph meter. 
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yeah, melting contacts is no joke.
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this happened to me once, only i wasn’t wearing contacts or glasses, i know i could see for a minute but i can’t explain it.
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Sometimes I wish I was a candidate, but eye stuff freaks me out anyway! I’ve had glasses since I was 5, so I have equal parts love and hate for having to have my goggles on at all times.
My friend worked at a laser eye surgery for several years though, and it all seems like a very routine thing, safer than ever now, since it isn’t new anymore. I never heard any wild stories of things gone wrong, if that helps haha
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I used to feel squeamish about eye surgery, until I watched videos of eye surgery with the voiceover of the surgeon calmly explaining the process. That’s when I realized this is as pedestrian as it gets for an eye surgeon.
People have been doing eye surgery for a long time too:
https://www.aao.org/senior-ophthalmologists/scope/article/sushruta
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Oh man, I’ve got bad eye genetics thanks to my mom and her mom. Very near sighted, slight astigmatism and recently told i might develope glaucoma (my grandma went blind due to it, my mom is on medication for it and my sister is being watched for it🤦). Losing my sight scares the shit out of me and when i looked up marijuana for glaucoma i found that it can actually be worse in the long run…double fuck. I was also a steal fabricator/welder for 10 years and now I’m back in the industrial metal trades around alot of stainless tig welding.
I’ve worn glasses since elementary school. I was poor for half my life and didn’t have medical benefits for the longest time either so I lived with scratched up glasses for long stretches. The worst part was not being able to see while wearing sunglasses…how do you check out girls at the beach?!?. I tried to get prescription sunglasses but they couldn’t put my prescription in the curve of the lenses. I always hated touching my eyes but eventually I bit the bullet and tried contacts. I’ve been using one a days for a few years now and it’s been wonderful, although there are things to watch out for. You can’t wear them for too many hours per day or risk blood vessel growth around the cornea or something like that. Hard when you work 12hr shifts.
So I got the tests done and looked into Lasik…with my issues they quoted me an astronomical amount even a year ago and my benefits only cover a fraction of that. Plus the potential side effect of the snowflake effect when driving at night. I do alot of night driving on the highway and already have a slight snowflake effect due to astigmatism. And eventually I would still need reading glasses…im almost 40 already, so I wrote off the idea.
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@Fitzera
so how are the one-a -days compared to regular ones. are they really 1 a day or can you wear them for 3 days? even 7? or are they trash after 1 day?
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I got the astigmatism too. Can’t remember if its both eyes…but I know its one eye for sure.
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same. i think in 1 eye. i’m near sighted but even with my glasses my near vision is a lot worse than it was before. i can’t read my computer screen or close things without my glasses anymore. haven’t been able to see far for like 20 years
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No I wouldn’t recommend wearing them more than a day and they recommend 8hrs at a time for contacts before you give your eyes some air. The optometrist did give me contact containers and liquid so I guess I could try but I found they can get pretty dry after a while. I do push it to 12hrs just due to shift work. I’ve fallen asleep with them in and yeah they dry out quite a bit.
Part of the reason I do the one a days is because my line of work, there’s alot of potential to get debris/sparks or chemicals in the eyes so I figure if that happens its no big deal to toss them out. I’ve never ran the regular ones though so I can’t compare. One a days are more expensive and my benefits only cover a set amount per year for contacts, but like I said I feel they’re the better option for me.
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My buddy had it done back in the day $5K per eye ball…to me it’s not the money, I just don’t want to be the 1% that fucks up my eyes, anything can happen folks. I tried contact lens but it’s not for me, don’t want a foreign object on my eyeballs…I love wearing glasses, been wearing them most of my life and it’s just an added extra protection for my eyes…you don’t know how many times wearing eye glasses have saved my eyes because of accidents from fly fishing, hunting, working with tools etc…
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I had lasik done almost 20 years ago. I was extremely near sighted(coke bottle glasses) and also had an astigmatism. I am very happy i had it done.
I did have a couple of issues. I had to have one eye re-lasiked after a couple of months because I wasn’t happy with the result. I also had some issues with intense glare when driving at night. The glare issues eventually resolved itself.
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Buy some Cbd seeds they will cure your vision
Yes you have to cram them in your tear ducts.
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