The type where they fix one eye to see better close, and the other to see better far away?
Wondering how long it would take to get used to something like that. Do you need to ‘close’ one eye at a time when looking at distances or close up, like a book?
I’ve always had a tough time finding eyeglasses that really fit well, and just starting to explore some options that might make glasses not needed anymore.
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I have a stigmatism. I’m far sighted in one eye and near sighted in the other. I can’t wear readers , they don’t work for people like me. I have no experience with lasik period.
I know two people who've had it done and loved it, and I know a couple of others who couldn't make it through the trial period with contact lenses. Seems to be an either your brain can make it work or it can't sort of thing. So, give it a try with contacts or a set of glasses and see? Of course, worth noting none of the ones I know ride motorcycles or anything like that, either.
My wife did that, she loves it. I do that with my contacts, I lose some depth perception. I switch to a normal contact when I ride.
I did it about 6-7 years ago.
Quick 3 minute procedure, wife obviously drove me home, and I followed the instructions to take it easy for a bit.
I could see fine just a few hours after the procedure, it does take your brain a few days to adapt to which eye can see what distances. But it does adapt, best money I have spent.
Edit to add- to clarify your question, no you don't have to close one eye to read or see longer distances. Your brain will gradually figure it out and know which eye to "use" depending on what you are focusing on.
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Sometimes called "pollitician vision" so they can read teleprompter and recognize faces in the crowd. It was pitched to me for fixing my old eyes but decided to keep wearing glasses. It took about a month for my brain to reprogram seeing through my progressive lenses but after that everything just "works" I suspect the same learning process for that procedure also.
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I have mono vision using contacts. No problem whatsoever. I knew it would work because I lost a contact and wore only one for a week. Now my wife didn’t like it at all.
Had my cataracts done that way except I had one intentionally nearsighted and the other one not so near sighted. I have good room distance vision. Either up close or about 10 feet away. I use glasses for distance which I only need for driving and golf.
Not mono vision but did have an issue with my left eye after lasik. It took about a full year to not be a problem. It doesn't seem like it'll be 100% but it's not bad now. Dr. never had to deal with it before. DLK.
3 minutes? Holy cow!
I am just tired of glasses. My distance prescription is very, very slight but it does make a little bit of an improvement over no prescription at all. About 15-20 years ago, the fine print began getting smaller and smaller so I wore cheap Costco readers for several years when needed, no glasses for distance vision. Around 10-12 years ago (I think), I went to bifocals mostly so I didn't have to keep putting my readers on and off all the time. I can still pass the drivers license eye test without glasses, but if I am driving I have a hard time seeing things like the small writing on my phone GPS, etc. so I wear glasses most of the time now (95%+). I didn't know that they had contacts that work really well for reading/far sightedness. I don't know if I can try the contact route, as my eyes are really sensitive and I probably end up with at least one eyelash a day causing me problems already.
Yes, those Lasik surgeons operate like an assembly line. And at the one I was at, they had floor to ceiling windows so your spouse can sit and watch from just a few feet away.
They just numb your eye, then lay you down in a chair and put this viewing contraption over your eye. You can literally see the laser device doing it's thing (blurry but you can see the motion). Then they get you up, have you walk a few feet to another table, and finish the job.
Walk in, walk out, wasn't maybe 3 minutes (maybe 5 minutes if you include the pre-op numbing of the eye).
A word of caution, My friend had Lasik when he was younger. When it came time for cataract surgery i really complicated the process. It ended up costing many many thousands and his vision is now permanently fucked. Maybe do a little checking on that before you pull the trigger.
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