Lasik

appifanie · **Posted:** Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:59 pm

Jill - thanks! I'm sorry it didn't go better for you :(

appifanie · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:04 pm

march 9th!

Ruby Rose · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:06 pm

Hooray! Well done!

appifanie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:07 pm

in my glasses, waiting for friday afternoon!

torque · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:53 pm

Good for you!!! Hope everything goes perfectly!

gwenc02 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:42 pm

Good luck! I'm making my appointment for my consult tomorrow :)

appifanie · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:47 pm

thanks torque!!

gwen! good luck! :)

gwenc02 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:31 pm

Thank you! My appointment is March 19th. :)

Good luck to you tomorrow - here's hoping you wake up with perfect vision!

Amy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:53 pm

Good luck, appifanie! Hope it goes really well! :)

Tofulish · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:11 pm

Good luck appifanie! I've heard its pretty amazing once you get past those first few days of discomfort.

JillW · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:53 pm

Yes good luck to all! Soon you will see the leaves on trees.

matwinser · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:32 pm **Posts:** 1517

appifanie wrote:

rohai wrote:

My hubby checked into it, but he is not a candidate since his corneas are too thin. A coworker of mine had it done, one eye is great, the other he had to have redone and it still isn't much better so he still has to wear glasses.

glasses for only one eye!! that is sad. can he wear a contact?

I think you mean, can he wear a monocle?

Mat.

appifanie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:40 pm

I'm now 20/20 though it does fade in and out a bit - it's sort of like wearing dry contacts at this point. I described the procedure as what happens after you're abducted by aliens (funny noises, flashing lights, a bit of fear) and then the pain after is like when you have an eyelash stuck in your eye and it hurts whether you open or close it.

matwinser wrote:

appifanie wrote:

rohai wrote:

My hubby checked into it, but he is not a candidate since his corneas are too thin. A coworker of mine had it done, one eye is great, the other he had to have redone and it still isn't much better so he still has to wear glasses.

glasses for only one eye!! that is sad. can he wear a contact?

I think you mean, can he wear a monocle?

Mat.

YES! I think he must.

JillW · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:02 pm

congrats appifanie. I hope it's getting better everyday.

appifanie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:12 pm

i'm mostly good! i'm actually going to write up an account on my blog some day soon of exactly how my experience went for people to see.

ScooterDiva · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:46 pm **Posts:** 2027

appifanie wrote:

i'm mostly good! i'm actually going to write up an account on my blog some day soon of exactly how my experience went for people to see.

Ha ha. Touche'!

mrsbadmouth · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:00 am

I'm glad it went well! Brian had a different procedure done while he was enlisted, he was pretty miserable and high on pain killers for a few days.

Rowan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:26 pm

Yay! I'm glad it worked for you.

I had PRK on my left eye when I was 14. It was a specialized thing for kids with vision problems who could be helped by the procedure, so my experience is probably really different. I found the first day pretty uncomfortable when the drugs wore off, but it improved my good eyes vision which is boasty. I think they had to do it in this weird specific way as my eye had been forked around with before. Oh! And I didn't have to worry about keeping my eyes open cause I was under general. Oh! and the gubbmint covered it, which is splendid.

appifanie · **Posted:** Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:18 pm

haha scooter!

mbm that stinks! the soldiers i know who have had it here are all super pleased. i guess womack can get something right after all (jerk offs).

rowan - general! i wish. :D

my lasik post - http://imnotstarving.blogspot.com/2012/ ... ience.html

appifanie · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:07 pm

almost 3 weeks post op and my eyes and i are almost totally normal. sometimes they fuzz up a bit and I have trouble telling lasik fuzz from a migraine aura, and when i open my eyes after showering i'm briefly afraid i lifted the flap (not possible at this point), and some days i don't even need eye drops (but i do a few anyway to be safe). it's an amazing relief not to deal with contacts or glasses and i quite love it. LOVE. totally worth the brief freaky surgery and the 6 hours of discomfort after if one can swing it cash wise.

torque · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:27 am

So happy to hear it!

BUT

appifanie wrote:

i'm briefly afraid i lifted the flap]

OMFG! *barfs into garbage can*

appifanie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:13 am

haha! it isn't possible! it's just my paranoid brain.

Tofulish · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:23 am

So happy it all went well!

I am still too scared and the words "lift the flap" really didn't help :)

appifanie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:33 am

well you can't tell :D it never ever hurt and i was only freaked because i wanted a hand to hold (will was with livi) and they tell you to sleep through the first 5-6 hours (hence the valium which was a fail for me).

Ruby Rose · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:44 am

"Lift the flap" gave me the heebie-jeebies too - and I've had the procedure! It's totally *not* a big thing - and if that makes you put off getting it done, you'll kick yourself when you do get around to it. And when I had mine done, they didn't require me to sleep for 5 hours or anything like that. I had to rest in a dimly lit room for half an hour while they did the next patient, then I had an eye test, then I got the train home.

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