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Anonymous
I've had laser eye surgery. More precisely, PRK, since it has fewer post-op complications and is the better option for the military. [not a big chance of your cornea popping off, like with lasik.]
Anyways, don't scratch your eyes, at all. It'll only make it worse. If it's bothersome [and it will be for at least the first 3 days] use the analgesic eye drops they gave you.
Never, EVER skip putting your eyedrops in. These are your fucking eyes. If you screw up and don't use your medicine, you're just asking for trouble.
Anyways, I went from having 20/600 vision to 20/20. Cost me nearly $3000 to have both eyes done. The procedure itself [I had PRK, don't know about Lasik] is almost completely painless. IIRC the operation goes something like this:
-Lie down on the operating bed, face towards the ceiling. -Doctor puts eyeclamps on your eyes. [Uncomfortable, but painless.] -Nurse puts anesthetics in your eyes [These sting a little.] -Wait 30 seconds, doctor moves giant machine over your head. -Nurse adds more eye drops. Not sure what. You don't feel them, thanks to the anesthetic. -Doc takes a sponge and wipes the first two epithelial layers of your cornea off. Completely painless - The only thing you'll notice changing is that you're utterly fucking blind now. Everything is bright colors. -The giant machine is positioned over one eye, you'll see two red starbursts. [Seriously, that's it; your entire vision is taken up by them, you're pretty blind at this point.] -You stare at the bigger starburst for 30 seconds. You'll hear the machine turn on, and you'll feel the laser, it's almost like a pinch, but it doesn't hurt, you can just feel something moving inside your eye. You will smell burnt hair, that's just the laser cutting into your eye. -Laser finishes, machine is lifted up, nurse irrigates the eye with saline or something [feels nice and cool]. Now you move onto the next eye.
Total time: 5-10 minutes.
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