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frontpagereptarSnax posted Mar 12, 2024 10:19 PM
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The cost was offset by not paying several hundred each year for the rest of your life in glasses, contacts, and eye exam and contact fitting fees. Once you realize you are going to be paying for contacts/lens solution/glasses/exams/insurance for the rest of your life it is clear that long term cost is a wash whether you have corrective surgery or not, assuming you are relatively young, you will save money long term by doing the procedure.
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I did a TON of research on this before making my decision. I read through lots of published studies. The pros of laser corrective surgery outweighed the cons. However everyone's case is different. The reason it took me so long to decide to get it done was because I had concerns about the long term consequences of the procedure so I played it safe and continued with the biofinities. What I'm going to say applies to me as a formerly near sighted person. These are indisputable facts: everyone's vision changes over time, especially close up vision (presbyopia). Without or without laser correction you WILL need reading glasses at some point if you are using contacts to see farther as the contacts are correcting your near-sightedness. So you will be wearing reading glasses over your contacts starting when you are around 45-50. If you don't do the surgery and remove your contacts you will have the benefit of near sighted vision past the age when most people start wearing reading glasses. In terms of other vision changes, whether you get the surgery or not, many older people have cataracts issues later. In terms of general vision changes, most adults have relatively stable vision (prescription numbers) over the years. I can tell you that my glasses/contacts prescription number was exactly the same at 18 as it was at 38. However, if there are changes surgeons offer touchups on one or both eyes that you can do likely years or decades later if you need to. Most of the surgeons I went to had plans where if you paid for annual eye exams at that same office after your lasik/prk, you would have free lifetime touchup procedures.
As for cost, I had mine done in the Los Angeles (Beverly Hills) area by a top surgeon. LA is going to be at the high range for prices in the US. It was in the $6000 range, but the cost is secondary to how comfortable you are with the surgeon and office, so don't shop for price. Eyes are literally the last things you want to save money on. Also , when given the choice beteween PRK and lasik, I went with PRK, which maintains more of your original eye compared to lasik but had a more difficult recovery (months of eye drops).
The cost was 100% offset by not paying several hundred each year for the rest of your life in glasses, contacts, and eye exam and contact fitting fees. Once you realize you are going to be paying for contacts/lens solution/glasses/exams/insurance for the rest of your life it is clear that long term cost is a wash whether you have corrective surgery or not, assuming you are relatively young, will save you money long term by doing the procedure.
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I spent years deciding and did a TON of research on this before making my decision. I read through lots of published studies. The pros of laser corrective surgery outweighed the cons. However everyone's case is different. The reason it took me so long to decide to get it done was because I had concerns about the long term consequences of the procedure so I played it safe and continued with the biofinities. What I'm going to say applies to me as a formerly near sighted person. These are indisputable facts: everyone's vision changes over time, especially close up vision (presbyopia). Without or without laser correction you WILL need reading glasses at some point if you are using contacts to see farther as the contacts are correcting your near-sightedness. So you will be wearing reading glasses OVER your contacts starting when you are around 45-50. If you don't do the surgery and remove your contacts you will have the benefit of near sighted vision past the age when most people start wearing reading glasses. In terms of other vision changes, whether you get the surgery or not, many older people have cataracts issues later. In terms of general vision changes, most adults have relatively stable vision (prescription numbers) over the years. I can tell you that my glasses/contacts prescription number was exactly the same at 18 as it was at 38. However, if there are changes surgeons offer touchups on one or both eyes that you can do likely years or decades later if you need to. Most of the surgeons I went to had plans where if you paid for annual eye exams at that same office after your lasik/prk, you would have free lifetime touchup procedures. The annual eye exams at the surgeons offices I visited were approximately the same as what you would pay cash for a standard eye exam at a optometrist around 200-250 a year.
As for cost, I had mine done in the Los Angeles area by a top surgeon. LA is going to be at the high range for prices in the US. It was in the $6000 range, but the cost is secondary to how comfortable you are with the surgeon and office, so don't shop for price. Eyes are literally the last things you want to save money on. Also , when given the choice beteween PRK and lasik, I went with PRK, which maintains more of your original eye compared to lasik but had a more difficult recovery (months of eye drops). Although the doctor assured me it was safe and had done lasik done in his own eyes in the past, I was not thrilled with the idea of a permanent flap opening that never heals with the lasik procedure. The main take away that I determined from my research is that most important factor in a successful procedure is not the procedure itself (PRK or lasik) or the machine type, but how many procedures the surgeon has done (experience).
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