Wow, my left eye is really getting bad

Tiltsta

Tiltsta

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Got new glasses today, and my left eye is clearly going to hell faster than my right. Check out the thickness difference of the two lenses in my new specs. Left eye is a coke bottle bottom.

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That's not so bad. I think Mrs. P. was something like -9.25 in both eyes before she had LASIK.

Her glasses used to be THICK.
 
i need new glasses. my eyes are noticably getting worse.....but staring at computer screens all day certainly don't help.
 
My "readers" look like that, too, but only because I have amblyopia in the left eye, and it results in permanent blurred, non-correctable vision, although the lens does help ever-so-slightly.
 
I'd love to get that done, but they can't correct for my left eye defect. I had a bunch of eye surgery to correct for double vision as a kid, and they mostly fixed it, but apparently the remaining issues make me not a LASIK patient.

I only need these for reading. My distance vision is fine.
 
Steverino said:
Are those lenses hi-index?
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No. The requirements I need to wear them at work as safety glasses in the lab kind of eliminates the value of hi index. The impact and chem safety requirements make high index about as thick as my normal glasses
 
Tiltsta said:
I'd love to get that done, but they can't correct for my left eye defect. I had a bunch of eye surgery to correct for double vision as a kid, and they mostly fixed it, but apparently the remaining issues make me not a LASIK patient.

I only need these for reading. My distance vision is fine.
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That sucks. Mrs. P. Went from -9.25 to about -.25. She could go back and have that corrected, but hasn't done it yet.

It's nice not having her be completely blind. I always used to worry about her losing her glasses when she was home alone.

Now she has better vision than I do.
 
Prages said:
That sucks. Mrs. P. Went from -9.25 to about -.25. She could go back and have that corrected, but hasn't done it yet.

It's nice not having her be completely blind. I always used to worry about her losing her glasses when she was home alone.

Now she has better vision than I do.
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Yeah, my sister in law had it done about 15 years ago. She went from thick glasses all the time to no glassss at all. She is a huge fan of LASIK. She literally kept her glasses by the bed, as she couldn't see a thing without them, even to turn off her alarm clock.
 
Prages said:
That's not so bad. I think Mrs. P. was something like -9.25 in both eyes before she had LASIK.

Her glasses used to be THICK.
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Hmmm......and the LASIK worked well for her - right?

My eyes are a bit worse than hers (-9.25 and -10.50) and the eye doctor told me LASIK would not work for me. Granted, that was not a LASIK doc.
 
There goes your boxing career. Mojo.

You should also move to the UK in order to be able to drive more safely.
 
Denverdave said:
Hmmm......and the LASIK worked well for her - right?

My eyes are a bit worse than hers (-9.25 and -10.50) and the eye doctor told me LASIK would not work for me. Granted, that was not a LASIK doc.
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It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the quality of your natural vision. A person with -11 eyes might be a better candidate than a person with -2.
 
There's Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez, and there's Tilt 'Right Eye' Sta :tongue:

I've thought about getting LASIK myself, but I doubt it would help me get any metal babes anyways, so I figure why bother? :gu:
 
I was -11.25 (right) and -9.50 (left) until LASIK.
Boy what was a great decision it was for me to have that done.
I wish I had been able to that earlier but the tech wasn't far enough along when I was younger.

One things for sure:
Readers are way easier to get than my crazy prescription that I was unable to function without.

I once had to be escorted onto a plane by a stewardess because when I lost my prescription glasses in the surf in Florida on vacation once - I was essentially non-functional after losing those very expensive specs.

I never thought I was a candidate but my wife's older sis (who had a comparable prescription but maybe not quite as bad) was able to get her eyes fixed so I went to the same guy: Whitingclinic.com.

Basically what it came down to for "good criteria" was the thickness of my cornea (it was thick enough) and a genetic component (they did a little cheek swab and sent it off to a lab to see if I carried a gene that makes my eyes prone to certain catataract like conditions later - I don't carry that gene so I was good) and a few other things. A normal eye exam was part of the process too. Due to the complexity of my prescription I had to have their "All Laser" process.

It literally took under two minutes for the whole process (after about 45 minutes of prep) and then I took a long nap. When I woke I could see and the next day I was 20/15. After a follow up a month later, then three months, then six months I seem to have stabilized at 20/20 which is fine with me.

I still need readers to use the computer which is fine, I'm over 50 after all and there are certain conditions where if I use the computer a lot (I have to for my day gig) or don't drink enough water my eyes seem more susceptible to eye-strain but not too bad.

All in all, would do again.
 
Both of my lenses would be coke bottles if I didn't buy the super thin high index lenses. I'm not a good candidate for LASIK.
 
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