Have you or would you?

[NurseDianne]

I have a question for all of ya'll. Would you or have you ever had corrective eye surgery? Why? Did it work? How old were you when you did it?

I am currently 40 yrs old. I have been wearing glasses/contacts since 3rd grade and my eyesite just gets worse over time. I would love to just once be able to go to the beach and see while I swim. Or wake up and see the clock w/o searching for my glasses.

I'm just interested and will set up a poll.

thanks for the input. It's a lot of money and I want to be sure.

[road runner2003]

I'd love to have it done - but I'd be too 'chicken'

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Thanks for starting this thread. I want to have it and was just talking about it the other day to spouse. I'm not sure if I want it and still have to wear reading glasses. Because I read a lot and am on the computer, here and at work quite a bit.

But I would so love to get rid of the glasses I've had four nearly 40 years.

sjoe, thanks for your input. My vision is very very very poor without my glasses, so I wonder if I would fall in a category like you. But I seriously want to look into it.

[Katnip, RN]

Renarian, LASIK was never meant to be for reading, it's distance correction only. There is a separate procedure for reading, but you can't do both.

Right now, I wear only one contact instead of bifocals to see if I want to do permanent monovision with LASIK. So far it's working out ok. Only once in a while does it get weird, and it corrects with a blink.

[nurse2be in ny]

Just the thought of someone messing with my eyeballs is enough to turn me off.