I am now sitting at home convalescing after getting laser corrective surgery on Thursday. I had PRK since the Navy hasn't approved LASIK for aviators, so there was a little more post-op pain than I would have had with LASIK. But with the help of my good friend Percocet it has been a piece of cake. It also takes a little longer to heal and consequently a little longer to find out what my final vision will be, but talking to a bunch of other people who have had the surgery, I should be somewhere between 20/20 and 20/10. Pretty remarkable considering I started at worse than 20/400. God bless modern medicine.
I had Lasik don about 2 years ago and I couldn't be happier with the procedure. I was about 20/200 and after the surgery I was 20/10. Currently I'm running about 20/20.
No complaints here except for from the women that say they miss my studious bald with glasses look.
__________________ Willing is not enough, we must do. Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
--Bruce Lee
With LASIK they cut open a flap of your cornea, peel it back, zap you with the laser, put the flap back. With PRK, the take this little instrument that looks like an electric toothbrush and scrub away the surface layer of your cornea and then zap you with the laser. Both have roughly the same results but LASIK supposedly has a faster heal time and less pain/discomfort. But the Navy hasn't approved it for aviators so if I had that done I could never fly again. I'll take a day or two of discomfort.
With LASIK they cut open a flap of your cornea, peel it back, zap you with the laser, put the flap back. With PRK, the take this little instrument that looks like an electric toothbrush and scrub away the surface layer of your cornea and then zap you with the laser. Both have roughly the same results but LASIK supposedly has a faster heal time and less pain/discomfort. But the Navy hasn't approved it for aviators so if I had that done I could never fly again. I'll take a day or two of discomfort.
I sounds like the procedures are very similar, so why would the navy approve one over the other. I thought LASIK was actually better than it's counterpart PRK?
The issue is that with LASIK they cut open a flap of your cornea, zap you with the laser, and then put the flap back and it heals. There hasn't been enough testing to see how well that seam from the flap holds up to pulling G's and pressurization changes associated with flying after it heals. It would probably be no problem, but there hasn't been any testing.
The issue is that with LASIK they cut open a flap of your cornea, zap you with the laser, and then put the flap back and it heals. There hasn't been enough testing to see how well that seam from the flap holds up to pulling G's and pressurization changes associated with flying after it heals. It would probably be no problem, but there hasn't been any testing.
It seems like they would be testing it, seeing as how LASIK has become so popular now.
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Just got my eyes cut
I'm having LASIK done next month. Yays for free surgery!
