# Laser eye surgery

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laser-eye-surgery/14823>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [July 20, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laser-eye-surgery/14823 "2006-07-20T09:51:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laser-eye-surgery/14823/21 "2006-07-20T22:05:15Z")

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> [@Janny](#):
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> I hear “WAIT for better technology” on the eye streets.
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> go find an optometrist who’s gotten it… you probably won’t find any because they’re all wearing glasses still.  
> (they’re waiting)
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> so you should wait. I’ve heard way too many “not a success” stories to get it yet. it’s not perfected… everyone who’s gotten it so far is pretty much a guinea pig.

Haha where exactly are the eye streets? As of 2004, 8.1 million “guinea pigs” have had laser vision correction in the US alone (17.8 million worldwide) and the only major criticism of the procedure is that not everyone achieves 20/20 or better vision. Laser vision correction has been around for 13 years and lamellar surgery (cutting a flap) has been around for 35 years. The technology is here. It works well. It may improve in the future, but so does everything. Do you want to hold off till next years model to come out before you buy? Well, that’s an individual’s decision that can be aided by real research, not observing that you haven’t met an optometrist that has had laser vision correction.

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**Author:** ![drvnkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/drvnkd/32/109615_2.png) [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laser-eye-surgery/14823/22 "2006-07-21T04:59:24Z")

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save some money and do it yourself.  
[http://www.lasikathome.com/](http://www.lasikathome.com/)

😃

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**Author:** ![Deuce](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deuce/32/7614_2.png) [@Deuce](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Deuce)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laser-eye-surgery/14823/23 "2006-07-21T08:14:45Z")

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what is the difference between PRK and lasik?

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**Author:** ![benji86](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/benji86/32/7309_2.png) [@benji86](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/benji86)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laser-eye-surgery/14823/24 "2006-07-21T08:23:45Z")

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> [@drvnkd](#):
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> save some money and do it yourself.  
> [http://www.lasikathome.com/](http://www.lasikathome.com/)
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> 😃

LOL, if people have actually bought that and done it… i really dont know what to say to that… that’s just begging for you to make yourself blind by fucking it up… jeez.

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**Author:** ![bladez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bladez/32/7237_2.png) [@bladez](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bladez)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laser-eye-surgery/14823/25 "2006-07-21T09:57:19Z")

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> [@LAFENGAS](#):
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> I wore glasses/contacts for 20 years… had laser eye surgery last september and haven’t had a single problem
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> i see 20/15 now.

:word: me too, had mine done under the PRK procedure at Fichte since my cornea wasn’t thick enough to have Lasik done

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