It’s been just over a year now since I had my lasik operation and one article I’ve been meaning to write is my own personal experience with the most common complications of lasik surgery. I decided a while back to narrow this list down to the top five most common complications reported by lasik patients [...]
I remember the first time I met my lasik eye surgeon. I was sitting in his consulting room while he looked over my file. I’d had all the relevant pre-operative tests and now it was crunchtime. On the wall were a whole bunch of accreditations with abbreviations I didn’t really know the meaning of but [...]
For whatever stupid reason the Australian government classes laser eye surgery (both lasik and PRK) as ‘cosmetic surgery’. The biggest drawback of this is that you are unable to directly make a claim on medicare for the costs of the procedure. Fortunately though Australian’s receive a 20% rebate for net medical expenses over $1500 so [...]
After my day after checkup following my lasik eye surgery procedure, I was keen to see if anything had changed eyesight wise over the first week. By covering my other eye I’d noticed things like my computer monitor and had become easier to read. When I got home from the surgery I remember covering my [...]
On the day of my procedure I woke up at an ungodly 6:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep. I had that same butterflies in your stomach feeling in the pit of my stomach you used to have as a kid on Christmas morning. That feeling that reminds you something exciting was happening today. I [...]
After a decade of perfect contact lens eyes eyes going back to wearing glasses fulltime was tough. Incredibly tough. The total loss of peripheral vision, the annoyance of lenses getting dirty, being blind in the shower, oh and has anyone tried being ‘intimate’ with glasses on?! Jesus christ by the end of the two weeks [...]
At some point you realise you’ve read pretty much all you think there is to read on laser eye surgery. The differences between Lasik and PRK, the various side affects, recovery times and tens if not hundreds of testimonials. You’ve also probably spent a good deal of time trying to separate market spin from actual [...]
If you’ve conducted online research into getting laser eye surgery done then you’d know the internet is absolutely bursting at the seams with commercial spin sites and pages of copy and pasted information articles. All of this technical information is available from a billion sources and you are even given it when you go for [...]