>> This came up earlier this week, but wanted to repost it here since so many of you reached out about wanting to know more....<<
I literally had 30+ people asking me for more information, so it was clearly useful.. and no I wasn't shilling for anyone, though I am happy to introduce folks to my friend if they want my specific doctor.. I am interested in helping more people get LASEK however, as it is genuinely a major upgrade for your life.
There is no preview with any surgery, all you can really do is look at the probabilities of tens of thousands of procedures and speak with a surgeon.
And sure, you can have any subjective definition of success you want -- for example, if the surgery didn't allow you see through walls with x-ray vision, you could call it a failure.
I understand what you are saying though, your fear is that you'd get LASK, and then you'd still need to wear glasses or contacts.
You are talking about risks and things being much* higher -- I'd appreciate if you cite some sort of research or other statistics on LASEK.
All of that said, my quality of life is easily 10x what it was before, so for me, it was a risk well worth taking. If I would have been worse off after my surgery, I wouldn't have had to pay -- so aside from the small risk of having a small routine medical procedure (which also could be safely redone to try again if needed) there was no financial risk and minimal time..
I'm offering my personal experience and offering to answer people's questions because I had such a positive experience.
And at someone's request, introducing them to the person I used personally after a pretty exhaustive search into how to get "super human eyes".
It seems to me to pretty standard human behavior to want to share something that enhances your life with others.
Don't be an idiot and claim these eye surgeries are perfectly safe. They have serious risks, including blindness.
I am very happy with my PRK, but my colleague had his eyes bulging out because of excessive pressure and had some eye damage. But such testimonials are not so useful. Go into these surgeries expecting you could be the in the minority of people who have a complication.
Please stop shilling for whomever it is.
The main risk associated with these surgeries is that there's no "preview" to check if your vision will be better or worse than your current contact-corrected vision.
If it's worse - then by my definition, the procedure is a failure and that's the only thing I care about. The risk that it's worse isn't the same as the risk that is commonly defined in the success of the procedure - it's much higher.