Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands

Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by tovkal on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:43AM (#14097555)

My fear with LASIK (and the other procedures) is that there isn't (I think) a ton of people who have had LASIK when they were younger (like 20) and lived up to 90 years old to know if there might be issues as we age, or incompatibility with other procedures... I worry that it could cause problems further down the line, as we age.

There's lot of people who've had these procedures done, mostly without consequences but some with issues of varying degrees of severity, but there is not a ton of people who've had this early in their life and been fine for 70 years.

Though I suppose plenty of people were corrected in their 50s or older and lived much longer and never had an issue.

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by Retric on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:00PM (#14100100)

LASIK dates back to 1983, so that's ~33 years worth of age related data. AKA some people aging from 25 - 58 and other doing 57 - 90, plus plenty of people in between. Also, considering how common it is there will be plenty of guinea pigs for the next LASIK alternative.

Further, people with Lasik will still get near or far sighted with age, but they tend to be better able to function without glasses.

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by cma on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:37AM (#14098709)

> Though I suppose plenty of people were corrected in their 50s or older and lived much longer and never had an issue.

There was probably some animal testing too, with animals that age faster than us but still undergo similar changes.

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