Sunglasses. It'll be weird but it's probably the best way to keep the eyestrain down. My wife wore hers when at the computer for at least a couple of weeks. Also frequent breaks. They should give you some sunglasses with your procedure that'll be a bit darker than the normal stuff most people use. You should also temporarily increase the size of things like fonts, anything to make it easier on your eyes as a whole.
I had astigmatism. Supposedly surgery almost always fixes it, but sometimes they have to go back and do a small correction. My eyesight is good now without glasses, it just isn't super-hero amazing, which I'm hoping will come with time. I also had punctal plugs put in and I haven't had any issues with dry eyes, which is supposedly very common. Can't recommend it highly enough.
You can do one eye. My chart basically had multiple combinations available and left/right far/long was an option.Has anyone had LASIK on a single eye? My left eye is almost perfect (very slightly short sighted but something like 0.1) but my right is long sighted, the opposite vision types is a real pain in the arse when sat at a computer. Optician reckons glasses pretty much useless unless I start having headaches as it would be such an unbalanced prescription, although I did wear them when younger I haven't worn any for about 20 years. I did try a few years back for PC use but it may no difference and in fact made things worse if anything.
I'm thinking I may just get my right eye done, if this is possible, if I can bring this to close to that of the other one I'm thinking things should be much better, and at half the price too!
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While I have not had it done yet, I will be doing this early next year. I am getting an enhancement done on my left eye as it has faded more strongly than my right. Since it is my dominant eye they mentioned I may not have to even do a procedure on the right or could wait.Has anyone had LASIK on a single eye? My left eye is almost perfect (very slightly short sighted but something like 0.1) but my right is long sighted, the opposite vision types is a real pain in the arse when sat at a computer. Optician reckons glasses pretty much useless unless I start having headaches as it would be such an unbalanced prescription, although I did wear them when younger I haven't worn any for about 20 years. I did try a few years back for PC use but it may no difference and in fact made things worse if anything.
I'm thinking I may just get my right eye done, if this is possible, if I can bring this to close to that of the other one I'm thinking things should be much better, and at half the price too!
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Well worth it and I am just 24 hours after getting it done. I am not having any light sensitivity issues, no halos, and dryness is minimal. I may be an uncommon case, but so far, I am not having any of the (short term) side-effects. The only unpleasant thing I have is the Pred Forte eye-drops leave a very metallic and nasty taste in my mouth a few minutes after taking the drops.
Haha! There are some mediciations that taken via the eye allows you to actually taste them in the back of your mouth, this being one of them. My sister said a lot of her patients have similar reactions to this stuff and it is quite disgusting tasting when it hits you. Takes about 3-4 minutes then you'll swallow and get a full-fledged taste of it. Was a very "wtf" moment when it first happened.
If you're a surgeon at a hospital, most local LASIK places will offer it to them for free just to say "the place the doctors go." It is pretty affordable now as my place was offering 24-month no-interest financing through CareCredit.
