Ask HN: Have you had laser eye surgery? What was your experience?
Hi, I am a long term HN member writing under an anonymous account as this is a somewhat personal issue for me. I have been short-sighted (myopia of about -5.00 in both eyes) all my life, and generally wear both contact lenses and glasses. I find contact lenses really irritate my eyes when programming (dry eyes due to less blinking when on computer) and am fed up of issues with glasses (steaming, cleaning, etc) and recently have been considering laser eye surgery. I live in the UK, and have booked consultations at the 3 main providers here - UltraLase, Optimax, Optical Express. I'll write my assessment of them each later once I go for my consultation with the last provider at the end of the month, but so far have concluded that one has to really research the area to avoid much of the nonsense that they tell patients especially with regard to equipment and surgeons used and why e.g. Ultral
Why it failed
Hi, I am a long term HN member writing under an anonymous account as this is a somewhat personal issue for me. I have been short-sighted (myopia of about -5.00 in both eyes) all my life, and generally wear both contact lenses and glasses. I find contact lenses really irritate my
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- lasik
- Ended
- 2010
- Source
- hackernews