LASIK or other eye surgery for astigmatism?
Kimberly G asked:
I’ve heard mixed things about getting corrective eye surgery if you have astigmatism. I’d like to hear from people who’ve had this done or know someone who has, who had bad astigmatism.
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I’ve heard mixed things about getting corrective eye surgery if you have astigmatism. I’d like to hear from people who’ve had this done or know someone who has, who had bad astigmatism.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Kim -
I was in your shoes 10 months ago. I had terrible astigmatism. I went in for the free evaluation that a surgeon was offering. He was confident that he could help me.
Due to my having thin corneas, he performed Epi-Lasik, instead of Lasik (only difference that you need to worry about with those is Epi-Lasik has a longer & slightly more painful recovery time and I was not able to see CLEARLY for around 3 months - I was NOT aware of THAT going in).
Point of the story is though, that I CAN see very clearly now, I think my vision is 20/15. It’s so wonderful not to depend on contacts when I had been wearing them for more than half of my life!
I hope you can find a surgeon as skilled as the one I found!
Good luck to you.