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Don't go cheap with your eyes! Paying more does not guarantee complete success, but going to 1-800-BLINDME is an invitation to disaster. Do you really trust a place that advertises $299.99 per eye?
Do your homework on the clinic and the doctor.
I got LASIK in 1998 and it was touchy because I have a problem with my eyes. But the doctor was good and everything worked out. Went without glasses for 5 years (until I needed cataract surgery). Even now, the glasses are mostly for reading.
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Curiously enough today I'm using glasses for first time. After several months of red eyes and slight headaches I decided to check my vision. The result: my new glasses.  I bought them with an anti-reflecting coating for computer screens, so I will tell you if they work.
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I hope you went to an optometrist and had a proper eye exam. Picking reading glasses up without pro. advice can weaken your eyes further.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Colib and ilikecameras.
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Thanks Paul
Of course I went to an optic lab and have several vision test in order to get the proper adjustments for my glasses.
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Spending several years in the specialty optics industry (telescopes, microscopes, low vision patients, etc...) I can tell you that AR coating IS nice and DOES help with computer screens...
...but...
It is a real pain to keep clean.
Every bit of finger print or dust shows up and can sometimes be more a pain than glare.
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
My Blog[^]
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31 years of eyesight correction.  I am short-sighted - my right eye is -6.5 and my left -8.0. I have astigmatisms in both. Tempted by LASIK, but yet to take the plunge (scared they will either mess up the procedure or will make my sight better, but not good enough so I can throw my specs away!).
Switch from specs to gas permeable contacts in 1989. Now wearing 30-day disposable soft toric lenses (waaaaaaaaay more comfortable than GPs and easier to maintain).
I long to wake up and be able to see unaided.
The Rob Blog
Google Talk: robert.caldecott
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: -6.5 and my left -8.0
Crikey moses.
I am -2.5 and -3.0 which is bad enough IMO.
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: I long to wake up and be able to see unaided.
Do what my mom once did (she was 25 at the time); Get very drunk, fall into bed and wake up exclaiming "hallelujah I can see!" only to realise you forgot to take your contacts out the night before.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Colib and ilikecameras.
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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>Get very drunk, fall into bed and wake up exclaiming "hallelujah I can see!"
Ho ho. Been there, done that!  Woken up a few times with one lens in and the other ... well - could be anywhere. Hey, I even managed to put both contact lenses in the SAME eye one (the morning after the night before...). That was pretty trippy. Oh, I once spent 30 minutes trying to take a lens out that wasn't actually there. Ouch. That's the thing with GP lenses - they are very small and can shift position and end up right at the top of your eyeball. At least soft lenses cover most of the front of the eyeball - makes them less prone to slippage in my experience.
The Rob Blog
Google Talk: robert.caldecott
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: my right eye is -6.5 and my left -8.0. I have astigmatisms in both
Yes, I would say that -8 is around the point where they may not be able to correct it all. My wife was around a -6 and they told her there was a possibility that she would not be bale to get away without any glasses. Today she lives very well and darn near 20/20 in both eyes and loves it.
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
My Blog[^]
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I had Lasik done on both eyes 5 years ago. I was extremely near-sighted (-8.75, -9), with astigmatisms in both eyes. Less than 24 hours after the procedure, I was tested at 20/15 in one eye, 20/20+ in the other. My vision is still 20/20 5 years later.
Josh
Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have a back-ache...
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Yikes! Really? Wow. I might have to take the plunge. Hey, I can even pay for the operation by interest free credit...
The Rob Blog
Google Talk: robert.caldecott
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: Glasses since I was 3 years old...
wasn't the survey only asking for "eyesight damages caused by watching a computer screen all the day ??"
let me wonder on the fact that you were - even playing - sitted in front of an old atari/amstrad the whole day since the age of 3...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
[toxcct][VisualCalc]
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"How is sitting in front of a screen all day treating you?"
I think that includes both television and the ZX Spectrum I was glued to for most of my teens... 
The Rob Blog
Google Talk: robert.caldecott
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similar situation... since I was 5 - so about 20 years now. For a couple of years I wore soft lenses but now I find they irritate my eyes so I just wear them when I need to.
i'm seriously considering surgery tho. Looking at the other posts looks like most have great result.
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My eyesight started to fail after I'd started my first full time job as a developer. Whether it was the prolonged exposure to working with old fashioned VDU's, I'm not sure.
Back then I only needed them for driving, but I wore them always because I kept forgetting them.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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