Beats 20/20 vision for me (LASIK Treatments)

Member Name: doyoureally

Product:	LASIK Treatments
Date:	04/03/03 (560 review reads)
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Advantages: Professional Boots, Empathy, Lifechanging

Disadvantages: No substitute for reading up yourself, It can go wrong, Lifechanging

OK, firstly I have strived not to simply repeat what has already been covered but to provide my own perspective on Lasik. All the reviews here are excellent and should be read.

This is not because I am lazy - but because repetitive review serve no purpose and the best thing you can do if lasik interests you is get as many perspectives as possible alongside the facts.

That is the crux of my advice on lasik - you cannot read too much before you have it done.

I had lasik treatment at Boots in Regent Street 3 months ago.

Research
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I read and read and read before I decided to go forwards - many of the websites listed in other reviews here contain excellent information - there is also lot's of USA based history as they were ahead of the eight ball, as they say, for lasik .

I am so glad I did read because on the day - while I was naturally nervous about it going OK and a tad fearful of what is afterall surgery on my eyes (makes me squirm to consider it). The actual day I felt fine because I knew all I could and had rationalised in my head how I felt about all the possible outcomes.

Boots have a large book which post-lasik patiebnts have inscribed their feelings. Not all were positive - some clearly had not udnerstood the whole deal before they signed on the dotted line. but many were both uplifting and funny - like the guys who wanted to sell a pair of glasses - good condition and "genuine reason for sale".


Who chose to do the Surgery and why?
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Like a lot of people I chose Boots for a mixture of reasons:-

a) I felt like others that they would do it "properly" - from consulation to aftercare. they have too much brand-capital not to do so.
b) they used at the time and still I believe the most up to date techniques for measuring what is to be done and doing the surgery itself.
c) in opting to have surge

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y done - not only do you want thebest results but you want the best experience of the surgery itself
d) they were reassuringly a little more expensive than the others - I know I can't believe I wrote that myself - but you get only 2 eyes so have the best you can find.


On the Day
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- Make sure someone you can trust comes and gets you
- Be patient there is no rush. You will want to sleep /close you eyes afterwards
- Take the drops exactly as prescribed and don't miss out - an infection is not worth it
- Don't go down the pub and get knoecked in the eye - you have the rest of your life to enjoy it.


It is hard to know where to stop - but lasik has changed my life.

No it has not made me happier (but I do smile every morning when I draw back the curtains.) - I was happy anyay.

It does make life easier - although I wish I could tell my brain after 37 years if porr vision that I do not need to hunt for my glasses or worry that there are no lens legft in the bathrroom cabinet.

In summary - research - do some more -consider the positive and negative outcomes -then go with your heart - do it or don't but make a decision and live with it.

From one of the lucky ones!

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