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Lasik eye surgery. I should have done it years ago. I would have saved so much fucking money on contacts and supplies.
How was your experience and how much did it cost? What was the recovery time like?
I would like to do it but I have no insurance and I’m a pussy.
The experience was great. I brought it up to my eye doc, because my wife thought it would be a good idea for my birthday, and her work was offering a discount from one of those roving lasik trucks. The doctor talked me out of that though. Basically when you do it that way, you pay less for the actual procedure, but you are responsible for all of the post op visits, and if you wind up having an emergency and need to go get corrective surgery it's all on you. So mine wound up being $3600 I think, after receiving a $1000 dollar discount for paying up front and not financing, but I think most reputable spots would have financing available. Most insurance probably wouldn't cover it anyway, since it is considered cosmetic, which seems odd to me, as it would probably save them a shit load of money as opposed to paying for your contacts and glasses every year. We have an HSA though that is usually always pretty close to being maxed out, so we used that.
Procedure itself takes maybe 20 minutes, with about 2-3 hours of pre-op prep. They cover your eyes with plastic post op, send you home with some light benzos to help you sleep for a few hours and when you wake up? Bam! You can see clearly. Hardest part is just leaving your eyes alone so you don't fuck things up.
On my first post op check with my regular eye doctor he told me a horror story to impress on me how important it was to throw out ALL of my all contact supplies. When he was a resident he had a patient that came back a week after his surgery because anytime he saw any light it just killed him. Day before it was fine. He couldn't possibly think of what happened. My doctor asked him to go step by step the day and night before and tell him what had happened. Apparently this guy went out drinking the night before with some buddies, then came home a little drunk and "took out his contacts". So yeah, there's that...
Anyways, it's great. I've had the same eye doctor for like 15 years and he's been hounding me to do this for like the last 10, since my prescription hasn't changed for almost 20 years. Wish I would have bitten the bullet sooner.