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Zingoleb:
LASIK is something I'm seriously interested in for the future (I'm legally blind, but otherwise I have healthy eyes, so I'm probably a pretty good candidate. I like seeing things past my nose!).

How did it feel? Could you see something coming towards your eye, was there any discomfort (physically or emotionally)?

Redball:
I haven't had Lasik, but I have had some laser surgery in the eyes related to glaucoma. No pain, no anxiety.

Zingoleb:
But you don't understand - I'm practically made of anxiety. I'm a bundle of anxiety loosely held together by scarves and glitter.

Redball:
Well, a more specific answer to your question, there was no discomfort, physically or emotionally.
Is your bundle penetrable by someone else's experience? It helped me to cope with my anxiety about an upcoming event to hear, not that I have nothing to worry about, or that I shouldn't worry, but that the person speaking to me has experienced the event that worries me, and come out the other side unscathed.
It helped me get through Army basic training half a century ago, for example. Millions of men, my father included, had undergone an almost identical experience. Or a stent a few years ago. It helped to know that the laser treatment would take a minute or two, and why I need not be concerned about moving my eyes during the treatment (I forget whether I'd be immobilized, whether it was easy to control or that maybe it didn't matter whether I did or not).
My experience with laser treatment isn't the same as Lasik. But millions of people have experienced Lasik, and to my limited knowledge, the unhappy experiences were not with the sensations but with the outcomes.

ackblom12:
Yeah, no pain in the least. The only discomfort I recall was when they use a small vacuum on your eye to stop blood flow and such, and that was just pressure, a couple seconds of total blindness in the eye and then it goes back to normal. You can't "see" the LASER go into your eye.

As far as bad experiences with it, yeah, mostly it has to do with people being disappointed with their results. One of the things overly optimistic people don't understand is you may not get 20/20 vision out of it. It'll be better than what you had, but it's not guaranteed to be "normal" vision. Of course, I ended up with 20/15 after being borderline legally blind and with a fairly intense stigmatism, so hey. Also, your eyes are still going to deteriorate same as anyone else's with age, so you won't have that nice vision forever, but it's wonderful in the years of good sight, especially after wearing coke bottle glasses most of my life up to then.

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