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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > TELL me about LASIK!
 
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Mr. Eric Praline
Aug 13, 2004
I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.

Praesil posted:

Let me rephrase the question:

Other than flap vs no flap, and PRK having a longer recovery time, are there any differences besides cost?

Edit: VV Awesome. I could never tell if there were any outcome differences. I've got a consultation coming up and hopefully I can get my eyes sliced open soon.

Not /quite/. I had PRK. I practice martial arts, and the Dr. felt that no-flap was safer due to that.

No flap isn't exactly something to dismiss outright, since the flap introduces a lot of complications. OTOH, no-flap has it's own set. Mainly corneal hazing, but that's about as rare as flap complications if you take care while healing.

JGTheSpy posted:

I could deal with a couple days of pain for the comfort of never having to think about that.
PRK's recovery pain goes away in a couple days, but your vision quality may fluctuate for up to around 6 months.

My experience: Week 1, I was perfect but painful 20/20. Week 2 to month 3, it randomly went from ~20/30 to 20/60 on a daily basis. (but always WAY better than before) I was worried that it was hosed up for a lot of that time.

I was perfectly functional the whole time, since it was *so* much better. But it was kind of unnerving. Around month 4, it stabilized, and I've been 20/15 for the last 3 years. My Dr. said my experience was entirely typical of PRK, but she's seen the whole range from instantly fine to taking 9 months to stabilize.

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