How did the Lasik surgery work for you Bike.....my wife and I have been discussing it recently....any tips?I have had Lasik surgery on both eyes and all headlights seem bright to me.The ones that are aftemarket are even brighter.
There should be some kind of restriction on light brightness.
Since you asked - Lasik surgery was fairly painless.
The good - I don't need contacts or glasses to see any more.
The bad news - now I must use glasses to read.
Before I wore glasses all the time, except to read, then I took the glasses off.
Now- I put glasses on to read anything closer than a couple of feet.
The reason I did it was so that I didn't need to wear contacts when I play sports (I am a diehard ice hockey player).
It works for my intended reason, but now I have a pair of glasses in every car I drive and also in all my rooms in the house.
Before the glasses were on my face, now I have to put them on.
I buy off-the-shelf glasses, so they are fairly inexpensive.
My farsight is greatly improved - hence the light brightness at night.
I have amazed people with how far I can see things -
but I am also handicapped by the fact that I can't read very fine print unless I use strong reading glasses.
That's how it is - that's how I live.
Hope this helps.
As far as tips - it depends on how bad your eyes are now.
My Lasik was 13 seconds on the left eye and 15 seconds on the right. My eyes weren't too bad.
I have heard of people going almost a full minute under the laser. You have to watch the red dot and stay motionless.
Your eyes are already numbed (just a drop or two of something in the eye) and the laser will turn off, if you move.
It is computer controlled, based on many photos of your eyes. Targeted like a guided missile.
A slight smell of burning flesh as laser makes contact (not too bad for my short duration).
My wife would have done it also, but she has a stigmatism - not everybody qualifies as a good candidate for it.
Also - the military paid for it, not me. Compliments of U.S. Air Force medical. It was a deal for me!