med student here - is lasik or prk ok?

[Guest]

i have nearsightedness, like -3.0 both eyes, thinking about doing lasik or prk to forever rid of my annoying glasses... BUT research is telling me that nearsighted people like myself see things close-up better and clear w/o glasses as I age, BUT if i get surgeries with PRK, this thing called presbyopia after i turn 40, will not get better! i am looking at Dr. Ben Carson and other neurosurgeons still wear glasses, so i don't want to get lasik or prk and then regret 20 years later because i cannot see good closeup while doing brain surgery, which means i will be a bad surgeon! a dilemma...any neurosurgeons here who did PRK and still no regret? if lasik/prk will hinder performance as a neurosurgeon, no brainer i will not do it, even if it means i continue look ugly in my glasses rest of my life of course!

[Focus]

IMO don't fuck with your eyes, or at least not until you have juicy disability insurance. Shop around until you find a contact brand you like and can wear for 12 hours+. You can always get loopes that have clear lenses.

[Guest]

Totally agree with this. LASIK supposedly has a 0.3% complication rate or something like that, but if your eyes are messed up —> you can’t operate. Have glasses myself and yeah they’re annoying to change between loupes and glasses, but if takes like a minute for the circulator to help you out. Don’t risk your vision.

[Guest]

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/fashion/13SKIN.html

“The 12 patients I talked with all reported feeling as I did, gaslighted. They said they kept telling their doctors that they couldn’t see, and that their doctors kept telling them that they could….

Meanwhile, I walk by eyeglass shops and wish I needed to go inside.”

Have things changed much with lasik since then?