I had LASIK on the 19th March. I have wanted to get it done for years and years but I wasn't old enough. I finally did it this year and it was great! I definitely recommend it. It was so simple and easy. I feel like I have been fixed!
I wore glasses from the age of 10. At age 13 I got contact lenses. And now at 22 I don't need them anymore.

I have glasses and have been wearing them since I was around 5. Ive tried contacts and didn't like them and the lasik surgery scares me as I am an artist so I need my vision. Im a scaredy cat ^^'

Wow that is so awesome, lunanuova:! If you don't mind my asking, are you experiencing any side effects from it? I heard that some people could get dry eyes or see spots and things along those lines

I want to get lasik someday

salvete: No, everything is fine! In the following week after I had very minimal in-and-out of focus blurriness but nothing to worry about, it went away without me noticing. The only thing no-one told me was that your eyes might bruise from the small clamp they put in your eye to keep it open. I do bruise easily though! A month later I still have faint marks on the whites of my eyes but it will be gone soon. In terms of dryness, I used to wear contact lenses so every morning I would put in a contact which with it came some sterile fluid which probably acted like an eye drop, so the dryness in the morning that I am having now could be exaggerated by the fact I no longer use contact fluid. So really the only time they feel dry is the moment I wake up.
I think when people say there are certain negative side effects that they are actually pretty rare. On the whole, most have great vision and no problems. I'd say go for it! [yes]

Thank you so much lunanuova for sharing about your experience <3

I've been wearing glasses since I was 7 but needed them sooner.
My first sentence was, no! I don't see it.
I have worn contacts but these days I can't really afford contacts and glasses r much easier.

Getting to the glasses party a little late. But I have glasses. They're these purple square frame ones. I like them, but I don't love them. But I can't find a pair that i'm completely in love with forever and ever. that i can afford anyways....

I'm completely (practically) blind without my glasses, i can't see my hand in front of my face unless its really close. Er. I can, its just incredibly blurry. My husband thinks he has bad vision until he puts on my glasses , swears and makes some comment about how he doesn't understand how I don't run into MORE things when i don't have my glasses on. Than he forgets and wonders why i can't read his facial expression when he makes faces at me when my glasses are off. lol

But as for contacts. I'd really love to be able to wear them again, but I haven't worn them in years, and I think I look funny without glasses now, I've gotten so used to having glasses.

Inspiration; You'd be perfect for LASIK (unless you are over -10 prescription) I think you'd really feel the benefit loads. I understand what you mean, I could never see peoples facial expressions unless they were right up next to me ha!

i have no idea what my prescription is.... how bad is that. xD i just let the eye doctor do their stuff and i pay and get new glasses. i'm the worst eye patient ever. hahaha

Inspiration - Sounds like your vision is as bad as mine [lol]

Quite possibly? i remember it used to be 20 - 30 or soemthing like that. but i may have had glasses on? or hadn't needed them yet at the time.

I've been wearing glasses since I was a child. I need them because I'm long sighted and have a lazy eye. Without them anything in front of me is a blurry mess.

wait so you can see things that are really far away with no problem? that's kind of awesome.

I used to have glasses, but i don't need them to see, I just have slightly poor vision in one eye. I had to get them for one semester in school cuz this jerk of a teacher refused to accommodate me and made me sit in the back of the classroom because that was 'his seating chart'. What I do have to wear almost all of the time is a pair of shades because I have severe light sensitivity when it comes to florescent lights, the sun, and well pretty much any light in general. If I don't walk outside with my shades on I'm basically blind! I don't technically have a prescription for my shades, but that's only because I haven't been to the eye doctor in about 4 years. I will be going there soon though and will definitely get a prescription for shades.

Ah shades. That can be rough... I tried to go that route but a few teachers would force me to keep them off, so I couldn't see and couldn't do my work cause I'm almost legally blind without glasses after 1ft

Same for me when it came to school, I would get in trouble all the time for putting my head down in class because I had a headache; and none of them ever seemed to care. I would ask them all the time if they could turn the lights down but they always said it would make people fall asleep. Well having the lights too bright makes me what to close my eyes!

Some of them wouldn't let me wear shades because they claimed it was to cover up being high or hungover, and im just like WTF, why the hell would I come to school like that?

Thankfully in college no one cares what the hell you wear.

come into school. like.. high school high/hungover? who does that o.O

oh well. maybe some people but not me. xD I waited to drink until it was legal which was a couple years out of high school. But i'm really sorry about the light blindess. mine isn't that severe. But I do need shades outside. even in the winter if its to bright out >.>my eyes are sensitive to light as well. and I tend to not turn lights on in my house all day long until after the sun has set. But i can see really good in the dark :D

Last time I got an eye exam was when I was 18, and I got glasses for distances and a slight astigmatism. I hardly ever wore those glasses though, and I know that my eyesight has gotten worse since then. I do well enough most of the time, but not if I have to read something at a distance, like road signs, so I need to get a new pair of glasses for driving. (I don't have a license, but I need to get one, and will undoubtedly need new glasses for that.)

I can see really good in the dark too! And my electric bill is super cheap haha (I almost never turn on a light, I use a mini reading lamp to read, oona those clip on ones)

Once i'm out of my parents house again my electric bill will probably be down a bit. except for the fact that we have a tv and video gamse and computers. xD

So very true, but at least we are saving the environment just a little by not turning on so many lights like some people do.

Inspiration - Considering where I live... that would be most of my school population probably has done drugs.

Mercy/Inspi - Having the lights off for the most part is nice. Though lots of things to stub your toes on here o.o

most people in my high school didn't do drugs while they were high school

I don't know what they did once in college

doesn't matter if i have the lights on or not. i'm gonna stub my toes . or bang an elbow. or a kneee... or a hip. i run into things alot. i am covered in bruises. xD

Oh dear Inspiration, do we need to call someone about that abusive furniture?