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Waist of Money - Canada

Not Worth It
Spent: $2,000 in Canada

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Posted 10 Sep 2010

I was 40 years of age. I was near sighted. I needed glasses for distance, such as, driving my car at night or going to the movies, or looking across the floor where I work to see who was calling me. I had an annoying habit of putting my glasses on and taking them off all the time just to see.

I wanted out of thoes glasses. When you go for lasiks they have you sign a waver sighting lasiks eye surgery could cause a list of about 10 problems. One of those draw backs is it can aggrevate presbyopia. In other words you end up needing glass to see up close. Only I found out that ends up being worse then wearing glasses just for distance.

You end up wearing glasses all the time. You live in the up close world. You need the close up vision to do dishes or to put on eye make up or pull a loose eye lash out of your eye. I still had to wear glasses just a different kind and now all the time. Eventually the gains I made in distance gave way to bifocals. I now wear bifocals all the time. What a big waste of money.

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My Doctor: name not provided

The provider over booked this proceedure. They were trying to get patients to come back the next do or so to get the treatment. I traveled a long distance to be seen so I declined. My mistake, because it was 9:30 almost 10:00 at night before recieved the surgery. Maybe that could have contributed to my negative experience.

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Tom at RealSelf (Community Manager) 11 Sep 2010

Do you blame the doctor or the actual LASIK procedure for your unhappy outcome? Thank you for sharing.

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