Hi Ruth, as someone who is having my laser eye surgery done next week, I've read all your posts about your Laser Quest about ten times now. I am quite scared, as you can imagine, and I have two quick questions: 1) Why did you do LASIK and not SMILE? 2) How long did it take until you were allowed to wear makeup again? Thank you! 🥰
I had lasik ten years ago. Best decision ever. Only now are my eyes starting to deteriorate again and I may need reading glasses in the next few years. But I don’t think I’ll ever need distance glasses again.
The dryness and the blurry vision when going from inside to outside, as you described, rectified themselves for me, after around 12- 18 months.
I got blepharitis from wearing my contact lenses for too long. I gave up wearing them as the optician said I had red eye. Changed into using varifocals. I have to keep an eye on the blepharitis and I have a microwavable heat pad to soften the crusty bits in amongst your eyelashes and then either children's no tears shampoo on a cotton bud or you can buy special blepharitis cleanser on a cotton pad.
It does get better if you treat it but can return with central heating and dry atmospheres.
I would never have given up wearing my lenses I loved them but I wasn't working and didn't have to use the computer so they went
I had laser eye surgery in the early 00s…for the first two years I felt similarly superhuman without anything but a little dryness. I’m sorry to report that did not last though and my eyeballs slowly began to revert and I was back in corrective lenses full time in three years albeit at a vastly reduced prescription. Fast forward two decades and it’s like I never did it at all and I have all the same issues with presbyopia that most older people develop. I could have had a revision, but who knows how many times that is safe. Given it only lasted a couple of years, I am leaving well enough alone.
Three years isn’t enough, is it? For the hassle and expense. I have been predicted a good run without the need for glasses (unless it’s tiny tiny writing) but time will tell!
Hi Ruth, as someone who is having my laser eye surgery done next week, I've read all your posts about your Laser Quest about ten times now. I am quite scared, as you can imagine, and I have two quick questions: 1) Why did you do LASIK and not SMILE? 2) How long did it take until you were allowed to wear makeup again? Thank you! 🥰
I had lasik ten years ago. Best decision ever. Only now are my eyes starting to deteriorate again and I may need reading glasses in the next few years. But I don’t think I’ll ever need distance glasses again.
The dryness and the blurry vision when going from inside to outside, as you described, rectified themselves for me, after around 12- 18 months.
I got blepharitis from wearing my contact lenses for too long. I gave up wearing them as the optician said I had red eye. Changed into using varifocals. I have to keep an eye on the blepharitis and I have a microwavable heat pad to soften the crusty bits in amongst your eyelashes and then either children's no tears shampoo on a cotton bud or you can buy special blepharitis cleanser on a cotton pad.
It does get better if you treat it but can return with central heating and dry atmospheres.
I would never have given up wearing my lenses I loved them but I wasn't working and didn't have to use the computer so they went
Oh my God hi Mum! 🤣 I didn’t realise that was you. Must be my eyesight failing…
I’ve bought some of that special wash! It’s quite good. I like it more than my eye makeup remover, almost. As a little freshening after-cleanse!
I had laser eye surgery in the early 00s…for the first two years I felt similarly superhuman without anything but a little dryness. I’m sorry to report that did not last though and my eyeballs slowly began to revert and I was back in corrective lenses full time in three years albeit at a vastly reduced prescription. Fast forward two decades and it’s like I never did it at all and I have all the same issues with presbyopia that most older people develop. I could have had a revision, but who knows how many times that is safe. Given it only lasted a couple of years, I am leaving well enough alone.
Three years isn’t enough, is it? For the hassle and expense. I have been predicted a good run without the need for glasses (unless it’s tiny tiny writing) but time will tell!