Dailies Contact Lenses

I'm 59 years old, I wear contacts, (multi-focal) mostly to correct near sightness. Is lasik surgery for me?

I've tried mono vision contacts and can't adjust to them. Ins't lasik surgery correction using this same method, one eye correcting my distance and one eye corrected to read? I don't know if I should risk the operation, my correction is +1.75 and +1.50

Public Comments

1. What's wrong with glasses? I'm not a fan of the lasik fashionable trend.
2. Yes they would either do a mono vision correction on you or just correct for distance leaving you needing reading glasses. They will often get people to trial monovision contacts before the surgery to see if they can adapt. If you couldn't adapt before I don't know if Lasik surgery would be for you.
3. Without seeing you and examining you, no one can actually say it depends on lots of things. There is a pre-examination done with high-precision equipment and it is free mostly everywhere. it helps determine if you are a candidate to receive laser surgery. You will also have to read a big document explaining it and all, but ask your eye surgeon beforehand how it's going to be done so it'll help you remove your stress over the operation. It's very quick and you need to not move your eye while it is being treated with laser. *** Would I do it with -1.75 and -1.5 ---> No i would not. There is not much risk in the operation itself but your eyes may feel dry after the operation (and to a very high percentage of people that have received the operation), this causes your eyes to be blurry and not see as well, so the idea of going for an operation for such little prescription, my idea is no. They may provide you with a temporary or permanent solution, but it need to be put in your eyes in order to stimulate the tears. You may also be quite fine, or can be okay using "good drops" without all the medical thing aspecially anything with cortison or over the counter prescription for more then a few days because it is no good for anyone. I've worked in a pharmacy for ove a year 1/2 but it's been quite a while, but my operation dates from 2 years ago almost... and still my eyes are a bit dry, although moslty ok. I had -6.75 and -6.25... Would i do it again ? In a flat second, because I've been living with this condition for close to 30 years. Also, there is myopie and presbytie. I believe now they can trest both at the same time now a days. Take your time to make an enlightened decision. How much time do you wear your glasses, do is give you headaches when you don't, ... Be well, Daniel - massagesante2005@yahoo.com
4. PLUS (+) rx's are not awesome in lasik...ESPECIALLY if you've already failed in monovision. lasik is better suited for non-presbyopic nearsightedness. sounds like you're the opposite of that: presbyopic farsightedness (with previous failure in monovision!)
5. At 59 you are going to eventually have cataract surgery. As you want to limit the number of times you invade your ocular tissues, you might consider just having Cataract surgery with an implant that gives you distance vision. At this time it's called refractive lens exchange or some other label. Lasik and Lasek fool with the cornea, the ocular surface which is your barrier against all those dust and pollen and pet dander and.... don't mess with it. If the above is your distance Rx, you are slightly far sighted and you'd LOVE the difference when you get the cataract Rx. You don't need to have A CATARACT to get it removed. The surgery is the same and this we KNOW how to do as it's the most common surgical procedure done in the USA. It can be done for refractive reasons too.