Where are my four eyed fellows at?

oldopelguy wrote: If you don't know about Zenni Optical, you should look them up now. For the same $ you spend on a set of glasses at your local vision place you can order up 8-10 pairs of cheap glasses for specialty use. Once a year or so I'll order half a dozen pair of prescription sunglasses or safety glasses or funky frames. Then I can just leave sunglasses in the cars or safety goggles by the welder or motorcycle and just have them when I need them. I already have some haloing and glare issues at night and if they got worse, and since they are potential side effects of Lasik they could, I would be completely unable to drive at night. I'm not comfortable with the risk.

Me either. Messing with my glasses is a tiny inconvenience compared to that.

Curmudgeon wrote: A good friend had lasik done because (like me) he didn't like wearing glasses or contacts while riding dirt bikes. (If you ride with contacts and get sand in your goggles, you'll understand why. Glasses fog like a bitch too.) Anyway, his was a good deal less than successful; not only did he still have to wear glasses (seems there is a limit to just how much correction is possible) his night vision crashed and he says he sees rainbow rings around streetlights etc. He did say the doc warned him of these possible side effects beforehand, they are not very common but they do happen. Me, I don't want to live the rest of my life with my eyes more screwed up than they are so I will gladly be 'four eyes'.

some people, maybe even most get good to great to fantastic results from Lasik surgery (anecdotal: buddy of mine, with ~ 20/400 vision … his went nearly perfectly … after surgery 20/10 ..) but that was 14 - 18 yrs ago …he now needs reading glasses

I'm glad I got the surgery, if for no other reason than 10+ yrs, and still counting, of being able to buy cheap sunglasses LOL

I do wish the results had been better … I also experience the starburst effect surrounding street lights, headlights ..etc .. while driving, Lasik also exacerbates any dry eye problems you have (there is a similar surgery that doesn't do this ..something to do with cutting/not cutting some nerves)

but all in all, I still glad I had the surgery

If we can autocross with our sun glasses on and be completely unaware of them... then we can certainly get used to them overall. I leave my regular glasses off except for driving. (Since we are 3 pages in I assume some one has said it, but Katie, the glasses in your avatar look good.)