I have decided to go for my Lasik surgery. My feeling is confused. I feel scary but happy with excited. Scary is the portion on surgery and the side effect. Everybody knows that if a failure surgery will caused to blindness….. and will live in the dark for the rest of the life. Happy with excited is the successful surgery will lead to better eyesight and don’t need to wear glasses or contact lens until I got the “lau hua”. But not all people will get “lua hua” as well. I can happily go for my sports, yoga and other activities, without a “obstruction” on my face. Save up all the money on glasses, contact lens and solution each year.
I heard about Laisk since 8 years back from my cousin. She did one eye by the other. During that time, the technology was not as advance as now. Microkeratome (Blade) was used during that time, and when you heard about blade surgery. People will tend to back off. The price is another factor, it cost about S$2000 – S$3000 for each eye. And there were limitation as well, if your degree power was higher than 600, you are still not able to have a perfect eyesight. That means you still need to wear a pair of glasses / contact lens. Just that the power will be lower that’s all.
But now, technology is so advance that all the above cons point are no longer there. In the recent year Intralase (blade free) was introduced to the market. To know more about the different between Microkeratome you may click into this link
I heard about Laisk since 8 years back from my cousin. She did one eye by the other. During that time, the technology was not as advance as now. Microkeratome (Blade) was used during that time, and when you heard about blade surgery. People will tend to back off. The price is another factor, it cost about S$2000 – S$3000 for each eye. And there were limitation as well, if your degree power was higher than 600, you are still not able to have a perfect eyesight. That means you still need to wear a pair of glasses / contact lens. Just that the power will be lower that’s all.
But now, technology is so advance that all the above cons point are no longer there. In the recent year Intralase (blade free) was introduced to the market. To know more about the different between Microkeratome you may click into this link
http://www.lsc.sg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=
The price is no longer so steep. Each eye will cost about S$1200 to S$2000, almost half the price to last time. Furthermore, if your degree power is more than 600, you are still unable to get perfect eyesight. Right now, the technology could surgery up to 1000+ degree power. It is a very precise machine. The best part / worst part as well is it can do both eyes in one operation. Hehe….. The best part is you can save your time, one stone kill 2 birds. Don’t need to wait for a week later and then go through the whole painful process again. The worst part is if the surgery fail, the chances of getting 2 eyes to be blind is higher. HAHA….. think about it is quite scary also.
The price is no longer so steep. Each eye will cost about S$1200 to S$2000, almost half the price to last time. Furthermore, if your degree power is more than 600, you are still unable to get perfect eyesight. Right now, the technology could surgery up to 1000+ degree power. It is a very precise machine. The best part / worst part as well is it can do both eyes in one operation. Hehe….. The best part is you can save your time, one stone kill 2 birds. Don’t need to wait for a week later and then go through the whole painful process again. The worst part is if the surgery fail, the chances of getting 2 eyes to be blind is higher. HAHA….. think about it is quite scary also.
Right now, the risk of undergo this surgery is 1:10000.
But anyway decision made. I had opt for 2 eyes at one go (as the package is in this way now). After listen to the forum, you understand more about it and automatically it helps to build up the confidence with the clinic, doctors, nurses, machines and technologies. There are 3 speakers and they are doctors and one of them is quite famous, his name is Marc Tay. Normally, a doctor will do 5000 case a year, but he is doing 10000 over cases a year..... wow....... But that means he hit 1:10000 ratio is higher lor...... (hope u get it).
But anyway decision made. I had opt for 2 eyes at one go (as the package is in this way now). After listen to the forum, you understand more about it and automatically it helps to build up the confidence with the clinic, doctors, nurses, machines and technologies. There are 3 speakers and they are doctors and one of them is quite famous, his name is Marc Tay. Normally, a doctor will do 5000 case a year, but he is doing 10000 over cases a year..... wow....... But that means he hit 1:10000 ratio is higher lor...... (hope u get it).
The doctor that are going to do surgery for me is Dr Yap. Although most people preferred Marc Tay, but because I do not have preferred doctor, so they appointed Dr Yap for me. I quite like this doctor too....... from the way he speak, you can feel the clamness on him...... I just feel comfortable.......
Ok. Right now, what I need to make decision is to opt for Microkeratome : blade but faster process about 15 mins, 0.38% sucess rating or Intralase : blade free but longer process about 20 mins, 100% sucess rating. Doctor still suggests Mircokeratome is good enough; most people still choose this traditional way of doing it and it had been in the market for more than 10 years. And Intralase is only a 2-3 years technology…….. hehe….. so which one do you think I should choose? Hum….. that can decide later when I do my operation that day. Tell you later which one I choose OK…. Keke…..
Ok. Right now, what I need to make decision is to opt for Microkeratome : blade but faster process about 15 mins, 0.38% sucess rating or Intralase : blade free but longer process about 20 mins, 100% sucess rating. Doctor still suggests Mircokeratome is good enough; most people still choose this traditional way of doing it and it had been in the market for more than 10 years. And Intralase is only a 2-3 years technology…….. hehe….. so which one do you think I should choose? Hum….. that can decide later when I do my operation that day. Tell you later which one I choose OK…. Keke…..
The reason why I choose to go for Lasik is because of my friend. She went for it last year Aug / Sep. She updated me on the technology now. Then I think back, since 8 years back my cousin did it till now, there were no side effects. The technology is better now, so it would be safer too.
So on 30 May, I called up and make appointment for the forum on 06 Jun evening.
After listen to the doctor explanation, I book for a eye evaluation the next day, 07 Jun morning. For just an eye evaluation, it will take about 3 hours time to finish it. So after that, I straight away book appointment on 27 Jun (the best date I can have in this month).
Ok……. So now what I need to do is to wait for the day to come…… a brighter day waiting for me…….. happy….. happy….happy...... I will tell you how I feel after the surgery.
Wish me ALL the best..... Yesh....... Ah Lian! JIA YOU! JIA YOU! JIA YOU! Hoooosh........
The above pic is from Google Images, it is the steps of Microkeratome.
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