Reply #7: Laser eye surgery was one of the smartest things I ever did.

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I am extremely near-sighted...Contact lenses were -7.5! I had been wearing Contacts for 34 years, and my eyes were actually starting to deteriorate.

I chose to have the monovision done. The left eye is for reading and the right eye is for distance. It took about 6 weeks for my brain to adjust to that, but now both reading and distance are automatic. No reading glasses, and I am 53!

If someone is very near-sighted, the laser surgery does not take away the risk of detached retinas. I've had a hole in one retina and a tear and hemorrhage in the other, both corrected with emergency surgery.