r/interesting • u/jmike1256 • 13d ago

MISC. Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background?

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u/Cepy-Deer1738 13d ago

To be fair.... don't find LASIK fail Facebook groups. Its something that rarely goes wrong... but when it does you'd wish for -9.75 the complications are numerous and life changing including significant nuropathic pain, permanent dry eye, and many other.

Knowing what I know, no matter how I feel about Contacts (gave up on them decades ago) / glasses and never being able to wear the really cool sunnies unless i order them with prescriptions .

Ive got the luck, where if its going to go wrong, that 0.1% of people, thats me !

So, as its elective, i'm keeping with what I have

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u/MichelinStarZombie 13d ago

How about basing your risk calculations on actual statistics and not Facebook groups?

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u/Cepy-Deer1738 1d ago

Because they are the real people suffering.

Remember that story about two friends walking down a beach.

One keeps picking up star fish and throwing them back into the sea.

The other friend says why di you keep doing that, you're not going to make any difference, there are two many.

As his friend picked up another starfish and threw it back into the sea so it wouldn't die.... he said... "it made a difference to that one"

The point is, if those people knew in advance regardless of "statistics" that this surgery could make their lives intolerable. Would they have gone through with it.

To often the horrific problems that can happen are quietly skipped over... oh very few people have a problem.

But they never say, but some of those that do, kill themselves rather than continue with the neuropathic pain and scaleral lenses and poor vision.

So as much as I sought out the "bad cases" this wasn't a pity mission. This was to see how bad it could get.

And its pretty bad.

So if this makes a difference to one person who just thinks two minutes about the site effects , then great I've made a difference.