WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GET LASER EYE SURGERY | Advanced Surface Ablation (ASA) 

Im getting ASA tommarow, your the first video i could find on it that wasnt PRK. im doing it the start of spring break becuse all the normal PRk videos had me freaked out, but your video is amazing and it makes me feel sooo much better about tommarow

Thank you for sharing this video. I will have this ASA done on my left eye on the 16th, less than two wks. from now. Your sharing helped calm me down as to what it would be like. Glad your vision is amazing now!!!

Thanks for sharing. Clearly there isn't much info out there on the internet about ASA procedure. I'll be going under the laser in 2 days and your video has helped me prepare mentally. I'll make a video of my procedure too just so that more people could use it.

Thanks for posting this!

Any regrets two years later? I have a similar prescription as you but am so scared of complications!

Good morning happy Friday and all your best wishes and you are amazing Supporter and yes you are grateful

Thank you for this video. I really wanted to see the procedure instead of the animated, disembodied eyeball. Thanks! I feel a LOT less nervous about it now.

Congratulations on your lasik surgery, young lady! Do you have any issues with dry eye and/or halos/starbursts at night? One or both seems like a common theme for some people who have had the surgery.

I got ASA surgery on may 4th and I’ve had 3-4 corneal abrasions since then and the dr has been having me on contacts. Did you get these complications?

your eyes still feeling good now ?

As a former optician I think lasik as well as all of the other forms of laser surgery is one of the best advances for vision to come about in the last 25 years. Especially for someone with poor eyesight such as your eyesight was. I'm not really in favor of lasik when it's mainly for cosmetic reasons which is the case much too often. Those with prescription less than -2.00 should stay with glasses and contacts in my opinion. But for someone that has a prescription of R -7.50 / L -7.25 even though you look really cute wearing glasses, You were really quite blind without your glasses or contacts. Do you mind be asking your age when you had your surgery? I'm asking that because you look quite young and maybe barely over 18. That's the minimum age for getting any form of laser surgery. And the main reason they won't do it on anyone younger is because your eyesight is often still changing. So do you remember ho long it was before you had your surgery that you last needed your glasses and contact prescriptions increased? Normally it's at least 12 months and some even require it to be 18 months without any change in vision. If your eyes were still in the changing process it would mean your wonderful perfect vision could slowly continue regressing and you would be back wearing glasses again. Now of nowhere near as strong as your previous glasses were at least. So how long were you told to not wear your contacts before surgery? Generally it's at least two weeks of no contacts. The reason for that is because contacts form a ridge or groove around them where they sit on your corneas and they need the ridge to flatten out and be smooth again. Considering how much they charge for those types of surgeries you would think they would provide you with a sunglass clip for your glasses rather than those silly looking ones that's supposed to fit over your glasses. They have to know that everyone leaving will be wearing glasses so a sunglass clip would be so much better. They clearly didn't fit well over your glasses. Anyway as expected your eyesight the following day was less than perfect but considerably better than it would have been without glasses. Considering you were on drugs and a bit high you were only in a nice mellow sort of mood. The googles were quite an improvement from the sunglasses they previously gave you to wear. You look a little like a bug wearing them. If you still weren't able to see yourself in your viewfinder I'm lad you had your dad drive you rather than you try driving. Actually your drivers license has glasses as a restriction so until your doctor gives you a card showing that you have had eye surgery and no longer need glasses to drive your still considered as being restricted to wearing glasses. Of course you wouldn't be able to see anything with your glasses on now. Everything would be as blurry wearing your glasses as it was without your glasses before. The type of surgery you had is actually considered safer than lasik, but it also is slower in recovery time. So it took longer for your eyesight to fully recover. So after your contacts were removed and the doctor examined your eyes what was your vision acuity? I mean how well were you able to see the eyechart? Perfect is generally considered as being 20/20 but with lasik it's generally better than that and at around 20/15 or even 20/10. They intentionally try to over correct in case of any slight regression to keep you at no worse than 20/20. With that type of surgery were you given any type of life time warranty? I know with lasik they offer a "touch-up" in case your eyesight should regress enough to require having surgery done again. But what they don't often mention is that doing it again is far more risky than the first time. In order to keep the warranty valid you need to get your eyes examined every 12 months so since you had your surgery on January 6th 2022 you were due to get your eyes examined last month. Were you still at 20/20 or better? Also something else you should know about. Your still very young and most likely some young man is going to come along and want you to be his wife. Usually that means starting a family. Needless to say I'm sure you have seen the changes a woman's body goes through during pregnancy. Most of which will return to normal after she has her baby. One of those things that is effected at least 50%of the time is her eyesight. It's also one thing that doesn't return to normal. So for those young ladies that already wear glasses it only means a change in their prescription and new glasses. But for those young ladies that always had perfect vision or in your cases had their eyesight returned to being perfect again they will now be wearing glasses. Your surgery won't stop your eyes from being changed so you will have at least a 50% chance of having to wear glasses again. Now the good news is the change in vision is usually less than -1.25 and often only around -.75 or -1.00 meaning that your eyesight would still be quite good just not perfect anymore. You would only need to wear glasses part time. mainly for driving. Oh I forgot to mention that it only effects your distance vision. that's because of the stretching of your eyes during pregnancy and the stretching of the eyes is what causes nearsightedness. now this has gotten quite long. But if you would like to hear how PRK was discovered I would be happy to tell you. But like so many other things it was discovered literally by accident.

I'm about to go get ASA done to my eyes probably next week. Yours was done 10 months ago and i would like to ask how's your eyes now? Any discomfort or anything?

I had ASA two weeks now and one drop of steroids a day plus I lubricant a lot but was seeing really well far away as well and now everything is very blurry when reading. When did you feel your vision was really well? Like how many weeks?

So now almost a year later, any down sides besides what you already mentioned?

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I'd be wearing those goggles all the time they look bad ass