re: Anyone here ever get Lasik?

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I was thinkn about it. I still will but a girl I know posed a question that made me question it.

She said how come those doctors never get the procedure themselves?

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Not everyone is a good candidate. One of the doctors I went to told me to wait 3 years for the technology to improve (namely "corneal cross-linking", a treatment for a condition called ectasia which can happen if you do LASIK on weird-shaped corneas like mine).

Luckily I went to see Dr. Shah at Ochsner Baptist, probably one of the best eye doctors (if not THE best eye doctor) in the state. He's the only one in the state doing the corneal cross-linking trial as it is, so he had no reservations at all doing the surgery.

(Also, I had PRK, not traditional LASIK. Slightly different procedure with a longer recovery time but may be the only option depending on your corneas.)